THEATRE

Jon grew up in community theatres up and down the east coast and has worked in just about every production role. From an early age, this instilled him with a holistic perspective through which to approach storytelling — as an actor, as a technician, as a designer, as a producer, as a director, and as a dramatist respectively and together.

His graduate work explored non-textual ways in which writers are able to communicate via their scripts to inform and shape the production process from written “script” to performed “play.” In 2012, he presented his research at Princeton University’s Literary Theatricality Symposium.

His most widely produced plays include White or the Muskox Play (Published, “The Best American Short Plays 2011-2012,” winner of the Kennedy Center’s John Cauble Short Play Award), Hollerin’ Contest, and The Pursuit of Mr. Rockefeller.

Jon also possesses extensive experience writing, producing, and designing immersive theatre events of all scales. His work includes contributing script material to the Experiment America Festival in Boston and New York City, developing educational haunted house tours for historic societies, directing site-specific productions of classical and new plays, and a forthcoming, large-scale adaptation of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short story, “Hell Screen,” among other projects.

In early 2021, Jon created “pixies: part i” — the first theatre script non-fungible token (NFT) in the world.

Not all plays are relevant at all times. Do you really need his “dysfunctional-white-family-gets-drunk-over-dinner” play? Nah.

Follow this link for a list of plays Jon thinks have a place in today’s world. He also accepts select commissions.

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