Victor Bumbalo is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced worldwide and translated into five languages. He is the recipient of an Ingram Merrill Award for playwriting. He was awarded a fellowship to Bennington College where he received his M.A. His play, Niagara Falls, followed its Off-Broadway run with subsequent openings in more than 50 cities throughout the U.S., England, and Australia. A number of Bumbalo's plays are published, including Questa, Niagara Falls, Adam and the Experts, and What Are Tuesdays Like? by Broadway Play Publishing. Tell appears in an anthology, Gay and Lesbian Plays Today, published by Heinemann Educational Books, Inc., and Show is included in The Best American Short Plays, published by Applause Theatre Book Publishers. KITCHEN DUTY and AFTER ELEVEN appear in Niagara Falls and Other Plays published by Calamus Books. He moved to Los Angeles in 1995, and has written for several popular television series: NYPD Blue, American Gothic, Relativity, and HBO's Spawn. He wrote several movies of the week. Along with a partner, Ray Shenusay, he wrote episodes for the children’s show Wow Wow Wubbzy produced by Nickelodeon. Bumbalo co-authored a screenplay with Dan Lauria, The Book of Joe. Bumbalo is proud to say he was one of the original members of The Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) in New York. For five years he headed a team of volunteers who cared for people with AIDS. Bumbalo was twice a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for his plays, Questa and Niagara Falls. Two Boys, his short film, won the Jury Award for Best Drama at the Beverly Hills Shorts Festival. After ten years of study, he was fully ordained as a Zen priest in 2004 and is a member of the International Buddhist Meditation Center in Los Angeles. He is the founder and president of the Robert Chesley/Victor Bumbalo Foundation, which honors LGBTQ playwrights.
Victor Bumbalo
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Victor Bumbalo worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…