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As a playwright, Jonathan’s work is published by Broadway Play Publishing, Smith & Kraus, Playscripts, Inc., Eldridge Publishing, and Brooklyn Publishers, among others. His plays have been produced across the United States and in Canada, Australia, Asia, South Africa and Europe. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Award for Playwriting and the Shubert Fendrich Award. His play Alice@Wonderland, a contemporary retelling of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, has received over a thousand full productions worldwide since it was published by Pioneer Drama in 2013.

His textbook, Theatre Now: Reading It, Seeing It, Doing It, published by Cognella, is widely used in schools and colleges. Other popular and acclaimed published works include Killing the Bear, The Poe Show, Waking Sleepy Hollow, Finding Don Quixote, Reality Stars: Greek Gods Edition, and Frankenstein Unplugged. Many of his previously anthologized shorter plays can be found in his collection Scattered Plays: Eight Short Works.

Teaching Interests

• Playwriting
• Script Analysis
• New Play Development
• Intro. to Theater
• Structure of Drama
• Dramatic Literature
• Devising Theater
• Directing
• Arts Journalism
• Acting

Waking Sleepy Hollow
Published Fall 2016

Finding Don Quixote
Heuer Publishing – Published January 2016

The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2015
"Crooked Fork"
Smith & Kraus – Published Summer 2015

The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2015
Smith & Kraus – Published Fall 2015

The Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2015
Smith & Kraus – Published Fall 2015

American Midget
Broadway Play Publishing – Published October 2014

Alice@Wonderland: The Musical
Pioneer Drama Service – Published January 2014 

Alice@Wonderland
Pioneer Drama Service – Published July 2013 

Frankenstein Unplugged
Eldridge Play Publishing – Published September 2011

The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2009
"A Short History of Weather"
Smith & Kraus – Published December 2009

More Scenes and Monologs from the Best New Plays
Meriwether Press – Published March 2007 

The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2003
Smith & Kraus – Published April 2004 

Thank You, Twenty Thousand Pound Man
Playscripts, Inc.  –  Published August 2002 

Boiling People in My Coffee
Playscripts, Inc.  –  Published January 2001