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Jonathan Yukich, M.F.A.

Professor of Practice
Coordinator, Theater Arts

Department of Music, Theater, and Dance
College of Arts and Sciences

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Jonathan Yukich

Education

M.F.A., Indiana University
B.A., University of Alabama

About Jonathan

Jonathan Yukich has taught at the University of New Haven for over a decade. In this time, he has directed university productions of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, 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.

As 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.

Teaching Interests

  • Playwriting
  • Script Analysis
  • New Play Development
  • Intro. to Theater
  • Structure of Drama
  • Dramatic Literature
  • Devising Theater
  • Directing
  • Arts Journalism
  • Acting

Published Works

  • A(I) Christmas Carol
    Published by Pioneer Drama - Fall 2026
  • The Real Housewives of Shakespeare
    Published by Pioneer Drama - Fall 2025
  • 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

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