In the 1980s Bonnie performed in many productions in Portland, notably as Mary Hallen in Who's Happy Now? at the Firehouse Theatre, as Mrs. Holly in Suddenly Last Summer at the Portland Civic Theatre, the Mother-In-Law in Blood Wedding for the Musical Company, as Hallie in Buried Child for PSU's summer festival, in the Quilters ensemble for Artists' Repertory Theatre, as Ruth in Table Manners with the Open Door Theatre, and as Miss Margarida herself in Miss Margarida's Way for Sirius Productions. (Sadly, many of those companies are no longer around, but, happily, Bonnie is.) She also sang with the Portland Opera Chorus and with the Portland Symphonic Choir. She directed a couple plays for the Gallery Players in McMinnville, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and Frankenstein, an original musical.

She has spent the last 12 years in Colorado Springs. While there, she was on the board of directors for the Star Bar Players and costumed and propped many of their productions. She directed Proof for that same company, which was selected by the local arts council as one of the three best productions in Colorado Springs for that season. She played Rebecca Nurse in The Crucible, Mrs. Toothe in Everything in the Garden, Miss Emily Brent in Ten Little Indians, Aunt Abby in Arsenic and Old Lace, and Aunt Sallie in Fifth of July.

Bonnie has recently returned home to Oregon to stay forever and has bought a house in Depoe Bay. This reading performance of Away constitutes her return to Oregon regional theare.