Jonathan West

Jonathan West began acting in July of 2009 when cast in the Detroit independent film as 'Tim, Sr.' in Horizon Films' Happy Holiday, written by Harry Arnold and co-directed by Samuel Long and Caroline Rankin. He then made his theatrical debut in December of 2009 at 1515 Broadway in Detroit, as 'Jonathan Lewis' in MLB Entertainment's Shades of War, written by Dara Harper and directed by David Harper. Having debuted earlier the same year in New York, he was brought back for a Detroit reprisal in October of 2010 at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, this time as the lead role of 'Samuel Francis.'For the next few years Jonathan worked with a number of independent production companies on both short and feature length films (notably, performing as the lead, 'Marcus Duney Smalls' in WCT Entertainment's Lovers and Friends, written by Camara Davis and directed by Anthony Anderson) along with theatre companies throughout Michigan. He was graciously allowed to sign with Productions Plus / The Talent Shop, an agency out of Michigan that also represents artists in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, and he began professionally acting full time in August of 2013. He ended that year with a move to New York where he performed at Blessed Unrest's Interart Theater as 'Alexander Bushkin' in Empirical Rogue's theatre immersive Suicide!?, written by Nikolai Erdman and adapted and directed by Tim Eliot.In 2014, Jonathan was up at The Tank, as the 'Husband,' in Big Intimacy Group's short play cycle Autobahn, written by Neil Labute and directed by Rob Mueller, and continued work at Columbia Stages, as 'Julius Caesar,' in The Oracular Theatre's Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare and directed by Damon Horowitz and Sybille Bruun-Moss. He went back to Michigan for Ann Arbor's Performance Network Theatre's Richard III, as 'King Edward / James Tyrrel / Cardinal Bourchier,' again written by William Shakespeare and directed by Julia Glander, and also shot a featured role as 'Bunker Solider' in Warner Brother's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, written by Chris Terrio and David Goyer and directed by Zak Snyder.Starting 2015 in Michigan, Jonathan went back to the Performance Network as 'Eugene' in Yellowman, written by Dael Orlandersmith and directed by Lynch Travis, before heading back to New York to shoot the featured role of 'Irish's Thug' in Process Media's Wolves, written and directed by Bart Fruendlich. Late Autumn saw a flurry of theatrical activity, first with his work as the 'Narrator' in the Thespis Festival's 100 Aker Wood at the Hudson Guild Theatre, then as 'Lennox' in Fab Marquee's adaption Macbeth (of the Oppressed) at the Theater at the 14th Street Y, then as 'Claudius / Poisoner / Tragedian / Pirate' in Onomatopoeia's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead at the Gene Frankel, as 'Carl' in Panda Theater Company's adaption What's in Alaska? at The Hive, and lastly as 'Leopard of the Terrible Teeth' in Uzuri Dance Theatre's Anansi the Spider at the TADA! Youth Theater.2016 began much in the same theatrical vein, as Jonathan is working once again on Columbia Stages as 'J. Robert Oppenheimer' in The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, written by Carson Kreitzer and directed by Sara Rademacher, and as 'Officer Welch' in Hunterdon Hills Playhouse's Rumors, written by Neil Simon and directed by Ken Schwartz.Jonathan currently resides in New York City. Show less «