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Jonathan Winn

Jonathan Winn is a founder, Co-Artistic Director, and Executive Director of Thrown Stone. Highlights include the 2026 off-Broadway world premiere of The Waterfall by Phanésia Pharel at WP Theater, which Thrown Stone co-produced; he directed the 2023 world premiere of Seven Cousins for a Horse by Tammy Ryan and the 2018 New England premiere of The Arsonists by Jacqueline Goldfinger; he performed the role of Danny in the 2017 U.S. premiere of Ross Dunsmore’s Milk, and Mitchell in the 2019 Connecticut Premiere of Cry It Out by Molly Smith Metzler; Thrown Stone produced the world premiere of his play Fools’ Paradise in 2025.

Jonathan is also a CollectiveCT Fellow at Yale Ventures, where he founded Winn City Studios, an audio drama production company, and Subscript, an audio drama distribution platform which premiered his play Relief Society at the 2026 Yale Innovation Summit. Other works in development include the full-length plays Andermatt and The Flathead Lake Monster, and the short play, Filament.

Jonathan has performed, directed, and produced theatre extensively in Los Angeles, New York, and Montana. He directed the world premiere of Passchendaele by John Rafter Lee at the New York International Fringe Festival. He has acted in new plays by John Guare (Lydie Breeze, West Coast Premiere, Open Fist Theatre Company), David Edgar (Pentecost, Los Angeles Premiere, Evidence Room), Paul Mullin (An American Book of the Dead*, The Game Show†, World Premiere, Circle X Theatre Company, and Grendel, World Premiere, Circle X Theatre Company), Melanie Marnich (Blur, West Coast Premiere, Meadows Basement Theatre Company), George Larkin (Trés Grimm, World Premiere, The MET Theatre), Pete Edwards (Size Ten or G-Men, World Premiere, Troy Rep) and numerous others. Jonathan earned his BFA in Theatre from the University of Southern California and apprenticed at the La Jolla Playhouse. He also holds a Masters in User Experience (UX) Research and Design from the University of Michigan.