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 Call
Performances: Regularly performed over the phone for groups of NY seniors from 2021 to 2024.
Commissioned by 24/6 for their Telephone Series.
The Call is an interactive customer service experiences that asks the question - how bad can customer service really be?
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Children's Employment Commission
Performances: Staged reading, Soho Rep.
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 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
Performances: Ezra Stiles Theater, Yale University.
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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Clicking
Performances: Ezra Stiles Theater, Yale University starring Brooke Lyons and Max Borenstein.
Clark, 23, a sort of old school romantic, finds himself confused and caught up in the midst of modern life. One day he meets two amazing women in a record store – Elissa, a young woman in love with life and to a great extent herself, and Sarah, an off-putting and extreme record store attendant with a slightly twisted heart of gold. Who will end up with whom?
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‘Til Death Do Us Part
Developed in collaboration with the Brooklyn College MFA Director’s Program.
A modern retelling of the Aeschylus plays Agamemnon and The Libation Bearers, ‘Til Death Do Us Part is the story of two teenage siblings, Orestes and Electra, and the crazy family they find themselves in.
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First Date – How Bad Can It Be And You Still End Up Together?
Selected for new play reading series at Abingdon Theatre.
Thomas and Melinda, both near thirty and lonely, meet through a miraculous event in the grocery store. Thomas invites Melinda over for dinner to get to know each other, but neither of them realizes how many different people depend on them for companionship. Soon joining them in the apartment are handymen, sleazy ex-house-guests and downstairs neighbors. And as much as Thomas and Melinda want to get to each other, no one wants to leave.
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Restorante
Performances: St. Ann’s Play Festival
My first play! A comedic murder mystery set in an Italian restaurant.
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Clownfoolio
Two statisticians pass the hours hiding secrets and flirting with the ladies at a technology firm in the 1950s.