Plays
Jonathan is the author of over twenty plays and studied playwriting with Donald Margulies, Suzan-Lori Parks, Wendy Wasserstein, Mac Wellman, and C.K. Williams. He is a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab.
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The 24 Store
Performances: Staged Reading as part of Brooklyn College Director MFA Program, Directed by Sarah Benson
The 24 Store is about a family in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan that owns a 24-hour convenience store. Sarah Benson, Artistic Director of Soho Rep, directed a stage reading of the play at Brooklyn College. The family’s two sons, Izhar and Jules go to the local high-school, where they struggle to fit in as the children of a secular Indian father and an American-born Buddist mother. A new student at the high-school, Brianna, pursues a romantic relationship with Jules under her new friend Tawny’s advice. Once the four teenagers lives intersect, they find it impossible to separate.
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Everyone Has Lots and Lots of Sex
Everyone Has Lots and Lots of Sex examines what happens when one morning, Tim, a wild and mysterious stranger, enters a pharmacy where two bored twenty-something women, Jo and Dixie, work. Tim’s combination of boyish energy and utter forthrightness catalyzes their lives.
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Children’s Employment Commission
Developed in the Soho Rep Writer Director Lab, the play is inspired by a 1842 British government report on child labor in England. British child laborers are brought to the stage by a pair of present day children. The British children sing, dance, labor, tell their stories and battle it out for control of the play with the modern children.
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The Call
Commissioned by 24/6 for their Telephone Series. Regularly performed over the phone for groups of NY seniors from 2021 to 2024.
The Call is an interactive customer service experiences that asks the question - how bad can customer service really be?