Jonathan Warman, Director

Jonathan Warman, director Jonathan Warman, Director

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I directed the critically acclaimed New York Premiere of one of Tennessee Williams most wildly creative late plays, Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws, starring Mink Stole and Everett Quinton. The production opened the 50th Anniversary Season at The Club at LaMaMa ETC. Conversations in a restaurant between two socialite women friends, a roughed up pregnant waitress, two young gay hustlers with pink leather jackets emblazoned with “The Mystic Rose”, and a lecherous, prophetic restaurant manager. Apocalyptic, funny, musical, physical, wild, futuristic, shamanistic.

The reviews for Now the Cats were fantastic! Here are some samples:

"The director, Jonathan Warman, has encouraged a flamboyant presentational style that emphasizes coherence over flair."
- Jasonn Zinoman, New York Times

"Thanks to the imagination of director Jonathan Warman and his enthusiastic cast, it makes for an outrageously entertaining 50 minutes...Warman mixes Williams' diverse elements skillfully, letting them jostle gently about, feeding rather than fighting each other." - Erik Haagensen, Backstage

“Fearlessly directed by Jonathan Warman, who fully embraces the play’s grotesque beauty.” - Brandon Voss, The Advocate

“Thanks to the surehanded staging from director Jonathan Warman and a fine cast, this mere squib of a play provokes both laughs and thought.” - Andy Probst, Theatermania.com

“Warman more than matches the piece’s phantasmagorical style...Warman elicits exquisite performances from his cast that are at once real and larger-than-life.”
- Heathher J. Violanti, NYTheatre.com

Regina Bartkoff, Mink Stole, Everett Quinton and Erin Markey
in director Jonathan Warman's production of Tennesee Williams's Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws. Photo credit: Yuriy Nayer.

Jonathan Warman (Director) New York Theatre: New York premiere of Tennessee Williams's Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws (La MaMa ETC, featuring Mink Stole and Everett Quinton), Andru’s Head (new musical, featuring Brooke Elliott (Lifetime's “Drop Dead Diva”), NeoNeo Theatre), Struck / Break (Emerging Artists Theatre), American Fabulous (NeoNeo Theatre), Kitchenette (Theatre Row Studio Theatre), Groupies, In Loco Parentis (Present Company / FringeNYC), Love in the Time of Chlamydia (Hard Sparks),The Women of the Mahabharata (eyeBLINK). International: Dreams Reoccurring (Clubul CFR, Iasi, Romania; Nu Festival, Timisoara, Romania), Break (Dublin Gay Theatre Festival). Regional: Heads (Omaha Magic Theatre), The Strangest Kind of Romance (Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival; Omnova Theater, Columbus, Mississippi; Theatre Sewanee, Tennessee), Struck/Break (New Orleans Fringe Festival), Rogan Gosh (Star of the East, Omaha), Mad Forest, Hamletmachine (University of Nebraska at Omaha). Notable assistant credits: Stage Directors & Choreographers Society 50th Anniversary Gala (Assistant to SDC Board President Karen Azenberg),Three Sisters (La MaMa ETC, dir. Richard Schechner), Rosencrantz si Guildenstern sunt Morti (Teatru National Vasile Alecsandri, Iasi, Romania, dir. Ovidiu Lazar). Member of SDC. He has served as Artistic Director of NeoNeo Theatre Company and Literary Manager for Access TheaterFor more info, see jonathanwarman.com.