M.F.A., Indiana University
B.A., University of Alabama
Jonathan Yukich has taught at the University of New Haven for over a decade. In this time, he has directed university productions of The Wolves, Cabaret, A Chorus Line, Godspell, The Nether, Our Town, Psycho Beach Party, The Rocky Horror Show, The Maids, The Winter’s Tale, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later. He also advises and coordinates the program's biennial Student New Works Festival.
See MoreAs a playwright, Jonathan’s work is published by Broadway Play Publishing, Smith & Kraus, Playscripts, Inc., Eldridge Publishing, and Brooklyn Publishers, among others. His plays have been produced across the United States and in Canada, Australia, Asia, South Africa and Europe. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Award for Playwriting and the Shubert Fendrich Award. His play Alice@Wonderland, a contemporary retelling of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, has received over a thousand full productions worldwide since it was published by Pioneer Drama in 2013.
His textbook, Theatre Now: Reading It, Seeing It, Doing It, published by Cognella, is widely used in schools and colleges. Other popular and acclaimed published works include Killing the Bear, The Poe Show, Waking Sleepy Hollow, Finding Don Quixote, Reality Stars: Greek Gods Edition, and Frankenstein Unplugged. Many of his previously anthologized shorter plays can be found in his collection Scattered Plays: Eight Short Works.
Theatre Now: Reading It, Seeing It, Doing It
Published January 2023 – Cognella Publishing
Killing the Bear
Broadway Play Publishing - Fall 2019
One Hundred Monologues from New Plays- Women
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books - Fall 2019
The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019
"The Beast in Your Woods"
Smith & Kraus - Published Spring 2019
Hashtag Romeo
Pioneer Drama Service - Published Fall 2018
The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2017
"The Mime Crime"
Smith & Kraus - Published Fall 2017
222 More Comedy Monologues
Smith & Kraus - Published Spring 2017
Reality Stars: Greek Gods Edition
Eldridge Play Publishing - Published Winter 2017
Best 5-Minute Plays
"A Very Short Play About the Very Short Presidency of William Henry Harrison"
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books – Published January 2017
222 More Comedy Monologues
Smith & Kraus – Published August 2016
Waking Sleepy Hollow
Published Fall 2016
Finding Don Quixote
Heuer Publishing – Published January 2016
The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2015
"Crooked Fork"
Smith & Kraus – Published Summer 2015
The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2015
Smith & Kraus – Published Fall 2015
The Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2015
Smith & Kraus – Published Fall 2015
American Midget
Broadway Play Publishing – Published October 2014
Alice@Wonderland: The Musical
Pioneer Drama Service – Published January 2014
Alice@Wonderland
Pioneer Drama Service – Published July 2013
Frankenstein Unplugged
Eldridge Play Publishing – Published September 2011
The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2009
"A Short History of Weather"
Smith & Kraus – Published December 2009
More Scenes and Monologs from the Best New Plays
Meriwether Press – Published March 2007
The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2003
Smith & Kraus – Published April 2004
Thank You, Twenty Thousand Pound Man
Playscripts, Inc. – Published August 2002
Boiling People in My Coffee
Playscripts, Inc. – Published January 2001
In the Media
Jonathan Yukich, a lecturer in theater, and two other performers, discuss their plans to put on campus production of an abridged version of the complete works of William Shakespeare.
In the Media
Jonathan Yukich, a lecturer in theater, is taking on a rather ambitious project together with three University of New Haven students with a play that will showcase an abridged version of the complete works of William Shakespeare.
In the Media
Jonathan Yukich, a lecturer in theater, speaks about his play, which is part of the Dream Up Festival in New York City.