Jonathan Spector is a playwright and screenwriter based in Oakland, California. His plays include EUREKA DAY, THIS MUCH I KNOW, GOOD. BETTER. BEST. BESTED., BEST AVAILABLE and IN FROM THE COLD. They have been produced across the country and abroad at theaters including The Old Vic/Sonia Friedman Productions, Aurora Theater, Colt Coeur, Mosaic Theater, Asolo Rep, Syracuse Stage, InterAct, Custom Made Theater, The State Theater of South Australia and Just Theater, where he was long-time co-Artistic Director. He’s developed new work with Ashland New Play Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, PlayPenn, New Harmony Project, Crowded Fire, Berkeley Rep, Portland Stage, Playwrights Center, South Coast Rep and Manhattan Theater Club, among others.
He's a two-time winner of both the Glickman Award for Best New Play in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Awards as well as a Theater Bay Area Award, Rella Lossy Award, two Global Age Prizes, WhatsOnStage Award Nomination for Best New Play, and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award Nomination. He's been a New York Times Critics' Pick and on 'Best of The Year' lists in Time Out New York, San Francisco Chronicle, The Spectator Magazine, Londons' I News and the San Jose Mercury News, among others. Jonathan is a Core Writer at Playwrights Center, a MacDowell Fellow, and former Playwrights Foundation Resident Playwright. He’s currently under commission with Roundabout Theater Company, Manhattan Theater Club and La Jolla Playhouse, and is developing a television project with Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video.
He has taught theater and playwriting at San Jose State University, Sonoma State University, University of San Francisco, A.C.T., and his alma mater, New College of Florida.
UPCOMING: UK premiere of THIS MUCH I KNOW at London's Hampstead Theater and at Theater J in Washington DC, BEST AVAILABLE in Portland Center Stage's JAW Festival, and a German-language production of EUREKA DAY running in rep for a year at Burg Theater in Vienna.
Jonathan is represented by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone.
He's a two-time winner of both the Glickman Award for Best New Play in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Awards as well as a Theater Bay Area Award, Rella Lossy Award, two Global Age Prizes, WhatsOnStage Award Nomination for Best New Play, and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award Nomination. He's been a New York Times Critics' Pick and on 'Best of The Year' lists in Time Out New York, San Francisco Chronicle, The Spectator Magazine, Londons' I News and the San Jose Mercury News, among others. Jonathan is a Core Writer at Playwrights Center, a MacDowell Fellow, and former Playwrights Foundation Resident Playwright. He’s currently under commission with Roundabout Theater Company, Manhattan Theater Club and La Jolla Playhouse, and is developing a television project with Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video.
He has taught theater and playwriting at San Jose State University, Sonoma State University, University of San Francisco, A.C.T., and his alma mater, New College of Florida.
UPCOMING: UK premiere of THIS MUCH I KNOW at London's Hampstead Theater and at Theater J in Washington DC, BEST AVAILABLE in Portland Center Stage's JAW Festival, and a German-language production of EUREKA DAY running in rep for a year at Burg Theater in Vienna.
Jonathan is represented by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone.