Jonathon is a playwright and a New Yorker from six American Nations: Yankeedom, Greater Appalachia, The Midlands, New France, Tidewater and New Netherland. He also explores the other five nations of America, through visiting and researching: The Far West, First Nation, El Norte, Deep South, and The Left Coast. In his plays, he delves into the richness of our cultural heritages and creates neo-classical American Theatre that challenges preconceptions of who we are and where we’re going as a people.
He’s had the pleasure to create and develop new theatre with many people in the United States and Canada including New Circle Theatre Company, NYCSummerfest, Theatre Conspiracy, FringeNYC Festival, Indie Theater Now, Secret Theatre, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Itinerant Theatre, Plays and Pizza, Little Funky Theatre, William Inge Festival, Metropolitan Playhouse, Barter Theater Appalachian Festival, InspiraTO, Applause Books Best Short Plays, Huntington Arts Council, Cooperstown Art Museum, Little Victory Players, Pulse Ensemble, Community Free Theatre, Urban Youth Theatre and others. He has received four commissions from the New York State Council on the Arts through several local arts agencies, as well as grants from New York University, and private foundations for producing his work.
In addition to playwriting, he has worked as a writer, producer, and director in cable television and educational video and administered prominent theatre programs. He was the Director of the Theater Program at the Abrons Arts Center, where he worked for 20 years, and Department Administrator of the NYU Graduate Acting Program for eight years. As an administrator/producer, he wrote and produced over 20 of his own plays in New York City, and produced and presented over 200 shows of other artists.