Jonathan Spector is a playwright and screenwriter based in Oakland, California.
He is best known for his play EUREKA DAY, which was recently seen at London's Old Vic Theater (co-produced with Sonia Friedman Productions), starring Helen Hunt, Mark McKinney and Susan Kelechi Watson. That production was nominated for a WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play, and a 'Top Ten Show of The Year' in the Spectator Magazine and The I News. It was commissioned by and premiered at Aurora Theater in Berkeley in 2018, where it received all of the San Francisco Bay Area's New Play Awards: The Glickman Award, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, Rella Lossy Award and Theater Bay Area Award. It was subsequently produced at Colt Coeur (NYT Critics' Pick, NY Drama Critics Circle Award Nomination) Syracuse Stage, Asolo Rep, Mosaic Theater, InterAct Theater, The State Theater of South Australia and (in German Translation) Burgtheater - The National Theater of Austria. It is currently under option for Broadway with Sonia Friedman Productions, Seaview Productions, and Wagner/Johnson Productions.
THIS MUCH I KNOW also premiered at Aurora Theater, and received the Glickman Award, Edgerton Award and Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award. It will next be seen at the Hampstead Theater in London and Theater J in Washington, DC. It was developed at Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor, Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Foundation, New Harmony Project, PlayPenn and Playwrights Center.
BEST AVAILABLE was commissioned and developed with South Coast Rep, as well as Portland Stage's JAW Festival and The Playwrights Center. It was have its first production at Shotgun Players in May.
Other plays include GOOD. BETTER. BEST. BESTED. (Custom Made Theater, Just Theater, Bay Area Playwrights Festival) SIESTA KEY (Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Crowded Fire Matchbox Series) and In From The Cold (Just Theater, Global Age Prize).
He has been a MacDowell Fellow, Playwrights Center Core Writer, a SPACE at Ryder Farm resident, and a Playwrights Foundation Resident Playwright. He is currently under commission with Roundabout Theater, La Jolla Playhouse and Manhattan Theater Club.
Jonathan was the long-time Co-Artistic Director of the Berkeley-based Just Theater, and a former Associate Artistic Director of Playwrights Foundation. He is an alumnus of the much-besieged New College of Florida and holds an MFA from San Francisco State Univeristy.
He is represented by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone.
He is best known for his play EUREKA DAY, which was recently seen at London's Old Vic Theater (co-produced with Sonia Friedman Productions), starring Helen Hunt, Mark McKinney and Susan Kelechi Watson. That production was nominated for a WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play, and a 'Top Ten Show of The Year' in the Spectator Magazine and The I News. It was commissioned by and premiered at Aurora Theater in Berkeley in 2018, where it received all of the San Francisco Bay Area's New Play Awards: The Glickman Award, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, Rella Lossy Award and Theater Bay Area Award. It was subsequently produced at Colt Coeur (NYT Critics' Pick, NY Drama Critics Circle Award Nomination) Syracuse Stage, Asolo Rep, Mosaic Theater, InterAct Theater, The State Theater of South Australia and (in German Translation) Burgtheater - The National Theater of Austria. It is currently under option for Broadway with Sonia Friedman Productions, Seaview Productions, and Wagner/Johnson Productions.
THIS MUCH I KNOW also premiered at Aurora Theater, and received the Glickman Award, Edgerton Award and Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award. It will next be seen at the Hampstead Theater in London and Theater J in Washington, DC. It was developed at Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor, Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Foundation, New Harmony Project, PlayPenn and Playwrights Center.
BEST AVAILABLE was commissioned and developed with South Coast Rep, as well as Portland Stage's JAW Festival and The Playwrights Center. It was have its first production at Shotgun Players in May.
Other plays include GOOD. BETTER. BEST. BESTED. (Custom Made Theater, Just Theater, Bay Area Playwrights Festival) SIESTA KEY (Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Crowded Fire Matchbox Series) and In From The Cold (Just Theater, Global Age Prize).
He has been a MacDowell Fellow, Playwrights Center Core Writer, a SPACE at Ryder Farm resident, and a Playwrights Foundation Resident Playwright. He is currently under commission with Roundabout Theater, La Jolla Playhouse and Manhattan Theater Club.
Jonathan was the long-time Co-Artistic Director of the Berkeley-based Just Theater, and a former Associate Artistic Director of Playwrights Foundation. He is an alumnus of the much-besieged New College of Florida and holds an MFA from San Francisco State Univeristy.
He is represented by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone.