Jonathan Dorf

Teaches at Screenwriters University

Playwright and screenwriter Jonathan Dorf has had his plays produced in over forty-five states, as well as in Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. He has been a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award and has worked with such companies as the Walnut Street Theatre, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Ensemble Studio Theatre – LA, Moving Arts and the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. 

He co-founded YouthPLAYS, the publisher of plays for young actors and audiences, and other plays are published by Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers, Heuer, Original Works, Meriwether, and Smith & Kraus. He is the resident playwriting expert for Final Draft (for whom he created the playwriting “Ask the Expert”) and The Writers Store (creator of Playwriting101.com), the co-chair of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and the former managing director of the Philadelphia Dramatists Center. He is also a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. For screen, he has written a trio of produced shorts, as well as a number of feature scripts. 

He has taught playwriting workshops at schools and festivals across the country and as far afield as Singapore, and most recently served as Visiting Associate Professor in the Hollins University (Roanoke, VA) MFA playwriting and children’s literature programs and as US cultural envoy to Barbados. He holds a BA in Dramatic Writing and Literature from Harvard University and an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA.