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Jonathan Spector

JONATHAN SPECTOR

  
Nationality:    USA
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Jonathan Spector is a playwright, director and Dramaturg living in the Bay Area, where he is the Co-Artistic Director of Just Theater. His plays have been produced and developed with Aurora Theater, Playwrights Foundation, Just Theater, PlayGround, Source Theater Festival, St. Bonaventure College, and Mugwumpin. His directing credits include regional premieres of plays by Anne Washburn (the Internationalist and I Have Loved Strangers), Jason Grote (1001), and Melissa Gibson (Current Nobody). He is an Artistic Associate at Playwrights Foundation/Bay Area Playwrights Festival, where he was the Associate Artistic Director from 2006 - 2009. As a director and Dramaturg, he has developed many new plays with writers including Samuel D. Hunter, Sheila Callaghan, Gordon Dahlquist, Sharyn Rothstein, Thomas Bradshaw, Julia Jarcho, Marcus Gardley, Madeline George, and Rachel Axler. He is currently pursuing his MFA in playwriting at San Francisco State University. Prior to moving west, he lived in New York where he was a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Lincoln Center Directors Lab and a frequent collaborator with the Civilians.

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         Be What You Wish To Seem         In From the Cold         Nasty, Brutish And Short         Sandal Weather

Be What You Wish To Seem

Synopsis:
Three people look for meaning in their lives - or anywhere else they can find it.

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In From the Cold

Synopsis:
the past might be catching up to an ex-Cold War spy, the hidden meaning of 80's movies is revealed and it's ladies' night at Chili's. A funny and touching play about what it means when you used to mean a lot, and now you don't mean much anymore.

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Developed at the 2012 NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights Workshop. one of 25 full-length plays that have been selected as finalists for the 2013 Source Festival. Three full-length plays will be selected from the 25 finalists and will be produced at the Source Festival from June 7-30.

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(reading) Aurora Theatre Company, 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94704    04 Feb 2013

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Nasty, Brutish And Short

Synopsis:
It's the end of the world as we know it. Or not. But as long as we're waiting we better get this thing figured out.

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part of "Mortality"

1st Produced:
Source Festival, Washington DC    27 Jun 2014

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Sandal Weather

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-    2011

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Just Theater

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