Jonathan Spector

Jonathan Spector is a playwright based in Oakland, California. His play Eureka Day was produced last summer by Colt Coeur (NYT Critics' Pick).

I’d say the main journey in all of my plays is a digging process, where a reality is presented, and we see below that, and then we see below that. With The Headlands, it’s the genre of a mystery, so there is inherently going to be a process where you dig to solve the mystery. But, yeah, I always like to challenge myself to find ways of making that digging and uncovering process as visceral as possible. That’s why I write plays, in a bigger spiritual sense, in order to uncover more about the world and challenge myself to see the world in a different way. So it’s the process itself that I want to capture, because it’s kind of a sacred process, this uncovering and digging process. 
Playwright Christopher Chen.  Photo: Sasha Arutyunova.

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