Jonathan Caren

Jonathan Caren is an American playwright, producer, and TV writer.

He co-executive produced Hulu's We Were the Lucky Ones and Netflix upcoming series Boots.

He was a member of the Primary Stages Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Dramatist Guild Fellow, a winner of New York Stage and Film Founder's Award, a fellowship recipient of SPACE at Ryder Farm, a two-time Lecomte du Nouy award winner, and a recipient of the Theater Publicus Prize for Dramatic Fiction. Additionally, he was a finalist for the Laurents/Hatcher Award and a nominee for the Otis Guerney New American Playwright's Award. He was also a member of Center Theatre Group's L.A. Writer's Workshop.

His play The Morning The Sun Fell Down was adapted into a feature by Choice Films, starring Danny Pudi.

He is a graduate of Juilliard's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and Vassar College, where he studied mythology and religion.

List of Works

Theatre Catch the Fish (New York International Fringe Festival 2007) Recipient of the Outstanding Play Award The Morning the Sun Fell Down (Manhattan Theatre Club "7@7" Series 2013) The Venerable Raman Gupta (New Group 2014 New Works Lab) Sundance Lab 2013 Finalist Need to Know (Colt Coeur Play Hotel 2015, Rogue Machine 2015) Los Angeles Times Critic's Pick Four Woke Baes (Edinburgh Festival 2019) Canyon (Center Theatre Group) The Recommendation (IAMA 2014, The Flea 2013, Old Globe 2012) Recipient of Craig Noel Award "Best New Play" 2012 Nominated for 2019 Jeff Theatre Award Recipient of 2014 Ovation Award for Outstanding Play Nominated for 23rd Annual NAACP Theatre Awards

Television Episode 1x04: "309" (Credited Story By, Teleplay By)

Episode 3x04: "Part IV" (Written by)

Episode 1x02: "The Buddy System" (Written by)