Jonathan is an American playwright and screenwriter despite what Wikipedia says.
His plays include Need to Know (Colt Coeur Play Hotel 2015, Rogue Machine 2015), The Recommendation (IAMA 2014, The Flea 2013, Old Globe 2012, Craig Noel Award, Best New Play, 2014 Ovation Best Play, NAACP nomination), The Morning The Sun Fell Down (MTC 7@7 2013), Catch The Fish (Most Outstanding Play, NY Fringe), The Venerable Raman Gupta (Sundance Finalist, New Group 2014 New Works Lab), and the forthcoming The House That Jake Built, which will receive its World Premiere in early 2017.
His work has been developed at theaters across the country, including MTC, Roundabout, EST, Rattlestick, New Group, Williamstown, Ars Nova, Pasadena Playhouse, The Keen Company, Colt Coeur, Woodshed Ensemble, Berkshire Playwright’s Lab, Rogue Machine, as well as developmentally at The Lark, New York Stage and Film, The Jewish Plays Project, Partial Comfort, and in The Samuel French OOB Festival and The Old Vic in London.
He has been a member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group at Primary Stages, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Dramatist Guild Fellow, The New York Stage and Film Founder’s Award Winner, a two -time recipient of a Fellowship to SPACE @ Ryder Farm, a two-time Lecomte du Nouy award winner, and a recipient of the Theater Publicus Prize for Dramatic Fiction. Additionally, he was a finalist for the Laurents/Hatcher Award and a nominee for the Otis Guerney New American Playwright’s Award.
In TV, Jonathan is a writer on "The Sinner" Season 3 for USA, "A Million Little Things" for ABC, "Rise" for NBC, and "Gypsy" for Netflix, and has written pilots for FOX and CBS with frequent collaborator Jason Winer.
He is a graduate of The Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwright’s Program at The Juilliard School and Vassar College, where he studied mythology and religion. He’s a member of The IAMA Theater Company, Partial Comfort, and originally hails from Los Angeles.
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