Jonathan Caren is a writer of ABC's A Million Little Things.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Not much is known about Caren's early life. He originally hails from Los Angeles, and is a graduate of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and Vassar College where he studied mythology and religion.
Career[]
Caren is a playwright and TV writer. He also serves as an adjunct professor at NYU's Tisch School of The Arts, and is a member of The IAMA Theater Company.
Caren's plays include Need to Know (Colt Coeur Play Hotel, Rogue Machine), The Recommendation (IAMA, The Flea, The Old Globe, Windy City Playhouse 2019, Craig Noel Award for Best New Play, Ovation Best Play, NAACP nomination), and Catch The Fish (Most Outstanding Play NY Fringe), all published by DPS. His play Canyon received its world premiere in a co-production with The IAMA Theater Company and Latino Theater Company in 2019.
Caren is a member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer's Group at Primary Stages, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Dramatist Guild Fellow, The New York Stage and Film Founder's Award Winner, a two-time recipient of a Fellowship to SPACE @ Ryder Farm, a two-time Lecomte du Nouy award winner and a recipient of the Theater Publicus Prize for Dramatic Fiction. Additionally, he was a finalist for the Laurents/Hatcher Award, and a nominee for the Otis Guerney New American Playwright's Award.
In TV, Caren's first credit was writing for The CW's Melrose Place reboot. He served as a co-producer on NBC's Rise, and an executive story editor on Netflix's original drama Gypsy. Additionally, he's written pilots for FOX and CBS, with frequent collaborator Jason Winer and is currently in development with Bill Lawrence.
In 2018, Caren wrote an episode of ABC's A Million Little Things.[1]
Personal life[]
Caren married Meghan Kennedy on October 27, 2018.[2]
Credits[]
Writer[]
| A Million Little Things: Season 1 | ||||||||||
| "Pilot": | "Band of Dads": | "Save the Date": | "Friday Night Dinner": | "The Game of Your Life": | "Unexpected": | "I Dare You": | "Fight or Flight": | "Perspective": | ||
| No Credit | No Credit | No Credit | No Credit | No Credit | No Credit | No Credit | No Credit | Credited | ||
| "Christmas Wishlist": | "Secrets and Lies": | "The Day Before...": | "Twelve Seconds": | "Someday": | "The Rock": | "The Rosary": | "Goodbye": | |||
| No Credit | No Credit | No Credit | No Credit | No Credit | No Credit | No Credit | No Credit | |||
External links[]
References[]
- ↑ A Million LIttle Things: perspective (12/5), by ABC, Disneyabcpress.com (November 19, 2018)
- ↑ Getting married tomorrow, by Jonathan Caren, Twitter (October 26, 2018)
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