BRIFT Alumni Search Is On!

Donna Carbone

Location: South Florida, USA
Birthday: April 21

Title: Owner
Company: Writers Bloc

Bio: Married for thirty six years and the mother of the two grown children, I began writing at the age of ten. My first success was winning a poetry contest in grammar school. From that moment forward, I realized that the written word was as vital to my survival as food and air. I am presently working on two books, one of which I hope to finish before I die. A number of my poems have graced A Long Story Short, and I have been published in the Lucidity Journal. Each day inspires me...what I see, hear and experience.... if it stays in my mind, I write about it. __________________________________________ "To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open." (Lillian Smith)

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January 20, 2012 10:28AM
Burt Reynolds to expand his Master Acting Classes
January 09, 2012 07:39AM

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OCTOBER 15, 2011 9:20AM

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Burt Reynolds w/students

THE SEARCH IS ON!

ALUMNI WEEKEND PLANNED FOR SPRING 2012

Jupiter, Florida: Kelly Dennehy, Executive Director of the Burt Reynolds Institute for Film & Theatre (BRIFT), announced tentative plans for an alumni reunion weekend in the Spring of 2012. To that end, she is asking that all graduates of both the Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre Training (BRITT) and the Burt Reynolds Institute for Film & Theatre (BRIFT) email Finance Director, Donna Carbone, with their contact information at briftfinancedirector@comcast.net. Dennehy requests that all graduates include their full name, address, telephone number and graduation year in their email.

Tentative plans include a welcome cocktail party at the Burt Reynolds Museum on Friday evening, a dinner dance on Saturday evening and a farewell breakfast on Sunday morning. Free time excursions for Saturday morning and afternoon are also in the works.

Dennehy, herself a graduate of BRIFT, commented on the lifelong dedication of mega star Burt Reynolds’ students and her hope to bring them all together again before the Institute moves to its planned new location in Burt Reynolds Park. In discussing the move, Dennehy mentioned how thrilled the board and staff of BRIFT are with the recent unanimous vote by the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners to lease an acre of land in the park for construction of a new, bigger, better Institute and Museum. No formal date for groundbreaking has been announced.

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The Burt Reynolds Institute for Film and Theatre (BRIFT) is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization committed to educating and involving the community in all aspects of film, television and theater as well as preserving Mr. Reynolds’ vast collection of Hollywood memorabilia and the history of the film industry.