Playwright Biography

Jonathan Mayer is a playwright currently based in New York City. He hails from the Orlando, Florida area and is a graduate of Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Harvard, he studied Dramatic Arts and worked extensively with the American Repertory Theatre.

As an author of many one-act plays, short films, and full-length screenplays, he started writing at 14 and continues to do so. In 2006, he won the VSA Arts Playwright Discovery Award for his play Mistakes-R-Us, which was chosen out of 250 entries to world premiere at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

Jonathan is professionally published by both Playscripts, Inc. and Brooklyn Publishers. His plays have been performed across North America and Europe. In addition, one of his short stories was exhibitioned with an art exhibit at the Louvre in Paris.