Jonathan Silverstein was awarded "Outstanding Direction" for his work on Red Herring at the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival Overall Excellence Awards. Jonathan also directed The Keen Company's critically praised revival of John Patrick's The Hasty Heart. Other credits include: The Triumph of Love (Cleveland Play House), Urinetown and Tick, Tick...BOOM! (Cape Rep Theatre), The Dadshuttle (DirectorFest 2003), The Rats Are Getting Bigger (New York International Fringe Festival and The Public Theatre's New Works Now! Festival), A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot (Phoenix Ensemble), Greater Messapia (Queens Theatre in the Park) and Much Ado About Nothing (The Theatre at Monmouth). Jonathan has worked at The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, The Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Primary Stages, The Signature Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, and San Diego's Sledgehammer Theatre. He is a graduate of the MFA directing program at UCSD and an alumnus of The Drama League Director's Project. Member, SSDC.
Jonathan currently teaches directing at C.W. Post College/LIU and has taught acting at U.C.S.D., where he served as coordinator of graduate Teaching Assistants and helped revitalize the Introduction to Acting syllabus. He is a regular director with The Department of Dramatic Writing at N.Y.U. and mentors student directors at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. He has directed educationally at The Cleveland Play House, MCC, Columbia University, C.W. Post, and U.C.S.D.