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Jonathan Spector is a playwright based in Oakland, California. He will make his Broadway debut this fall with Eureka Day, which previously played London’s Old Vic Theater (starring Helen Hunt), Off Broadway with Colt Coeur (NYT Critics’ Pick), and in over a dozen productions regionally and abroad. Other produced plays include This Much I Know (Theater J, Hampstead Theater, Aurora Theater), Birthright (upcoming at Miami New Drama), Best Available (Shotgun Players), Good. Better. Best. Bested. (Custom Made Theater), and In From The Cold (Just Theater).
He has developed work with Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Crowded Fire, New Harmony Project, PlayPenn, Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, and South Coast Rep, among others. Jonathan has been a Playwrights Center Core Writer, TheatreWorks Core Writer, MacDowell Fellow, SPACE at Ryder Farm Resident, Playwrights Foundation Resident Playwright and is currently working on commissions from Roundabout Theater Company, La Jolla Playhouse Manhattan Theater Club and Miami New Drama.
Honors include: two Glickman Awards for Best Play to Premiere in the San Francisco Bay Area, two Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Awards, Theater Bay Area Award, Rella Lossy Award, Edgerton Award, WhatsOnStage Award Nomination for Best New Play (London), and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award nomination. His work is published by Dramatists Play Service/Broadway Licensing.
Before working up the nerve to write plays of his own, he was the Literary Manager and then Associate Artistic Director of Playwrights Foundation/Bay Area Playwrights Festival, where he supported the development of over a hundred new plays. He was also the long-time Co-Artistic Director of the Berkeley-based Just Theater, where he produced (and sometimes directed) many regional and world premieres.
Jonathan is a graduate of the much-besieged New College of Florida and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State. In his misspent youth as an aspiring director in New York City during the early aughts, he was a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and a frequent collaborator with The Civilians. He is represented by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone entertainment.
He has developed work with Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Crowded Fire, New Harmony Project, PlayPenn, Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, and South Coast Rep, among others. Jonathan has been a Playwrights Center Core Writer, TheatreWorks Core Writer, MacDowell Fellow, SPACE at Ryder Farm Resident, Playwrights Foundation Resident Playwright and is currently working on commissions from Roundabout Theater Company, La Jolla Playhouse Manhattan Theater Club and Miami New Drama.
Honors include: two Glickman Awards for Best Play to Premiere in the San Francisco Bay Area, two Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Awards, Theater Bay Area Award, Rella Lossy Award, Edgerton Award, WhatsOnStage Award Nomination for Best New Play (London), and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award nomination. His work is published by Dramatists Play Service/Broadway Licensing.
Before working up the nerve to write plays of his own, he was the Literary Manager and then Associate Artistic Director of Playwrights Foundation/Bay Area Playwrights Festival, where he supported the development of over a hundred new plays. He was also the long-time Co-Artistic Director of the Berkeley-based Just Theater, where he produced (and sometimes directed) many regional and world premieres.
Jonathan is a graduate of the much-besieged New College of Florida and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State. In his misspent youth as an aspiring director in New York City during the early aughts, he was a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and a frequent collaborator with The Civilians. He is represented by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone entertainment.