Jonathan A. Goldberg
a playwright
About (Biography)

Jonathan is a playwright based in the New York City area. He writes plays that some find baffling, but others find facinating. Noted playwright Len Jenkin said of a recent piece:

"My Father is a Tetris Game is smart as hell, funny, wise, and goofy by turns --a dead serious surreal journey to the East in search of Dad himself. Wonderful all-girl band of actors, a simple and beautiful production, and language that twists and soars. Jonathan A. Goldberg is the real thing. If you care at all about important new voices for the American stage, see his work."

If you like inventive theater that is more than rich people sitting around a table complaining about a dead baby or a gay son then you might like his work. Plays subjects have included: dinosaurs, cowboys, Tetris, killing God, Tasmanian tigers, lesbian Jewish anarchists, plots to release a monsterous "land whale" on New York, Teddy Roosevelt, and other good stuff.



And for those of you who would like a more traditional bio:


Jonathan A. Goldberg has had work seen at The New Dixon Place, The Public Theater, HERE Center for the Arts, New Jersey Repertory, and other venues.  His play The Jew and the Demon won the Rita and Burton Goldberg Award for playwriting. He was a finalist for the Jerome Fellowship at The Playwrights' Center and served as playwright-in-residence for Little Gem Productions. His play The Sharks of Montana was part of the inaugural reading series for the Intravenous Theater Company.  He is a frequent contributor to The Playground Reading Series in Brooklyn and has worked with the Woodshed Collective.  His play How to Shoot a Bull Moose was part of the Seedling Development Series at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga, California.  My Father is a Tetris Game was included in HERE’s Summer Sublet Series after it was developed with the Page to Stage progam at the New Dixon Place.  This past summer he was a guest artist at the LAByrinth Theater Company’s summer intensive at Bard College.  He received his MFA from NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts in dramatic writing.  He is also an internationally published poet whose book, A Little Dark, is available through March Street Press.  He is currently involved with the Shelby Company where Luck of the Ibis will be included in the first annual Shelby Theater Festival and he is an active member of their reading series.