Jonathan Spector is a playwright based in Oakland, California.
His will make his Broadway debut this fall with EUREKA DAY, directed by Tony Award-winner Anna D. Shapiro at Manhattan Theater Club's Samuel Friedman Theater. EUREKA DAY was commissioned by and premiered at Aurora Theater in Berkeley, where it received all the Bay Area’s new play awards (Glickman Award, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, Theater Bay Area Award, Rella Lossy Award) and went on to productions around the world, including Off Broadway with Colt Coeur (NY Times Critics’ Pick, NY Drama Critics Circle Award Nomination), London’s Old Vic (starring Helen Hunt, WhatsOnStage Award Nomination), the National Theater of Austria (in German translation), Asolo Rep, Syracuse Stage, InterAct Theater, Mosaic Theater, and the...
Jonathan Spector is a playwright based in Oakland, California.
His will make his Broadway debut this fall with EUREKA DAY, directed by Tony Award-winner Anna D. Shapiro at Manhattan Theater Club's Samuel Friedman Theater. EUREKA DAY was commissioned by and premiered at Aurora Theater in Berkeley, where it received all the Bay Area’s new play awards (Glickman Award, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, Theater Bay Area Award, Rella Lossy Award) and went on to productions around the world, including Off Broadway with Colt Coeur (NY Times Critics’ Pick, NY Drama Critics Circle Award Nomination), London’s Old Vic (starring Helen Hunt, WhatsOnStage Award Nomination), the National Theater of Austria (in German translation), Asolo Rep, Syracuse Stage, InterAct Theater, Mosaic Theater, and the State Theater of South Australia, among others. A feature film adaptation is currently in development with Lorne Michael’s Broadway Video.
THIS MUCH I KNOW premiered at Aurora Theater in Berkley (Glickman Award, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, Edgerton New Play Award), and was subsequently produced at the Hampstead Theater in London and Theater J in Washington DC. This Much I Know was developed with Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, New Harmony Project, PlayPenn, Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Foundation and Playwrights Center.
BEST AVAILABLE will have its first production in May at Shotgun Players in Berkeley. It was commissioned by South Coast Rep, and developed with the Ashland New Play Festival, Playwrights Center, and Portland Center Stage.
Other plays include GOOD. BETTER. BEST. BESTED. (Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Just Theater/Custom Made Theater), SIESTA KEY (Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Crowded Fire Matchbox Series) and IN FROM THE COLD (Just Theater, Global Age Prize).
Works currently in development include ZERO HOUR, a co-commission from Roundabout Theater Company and La Jolla Playhouse, as well as commissions for Manhattan Theater Club and Miami New Drama.
Jonathan has been a Playwrights Center Core Writer, TheatreWorks Core Writer, MacDowell Fellow, SPACE at Ryder Farm Resident, and Playwrights Foundation Resident Playwright. He is a former Associate Artistic Director of Playwrights Foundation and was the long-time Co-Artistic Director of Just Theater. He is a graduate of the much-besieged New College of Florida and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from SF State. His work is published with Broadway Licensing/Dramatists Play Service in the US and UK, and S. Fischer in Germany.