AuthorSpeak : Meet the Playwright - Jonathan Winn

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Join playwright and director Jonathan Winn for a conversation about his new play Fools’ Paradise, premiering this spring with Thrown Stone Theatre Company.

Set in an opulent Caribbean resort as the world outside unravels, Fools’ Paradise is a dark comedy about luxury, escapism, and wishful thinking in uncertain times. 

Winn, Thrown Stone’s Co-Artistic Director, will share the creative process behind the play — and why making theatre in moments like these feels more urgent than ever.

Jonathan Winn

Jonathan Winn is a founder, Co-Artistic Director, and Executive Director of Thrown Stone, where he directed the 2023 world premiere of Seven Cousins for a Horse by Tammy Ryan and the 2018 New England premiere of The Arsonists by Jacqueline Goldfinger. 

He performed the role of Danny in the 2017 U.S. premiere of Ross Dunsmore’s Milk, and Mitchell in the 2019 Connecticut Premiere of Cry It Out by Molly Smith Metzler. 
Jonathan is the author of two plays, The Flathead Lake Monster and Fools’ Paradise.

Jonathan has performed, directed, and produced theatre extensively in Los Angeles, New York, and Montana. He directed the world premiere of Passchendaele by John Rafter Lee at the New York International Fringe Festival. 
He has acted in new plays by John Guare (Lydie Breeze, West Coast Premiere, Open Fist Theatre Company), David Edgar (Pentecost, Los Angeles Premiere, Evidence Room), Paul Mullin (An American Book of the Dead*, The Game Show†, World Premiere, Circle X Theatre Company, and Grendel, World Premiere, Circle X Theatre Company), Melanie Marnich (Blur, West Coast Premiere, Meadows Basement Theatre Company), George Larkin (Trés Grimm, World Premiere, The MET Theatre), Pete Edwards (Size Ten or G-Men, World Premiere, Troy Rep) and numerous others.

 Jonathan earned his BFA in Theatre from the University of Southern California and apprenticed at the La Jolla Playhouse. 
He also holds a Masters in User Experience (UX) Research and Design from the University of Michigan.

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