ABOUT JONATHAN
Jonathan is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Plays include HIT MACHINE (in collaboration with grammy award-winning musician Ben Harper, Soho Theatre), THE OFFSEASON (developed at The Geffen Playhouse), THE RECOMMENDATION (The Flea, IAMA, Windy City Playhouse) and CANYON (Center Theatre Group, IAMA Theater Company/Latino Theater Company). Recent credits in television include Co-EP for Apple TV's BAD MONKEY, Netflix's upcoming THE STICKS, WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES on Hulu, BOOTS for Netflix, and THE SINNER . He has pilot development projects with Netflix, HBO, and Linden Entertainment. Jonathan graduated from Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and Vassar College, where he studied mythology and religion. Jonathan hosts a monthly salon in collaboration with Judson Memorial Church in New York City called The Big Bang: Works-in-Progress.
UPCOMING EVENTS
NEXT UP: The Big Bang at Judson Wednesday, October 7th
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LATEST WORK
Hit Machine continues to evolve with new artistic collaborations coming soon!
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Hit Machine is a raw, rhythmic new play about two brothers chasing a dream and hoping to find their way back to each other. As they struggle to make the next hit single their relationship unravels, revealing the myths they’ve made of each other.
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Featuring original music by Ben Harper |
I CAME WITH EARRINGS
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.
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
Features
Behind the Scenes of Stage Left, a New Theater Festival By and For the Working Class
"I’ve always been fascinated by stories about relationships involving extreme class divisions. Despite our massive inequity, we’re a surprisingly cooperative species, so I look for the common ground in the hope of bridging that gap on the stage." | Read Full Interview
"I’ve always been fascinated by stories about relationships involving extreme class divisions. Despite our massive inequity, we’re a surprisingly cooperative species, so I look for the common ground in the hope of bridging that gap on the stage." | Read Full Interview
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
"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
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Meet the 2019 Performers - Jonathan Caren
"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
"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