About

Jonathan Fitts is a dramatist, director, composer, and all-around creative. His play White or the Muskox Play was a Finalist for the 2012 O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference, won the Kennedy Center’s John Cauble National Short Play Award, and was published in Applause Books’ anthology “The Best American Short Plays 2011-2012.” Notable productions of his work include The Eschatology of Terence McKenna (In/Visible Theatre), The Greater Watauga County Annex’s 17th Annual Hollerin’ Contest (Kent State University), Resurrection: Or the Terrible Repercussions of Making Tangible the Intangible (The Producer’s Club, NYC), Playground (Burning Coal Theatre Company/The Distillery), The Pursuit of Mr. Rockefeller (Appalachian State University, Davenport Theatrical Studios NYC), and a workshop of Lobotomobile (The Public Theater/NYU, terraNOVA Groundbreakers Finalist).

He is also an experienced teacher, having served as the Interim Director of Education for Burning Coal Theatre Company (2013-2014) and taught students at both New York University and Columbia University during his graduate study. In 2012, he presented his paper “Towards a Dramaturgy of Performative Playwriting” at the Princeton University Literary Theatricality Symposium, and he continues his research to this day on the aesthetics and semiotics of non-textual script elements.

Jon continued this trend in 2021 by creating pixies: part i — the world’s first theatre script NFT, minted on the Ethereum blockchain.

Jon has also developed numerous properties for the screen in collaboration with Manage-ment, The Gersh Agency, Baha Productions, Bear with Sunglasses/Jaguar Bite, Boat Rocker Media, Essential Media, and Port Manteau Productions.

From 2014 to 2019, he worked as the in-house author and narrative lead for a boutique book publisher in New York City, where he developed over a dozen literary intellectual properties and authored numerous works of historical fiction. From 2019 to the spring of 2023, he worked as a freelance copywriter and narrative strategist for multiple clients. Jon currently works as a Senior Simulation Designer for Attensi, an international company specializing in creating corporate training video games, where he writes and designs L&D video games for various clients across diverse industries.

In 2024, Jon founded Hypothetical Future - a new theatre company in central North Carolina devoted to producing and developing new and experiential works of theatre. Under this banner, he produced the Raleigh premiere of his extemporaneous monologue The Eschatology of Terence McKenna as part of the inaugural Raleigh Fringe Festival.

Jon has a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Appalachian State University and an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

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