Jonathan Marc Sherman

Jonathan Marc Sherman is an American playwright, poet, screenwriter, actor, and film producer, born in Morristown in 1968. After attending Stagedoor Manor and Bennington College, he entered plays in the Young Playwrights competition for several years; Serendipity and Serenity had a staged reading in 1987, and Women and Wallace received a full production the following year. He was among the founders of the Malaparte theater company. His play Jesus on the Oil Tank won the 21st Century Playwrights Award, and the play Sons and Fathers was performed by Malaparte with Calista Flockhart, Josh Hamilton, and Ethan Hawke. Veins and Thumbtacks later provided the basis for Frank Whaley's movie The Jimmy Show. On screen, he has appeared in The Hottest State (2007), Blaze (2018), and tick, tick...BOOM! (2021).