Jonathan was born and raised in Los Angeles. Plays include Metanoia (Developed through Center Theater Group, Readings with Knud Adams) Canyon (Center Theater Group/IAMA Block Party with The Latino Theater Company, directed by Whitney White) The Recommendation (IAMA, The Flea, The Old Globe, Windy City Playhouse, 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 was one of The Guardian's top shows to see in the Edinburgh Fringe, directed by Teddy Bergman.

His work has been developed at The Manhattan Theater Club, The Roundabout, The Flea, Ensemble Studio Theater, Williamstown, Ars Nova, The Rattlestick, The New Group, Colt Coeur. Short plays have been showcased in The Samuel French OOB Festival, The Old Vic in London and published by Keen Teens.
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He is currently under commission with The Geffen Playhouse and is a member of The Road's Under Construction playwright's group as well as The Parent/Caregivers Playwrights group in New York. Former member of Center Theater Group's 2020 L.A. Writer's Workshop, The Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group member 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.
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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 was a CO-EP for Hulu's We Were The Lucky Ones and ​Netflix's ​Boots. Past credits: USA's The Sinner, ABC’s a million little things, NBC’s Rise and Netflix’s Gypsy. He lives in Brooklyn and runs a monthly artists salon at Judson Church called "The Big Bang."