JONATHAN CAREN
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ABOUT JONATHAN

Jonathan is an award-winning playwright and TV writer.  He recently finished as a Co-EP on WE'RE THE LUCKY ONES at Hulu / 20th. Before that, he was a Co-EP on PINK MARINE for Netflix and a Co-EP on THE SINNER for USA. He was previously a Producer on ABC's A MILLION LITTLE THINGS and was a Co-Producer on NBC's RISE. His most recent plays include The Recommendation (The Flea, IAMA, Windy City Playhouse) and Canyon (Center Theatre Group). He's also currently writing a play based on the life of John Wooden for the Geffen. Jonathan graduated from Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and Vassar College, where he studied mythology and religion. Monthly, Jonathan produces a monthly writer's salon in collaboration with Judson Memorial Church in New York City called Big Bang: Works-in-Progress. 

UPCOMING EVENTS

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LINK TO TICKETS MAY 14th, 8:30PM
I Came With Earrings with have its premiere May 12th-15th at the Big Apple Film Festival in New York City. 

Inspired by the YouTube video Hahn Ponder uploaded for her birth mom-- The day of Leah’s big Aikido test, her adoptive moms gift her with a pair of earrings that send her on a psychological tailspin where they must overcome more than just an brown belt test. 

Hahn Ponder - LEAH GOLDSTEIN
Marcia Debonis - MIRIAM GOLDSTEIN
Bebe Neuwrith - JOYCE GOLDSTEIN
Eunice Wong   BIRTH MOM 
Michiko Hiranuma - EMI
Marguerite Moreau - SENSEI BARKER

with Leo Soeda, Artur Shchukin, Stephen Solow, Grant Bremer, Ian Kinsey, Karin Maistrello

Produced by
Lotus Fortune Entertainment
The Carlberg Company &
Hidden People 

DIRECTOR: Jonathan Caren 
WRITERS  Hahn Ponder & Jonathan Caren
EDITOR: Ashley Roby
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Adrian Peng Correia ​ 

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Monday, May 19th at 6:30pm
Big Bang: Works-in-Progress – May 2025 Session 


The monthly cold reading series the BIG BANG WORKS IN PROGRESS series features five excerpts of works-in-progress from exciting playwrights and screenwriters in the New York City area once a month on Wednesday nights at 7:30 pm at Judson Church: 239 Thompkins St (just south of Washington Square Park. Closest Subway is West 4th Street ACE/BDFM).

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Features

A Conversation between Whitney White and Jonathan Caren in Broadway World
"This play, Four Woke Baes, is about a group of liberal men that believe they are evolved, and must come to terms with just how far from "woke" they truly are."  | Read Full Interview
Meet the 2019 Performers - Jonathan Caren 
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We live in a time when people want everything, and they want it now.  But to appreciate anything, there has to be a cost.  Nothing is worth the price of sacrificing one’s truth in a relationship, so whatever your boundaries are, make sure they’re clear.  The truth always manifests one way or another. "
The EFC written by Christian McRae  | Read Full Interview
Four Woke Baes - Teddy Bergman (Director)
"Jonathan manages to unearth the way people’s politics only run so deep, and usually end as when each the shore of someone’s psychology."
The New Current | Read Full Interview
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