Jonathan Feldman

Lyricist Playwright

Jonathan Marc Feldman is an American playwright and screenwriter. Jonathan has written the book and lyrics for two musicals currently in development, “Never Grimm” (with music by Neil Berg), producers Raymond Wu and Mark Gordon, director Leigh Silverman,  and “Swing Kids” based on his movie of the same title, producers Daryl Roth and Walk Run Fly, and director Rob Ashford. Jonathan’s play “The Death of the Novel” was produced by San Jose Rep and starred Vincent Kartheiser from Mad Men. Jonathan’s first play “The Buddy System” was produced when he was 21 at Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park and subsequently at Circle In The Square in New York. His plays have been given readings or workshops at Berkeley Rep, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, San Jose Rep, and The Rubicon Theater. Jonathan was a playwright in residence at Circle Repertory Company where his play, “The Paper Boy” was in the pips series.

 

Jonathan was invited to the Sundance Lab with his screenplay for Swing Kids, which was subsequently produced and released by Disney. He worked on multiple episodes for the HBO series “From The Earth To The Moon.” As a screenwriter he has sold and or been commissioned to write over 20 screenplays for a variety of independents and every major studio. He has written scripts for Tom Hanks, Edward Zwick, Barry Levinsohn, Michael Douglas, Sydney Pollack, Kathy Kennedy, Merchant Ivory, Pierce Brosnan, Amblin, Mark Gordon and many others. He has written pilots for Brillstein Grey, Sony and ABC.

 

He has  recently written the feature script WE LOVE YOU, CHARLIE FREEMAN based on the book by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Sovereign Films. Production is slated for summer 2018. And he is just completed writing the screenplay for a new adaptation of HUCKLEBERRY FINN also for Sovereign. His is currently writing and developing a ten-part mini-series for Sony and Zinman and Massett, based on Alex Kershaw’s book, “The Few.” He is also developing and producing a series based on Kershaw's best-seller "Avenue is Spies" for Anne Thomopoulis (Rome, Britannia, The Collection, Versailles). He is also developing a mini series about the legendary Jenkins Orphanage Band and the birth of Jazz with director Charles Randolph Randolph Wright and Brandon Victor Dixon.