Name Jonathan Sherman Role Playwright | Spouse Alexandra Shiva (m. 2003) Education Bennington College | |
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Movies The Jimmy Show, When the Nines Roll Over Parents Barbara Daniels Sherman, Ronald Sherman Similar People Alexandra Shiva, Frank Whaley, Mary Jane Skalski, David Benioff | ||
Things we want by jonathan marc sherman
Jonathan Marc Sherman (born 10 October 1968) is a contemporary American playwright. He submitted plays for several years to Young Playwrights Inc.'s National Playwrights Competition before they did a staged reading of his one-act, Serendipity and Serenity in 1987, followed by a full production of his next play, Women and Wallace (1988).
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- Things we want by jonathan marc sherman
- Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Marc Shermans Closet Picks
- Serendipity and Serenity
- Women and Wallace
- Jesus on the Oil Tank
- Sons and Fathers
- Veins and Thumbtacks
- Sophistry
- Wonderful Time
- Evolution
- Things We Want
- Knickerbocker
- Acting
- References
Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Marc Sherman’s Closet Picks
Serendipity and Serenity
1987. Young Playwrights Festival at Playwrights Horizons (staged reading)
Women and Wallace
Jesus on the Oil Tank
Winner of the 21st Century Playwrights Award
Sons and Fathers
The short play is about a family of two brothers, Toby and Max, and their father, fifteen years after the mother committed suicide. Toby, an idealist who has never quite recovered from his mother's death, still wears diapers at the age of 21 and hardly leaves the house. His older brother Max often lectures him on the ways of life and love. Joanna, a new representative for the diaper company responsible for Toby's deliveries, makes a delivery and Toby instantly falls in love. The play ends with Toby leaving the house, and more symbolically, his dependence on his mother's memory, to be with Joanna.
The play was written in 1991, and was performed by Ethan Hawke's Malaparte Theater Company in New York City. Calista Flockhart played Joanna, Josh Hamilton (actor) played Toby and Ethan Hawke played Max. In the play's earlier incarnation as a workshop reading, Sherman himself played the part of Toby.
In the play's foreword, Sherman stresses the significance of Toby in the play; that his character is the nucleus of the play.
Veins and Thumbtacks
Sophistry
Wonderful Time
1995. WPA Theater in New York City.
Evolution
Things We Want
Knickerbocker
2009. Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. Directed by Nicholas Martin. With Brooks Ashmanskas (Melvin), Peter Dinklage (Chester), Bob Dishy (Raymond), Rightor Doyle (Steve), Annie Parisse (Tara), Susan Pourfar (Pauline), and Reg Rogers (Jerry). Sets by Alexander Dodge. Sound Design by Alex Neumann.