Jonathan Spector is playwright and screenwriter based in Oakland, California.
His play EUREKA DAY premiered at Aurora Theater in Berkeley, where it received all of the San Francisco Bay Area’s new play awards: Glickman Award, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, Theater Bay Area Award and Rella Lossy Award. It was subsequently produced by Colt Coeur where it was a New York Times Critics’ Pick, an “Honorable Mention” in Time Out New York’s ‘Best Plays of 2019’ list, and nominated for a New York Drama Critics Circle Award. It has been or will be produced by InterAct Theater, Mosaic Theater, Asolo Theater, Syracuse Stage, Spreckles Theater, Mendocino Theater Company and the State Theater of South Australia.
Jonathan’s play THIS MUCH I KNOW received the Edgerton New Play Award, and will premiere in February at Aurora Theater. It was developed in the Playwrights Center’s Ruth Easton Series, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, New Harmony Project, and Playwrights Foundation’s Rough Reading Series. It will be part of Manhattan Theater Club's Ted Snowdown Reading Series in March.
Other plays include GOOD. BETTER. BEST. BESTED. (Custom Made Theater, Bay Area Playwrights Festival), SIESTA KEY (Crowded Fire Matchbox Series, Bay Area Playwrights Festival), WHAT COMES NEXT (Portland Stage’s Little Festival of The Unexpected, SF PlayGround Festival) and IN FROM THE COLD (Just Theater, Aurora Theater’s Global Age Prize). He has written two audio dramas: THE FLATS (Aurora Theater, co-written with Lauren Gunderson and Cleavon Smith) and OWNER OCCUPY (Playing On Air).
Jonathan is a Core Writer at Playwrights Center, a MacDowell Fellow, a PlayPenn Haas Fellow, an Ithaca College New Voices Fellow, and a former Resident Playwright at Playwrights Foundation. He is under commission from South Coast Rep, Roundabout Theater Company, and La Jolla Playhouse.
He is Co-Artistic Director of Just Theater and a former Associate Artistic Director of Playwrights Foundation/Bay Area Playwrights Festival. He has taught at San Jose State University, Sonoma State University, A.C.T Studio, Berkeley Rep School of Theater and his alma mater, New College of Florida.
Jonathan is represented by ICM Partners and Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment.
His play EUREKA DAY premiered at Aurora Theater in Berkeley, where it received all of the San Francisco Bay Area’s new play awards: Glickman Award, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, Theater Bay Area Award and Rella Lossy Award. It was subsequently produced by Colt Coeur where it was a New York Times Critics’ Pick, an “Honorable Mention” in Time Out New York’s ‘Best Plays of 2019’ list, and nominated for a New York Drama Critics Circle Award. It has been or will be produced by InterAct Theater, Mosaic Theater, Asolo Theater, Syracuse Stage, Spreckles Theater, Mendocino Theater Company and the State Theater of South Australia.
Jonathan’s play THIS MUCH I KNOW received the Edgerton New Play Award, and will premiere in February at Aurora Theater. It was developed in the Playwrights Center’s Ruth Easton Series, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, New Harmony Project, and Playwrights Foundation’s Rough Reading Series. It will be part of Manhattan Theater Club's Ted Snowdown Reading Series in March.
Other plays include GOOD. BETTER. BEST. BESTED. (Custom Made Theater, Bay Area Playwrights Festival), SIESTA KEY (Crowded Fire Matchbox Series, Bay Area Playwrights Festival), WHAT COMES NEXT (Portland Stage’s Little Festival of The Unexpected, SF PlayGround Festival) and IN FROM THE COLD (Just Theater, Aurora Theater’s Global Age Prize). He has written two audio dramas: THE FLATS (Aurora Theater, co-written with Lauren Gunderson and Cleavon Smith) and OWNER OCCUPY (Playing On Air).
Jonathan is a Core Writer at Playwrights Center, a MacDowell Fellow, a PlayPenn Haas Fellow, an Ithaca College New Voices Fellow, and a former Resident Playwright at Playwrights Foundation. He is under commission from South Coast Rep, Roundabout Theater Company, and La Jolla Playhouse.
He is Co-Artistic Director of Just Theater and a former Associate Artistic Director of Playwrights Foundation/Bay Area Playwrights Festival. He has taught at San Jose State University, Sonoma State University, A.C.T Studio, Berkeley Rep School of Theater and his alma mater, New College of Florida.
Jonathan is represented by ICM Partners and Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment.