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"...Caren proves himself a master at keeping an audience on the edge of their seats while providing plenty of food for thought. Expect to be riveted throughout.”
— Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA |
Jonathan was born and raised in Los Angeles. His plays include Canyon (IAMA 2019 directed by Whitney White) The Recommendation (IAMA, The Flea, The Old Globe, Windy City Playhouse 2019, Craig Noel Award for Best New Play, Ovation Best Play, NAACP nomination), Need to Know (Colt Coeur Play Hotel, Rogue Machine) and Catch the Fish (Most Outstanding Play NY Fringe). Four Woke Baes debuted in the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe, directed by Teddy Bergman.
His work has been developed at theaters such as Ensemble Studio Theater, Williamstown, Ars Nova, The Manhattan Theater Club, The Roundabout Underground, The Rattlestick, The New Group, Colt Coeur as well as developmentally at The Lark, New York Stage and Film, The Jewish Plays Project and Partial Comfort. Short plays have been showcased in The Samuel French OOB Festival, The Old Vic in London and Keen Teens.
He is a former Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group member, 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.
Jonathan graduated from The Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwright’s Program at The Juilliard School and Vassar College, where he studied mythology and religion. He’s served as an adjunct professor at NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts. In TV, Jonathan is a producer on USA’s 3rd Season of The Sinner. Past credits: ABC’s a million little things, NBC’s Rise and Netflix’s Gypsy. He lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.
His work has been developed at theaters such as Ensemble Studio Theater, Williamstown, Ars Nova, The Manhattan Theater Club, The Roundabout Underground, The Rattlestick, The New Group, Colt Coeur as well as developmentally at The Lark, New York Stage and Film, The Jewish Plays Project and Partial Comfort. Short plays have been showcased in The Samuel French OOB Festival, The Old Vic in London and Keen Teens.
He is a former Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group member, 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.
Jonathan graduated from The Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwright’s Program at The Juilliard School and Vassar College, where he studied mythology and religion. He’s served as an adjunct professor at NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts. In TV, Jonathan is a producer on USA’s 3rd Season of The Sinner. Past credits: ABC’s a million little things, NBC’s Rise and Netflix’s Gypsy. He lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.