Jonathan Silverstein most recently directed the acclaimed Off Broadway world premiere of The Temperamentals by Jon Marans, produced by Daryl Roth, Stacy Shane and Martian Entertainment (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble). Other Off Broadway credits include revivals of A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room (Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Director; Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble) and Robert Anderson's classics Tea and Sympathy and I Never Sang for My Father, and John Patrick's The Hasty Heart, all for the Keen Company, where he serves as Resident Director. Other NY credits include: Cocteau’s Indiscretions (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble), Red Herring by Michael Albanese (New York International Fringe Festival; Outstanding Direction award), Blueprint by Bixby Elliot (Summer Play Festival), The Dadshuttle (Drama League DirectorFest 2003), The Rats Are Getting Bigger (New York International Fringe Festival and The Public Theatre's New Works Now! festival), A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble), Greater Messapia (Queens Theatre in the Park) and The Train Play (Clubbed Thumb).

 

Regional credits include: The Fantasticks (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Merton of the Movies and Marry Me a Little (Dorset Theatre Festival) The Triumph of Love (Cleveland Play House), Urinetown and Tick, Tick, BOOM! (Cape Rep Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing and Cymbeline (The Theatre at Monmouth) and Ionesco's The Chairs (San Diego’s Sledgehammer Theatre).

 

Jonathan has taught directing at C.W. Post College/LIU and acting at U.C.S.D., where he served as coordinator of graduate Teaching Assistants and helped revitalize the Introduction to Acting syllabus. He has been a regular director with The Department of Dramatic Writing at N.Y.U. and has mentored student directors at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. He has directed educationally at The Cleveland Play House, MCC, Columbia University, C.W. Post, and U.C.S.D.

 

Jonathan is a graduate of the MFA directing program at UCSD and an alumnus of The Drama League Directors Project. Member, SDC.