ABOUT

Jonathan L. Green has directed for Sideshow Theatre, Diversionary Theatre (San Diego), TheatreWorks (Palo Alto), Greenhouse Theater Center, Playwrights' Center, Silk Road Rising, Chicago Dramatists, Theatre Seven of Chicago, Pavement Group and more; and has assisted Kimberly Senior, Tim Hopper and Andrew White at Steppenwolf and Lookingglass Theatres. Recent directing projects include Alistair McDowall's X, J. Nicole Brooks' HeLa, debbie tucker green's truth and reconciliation (Jeff Award nomination for direction and ensemble), Philip Dawkins' The Happiest Place on Earth (Jeff Award for solo performance), Anne Carson's Antigonick, Aaron Posner's Stupid Fucking Bird, Roland Schimmelpfennig's Idomeneus (Jeff Award for ensemble). Jonathan was the artistic director of Sideshow Theatre in Chicago, IL from 2007-2020. With Sideshow, he also developed new work with Bonnie Metzgar, Ariel Zetina and Philip Dawkins.

Jonathan is the Director of New Play Development at Steppenwolf Theatre where his most recent dramaturgy credit was the world premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose. Prior to that, he was the Director of New Works and a line producer at Goodman Theatre, where he worked for nine years, and where his dramaturgy credits included the world premieres of Martin Yousif Zebari's Layalina, Christina Anderson's How to Catch Creation, Rogelio Martinez's Blind Date, Charles Smith's Objects in the Mirror, and Doug Wright's, Scott Frankel's and Michael Korie's War Paint; as well as productions of Lisa Loomer's Roe, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Gloria, Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Ayad Ahktar's Disgraced and more. At the Goodman, he also developed new work with Nancy García Loza, Gina Femia, Max Yu, Dave Harris, Paola Lázaro, Bess Wohl, Abe Koogler, Octavio Solis and Charise Castro Smith; and he co-designed the Future Labs initiative with Ken-Matt Martin and Quenna L. Barrett.