Jonathan Spector is playwright and screenwriter based in Oakland, California.
His play EUREKA DAY was recently was seen at The Old Vic (co-produced with Sonia Friedman Productions), starring Helen Hunt and Mark McKinney, and received a WhatsOnStage Award Nomination for Best New Play. It premiered in 2018 at Aurora Theater in Berkeley, winning all of the San Francisco Bay Area's New Play Awards: Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, Glickman Award, Theater Bay Area Award and Rellas Lossy Award. It was then produced Off Broadway with Colt Couer, where its sold-out run was as a New York Times Critics' Pick and nominated for a New York Drama Critics Circle Award. It has subsequently been produced with theaters including Asolo Rep, InterAct, Syracuse Stage, Mosaic Theater, and The State Theater of South Australia. A german-language production will run in rep for a year at the Burgtheater in Vienna, beginning in September.
THIS MUCH I KNOW also premiered at Aurora Theater in Berkeley, receiving the Edgerton Award and the Glickman Award for best new play to premiere in the SF Bay Area (making Jonathan only the second person to win this award more than once in its 40 year history). It was developed with Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor, PlayPenn, Playwrights Foundation, New Harmony Project, Playwrights Center and Manhattan Theater Club.
Other plays include BEST AVAILABLE (South Coast Rep's Elizabeth George Commission, Ashland New Play Festival), WHAT COMES NEXT (Portland Stage Little Festival of the Unexpected), SIESTA KEY (Bay Area Playwrights Festival) and GOOD. BETTER. BEST. BESTED. (Just Theater/Custom Made Theater, BAPF).
Jonathan is a Core Writer at Playwrights Center, and has been a MacDowell Fellow and a Resident Playwright at Playwrights Foundation. He is currently under commission from Manhattan Theater Club, Roundabout Theater and La Jolla Playhouse.
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.
Jonathan is represented by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone.
His play EUREKA DAY was recently was seen at The Old Vic (co-produced with Sonia Friedman Productions), starring Helen Hunt and Mark McKinney, and received a WhatsOnStage Award Nomination for Best New Play. It premiered in 2018 at Aurora Theater in Berkeley, winning all of the San Francisco Bay Area's New Play Awards: Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, Glickman Award, Theater Bay Area Award and Rellas Lossy Award. It was then produced Off Broadway with Colt Couer, where its sold-out run was as a New York Times Critics' Pick and nominated for a New York Drama Critics Circle Award. It has subsequently been produced with theaters including Asolo Rep, InterAct, Syracuse Stage, Mosaic Theater, and The State Theater of South Australia. A german-language production will run in rep for a year at the Burgtheater in Vienna, beginning in September.
THIS MUCH I KNOW also premiered at Aurora Theater in Berkeley, receiving the Edgerton Award and the Glickman Award for best new play to premiere in the SF Bay Area (making Jonathan only the second person to win this award more than once in its 40 year history). It was developed with Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor, PlayPenn, Playwrights Foundation, New Harmony Project, Playwrights Center and Manhattan Theater Club.
Other plays include BEST AVAILABLE (South Coast Rep's Elizabeth George Commission, Ashland New Play Festival), WHAT COMES NEXT (Portland Stage Little Festival of the Unexpected), SIESTA KEY (Bay Area Playwrights Festival) and GOOD. BETTER. BEST. BESTED. (Just Theater/Custom Made Theater, BAPF).
Jonathan is a Core Writer at Playwrights Center, and has been a MacDowell Fellow and a Resident Playwright at Playwrights Foundation. He is currently under commission from Manhattan Theater Club, Roundabout Theater and La Jolla Playhouse.
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.
Jonathan is represented by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone.