Jonathan Marc Sherman 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.
Plays
Serendipity and Serenity
1987. Young Playwrights Festival at Playwrights Horizons
Women and Wallace
1988. Foundation of the Dramatists Guild Young Playwrights Festival at Playwrights Horizons. Josh Hamilton as Wallace
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 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.
September–November, 1993. Playwrights Horizons. With Linda Atkinson, Nadia Dajani, Calista Flockhart, Ethan Hawke, Austin Pendleton, Anthony Rapp, Jonathan Marc Sherman, and Steve Zahn.
2002. 45 Below at Culture Project in New York City. Directed by Elizabeth Gottlieb. With Josh Hamilton , Larry Block, Peter Dinklage, Keira Naughton, Armando Riesco, and Ione Skye. Sets by Andromache Chalfant, Lights by Jeff Croiter, Costumes by Daphne Javitch, Video by Edmond Deraedt
2018 in Manchester UK; Hope Mill Theatre; Directed by Daniel Bradford. With Alex Phelps, William J Holstead, Paddy Young, Hannah Ellis Ryan.
Things We Want
2007. The New Group in New York City. Directed by Ethan Hawke. With Paul Dano, Peter Dinklage, Josh Hamilton , and Zoe Kazan. Sets by Derek McLane, Lights by Jeff Croiter, Costumes by Mattie Ulrich, Sound by Daniel Baker.
2009. Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. Directed by Nicholas Martin. With Brooks Ashmanskas, Peter Dinklage, Bob Dishy, Rightor Doyle, Annie Parisse, Susan Pourfar, and Reg Rogers. Sets by Alexander Dodge. Sound Design by Alex Neumann.
