Dylan Bonansigna

Dylan was born in Denver, Colorado on March 11th, to a Maureen Treston and James Becker at St. Joseph's hospital. He grew up in a very artistic household, with his mother a painter and a therapist and his father a post Korean War baby and a Japanese immigrant is a photographer and carpenter. Dylan passion for art and humanity came from his parents exposing him to directors and films, by Fellini, Jean Luc Godard, Vittorio De Sica, Giuseppe Tornatore and Akira Kurosawa. As well as his parents educating him and exposing him to great painters, Jackson Pollock, Vincent Van Gogh and Matisse. Italian film also took a major part in Dylans life, helping his identify himself as an artist and a person. Dylan identifies as a Sicilian American, and is active within the Italian American community, he is also a advocate of social justice within the Americas and environment justice. He would spend the first portion of his life attending catholic schools in his neighborhood in Northwest Denver, a predominately Italian and Latino neighborhood Dylan saw and disagreed with a lot of the system of control put into place at catholic school Dylan still had that same rebellion in his blood his father had, never really getting along with teachers or students, he was always very socially distant and awkward in school and around people, only wanting to spend time alone. Due to Dylan's free spirit, in 2005 he would attend an alternative high school, P.S.1, where he would find his foundations of passion and social interest, Dylan would travel to Baja at this school, taking a real concern for sea life, caring for and cleaning sea turtles as well as a passion for whales and sea mammals, he would travel to Honduras and help build energy sustainable ovens for indigenous people, stay in huts and take very little showers. P.S.1 gave him the foundations and motivations to learn and take and interest in his own civic duties as well as an interest in social and environmental justice, film and art. After graduating from high school, Dylan coming from a very street environment would be exposed to and battle with depression and drug addiction up until he decided to follow his dreams acting, which ultimately helped him overcome his own problems, through expression of art. Dylan auditioned for Stella Adler studio of acting in 2013, and went through the two-year conservatory in 2014-2015 and moved to continue his trained at Lee Strasberg institute in 2015, where he studied method acting. He is now a working actor, seeking to use his talent and passion to show show the beauty in a more despondent side of life.