Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Jonathan Caren

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013

Jonathan Caren's plays include The Recommendation (The Old Globe, 2012 Craig Noel Outstanding Play, The Flea 2013), The Morning the Sun Fell Down(MTC 2013 7@7), The Venerable Raman Gupta (Sundance Lab 2013 Finalist), Open Heart Meditation (Ars Nova Out Loud 2011), and Catch the Fish (NY Fringe, Outstanding Play). Caren is a 2011-12 Dramatist Guild Fellow, 2011 New York Stage And Film Founder's Award, T.S Eliot Old Vic/New Voices Network member, SPACE @ Ryder Farm fellow, and two-time Lecomte du Nouy Award winner. Jonathan graduated from the The Juilliard School and Vassar College,, where he studied mythology and religion.

Studios

Veltin

Jonathan Caren worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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