Bonnie Grice

Jazz Host

For over 20 years, Bonnie Grice has programmed some of the most listened-to music on public radio stations across the country.

She hosted her first live talk show at WMUB in Oxford, Ohio, while pursuing a Master's Degree in Mass Communications at Miami University. She was the fine arts editor and daily music host at WKSU in Kent and then the morning drive host and producer/host of a weekly arts magazine for KUSC in Los Angeles.

Bonnie's tenure as producer/announcer in public radio includes WNYC in New York, WGBH in Boston, WPCX/WCWP in Long Island plus a variety of commercial stations including KKGO in Los Angeles and its sister station in San Francisco.

Currently Bonnie freelances as a host/producer for National Public Radio (NPR).

Bonnie leads a busy life outside of radio. She is a librettist and author. In July 1993, the two-act chamber opera, Mrs. Dalloway, for which Bonnie wrote the libretto based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, had its critically-acclaimed world premiere by Lyric Opera Cleveland (music by Libby Larsen). And in the fall of 1994, Bonnie wrote the book From Z to A- A Classical Lover's Alternative, a guide to the great composers, from Zappa to John Adams.

Bonnie is also a flutist and an aspiring singer. She's spent some time in the theatre as both actor and producer. Plus, she's an avid fan of football and fast cars.