Jonathan Marc Sherman writes plays when he isn’t acting. He was born in Morristown, New Jersey, in 1968, graduated from Bennington College, and lives in New York City. His plays include THINGS WE WANT; CLIVE; KNICKERBOCKER; EVOLUTION; SOPHISTRY; WONDERFUL TIME; VEINS AND THUMBTACKS; SERENDIPITY AND SERENITY; JESUS ON THE OIL TANK; SONS AND FATHERS; and WOMEN AND WALLACE. His plays have been performed at Malaparte, The Public Theater, The New Group, Playwrights Horizons, WPA Theater, Los Angeles Theatre Center, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival, as well as in England, Australia, Israel, Istanbul, and Japan. He’s written the books for the musicals THE CONNECTOR; BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE; and THE FORGOTTEN ARM. He’s also co-writing and producing Richard Linklater’s movie adaptation of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG for many years to come. He adapted WOMEN AND WALLACE for PBS-TV's American Playhouse, and VEINS AND THUMBTACKS is the basis for Frank Whaley's movie THE JIMMY SHOW. He won a BerillaKerr Grant, the 21st Century Playwrights Festival, and the Young Playwrights Festival (twice). He is a member of LAByrinth Theater Company, and co-founded the Malaparte theater company. His hobby is writing about himself in the third person.