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ARTIST
Singer. Musician. Writer. Producer. Director. Arranger. Lyricist. Composer. Music Director. Creative Consultant.
Jonah is truly an entertainment Jack-Of-All-Trades, with years of high level professional experience in a wealth of roles across the industry. Jonah has worked as a network TV writer, a director of theater, improv, and digital comedy, a producer across all mediums, a vocal arranger extraordinaire, and is a highly sought after singer and musician.
The Definition of a Multi-Hyphenate
Musician
As an accomplished singer and musician, Jonah has performed his signature solos shows at concerts, galas, and classic venues all over the country from Brooklyn’s Barclay Center to Philly’s Trocadero to the classic Troubadour in Hollywood. His recorded performances have millions of views on Youtube and hundreds of thousands of plays on Spotify.
As a vocal arranger, Jonah has created dozens of lush arrangements in his unique vocal style for a variety of projects...
Writer
Jonah is the only person in Hollywood to have worked in writers’ rooms under comedy showrunning legends Greg Daniels (THE OFFICE), Mike Schur (PARKS AND RECREATION), Mitch Hurwitz (RUNNING WILDE) and Seth MacFarlane (FAMILY GUY). He has also written for NBC’s MR. ROBINSON, Fuse’s BILLY ON THE STREET, and Cartoon Network’s ANNOYING ORANGE series. He most recently sold an original adult animated TV series to Apple+, and is currently penning the lyrics and co-writing the music for the musical stage adaptation of Lois Lowry’s bestselling classic young adult novel, THE GIVER.
“Musical Director and Arranger, Jonah Platt… manage[s] to achieve a technical and musically compelling storyline… Every familiar song receives a fresh arrangement and each voice enhances and elevates the original material… a musical experience you won’t soon forget.”
“Jonah Platt’s perceptive direction…is both sensitive and desensitizing, which is a dynamic combination that makes for exciting theater…some of the finest dramatic sections seen not just at the Fringe but on any L.A. stage this year.”
“While what he has accomplished in his writing career is astounding, Platt’s acting and directing resume is no less impressive.”
“You know who is awesome though? Jonah Platt, that's who. With a hand in ten out of the fourteen arrangements on this album, as well as one of the grittiest solos I've ever heard (The Kill, take note, CARA "Best Soloist" nominators), this guy sounds like a force to be reckoned with.”
Director
As a director, Jonah has used his creative artistry to enhance a variety of projects with many different collaborators. On stage, he directed the critically lauded, twice extended DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD with a cast of actual teenagers at The Blank Theater in LA, which was awarded a Hollywood Fringe Festival Encore Selection. He also directed (and performed in) ONE NIGHT STAND: AN IMPROVISED MUSICAL, which performed hourlong completely improvised musicals around the world, including sold-out runs at Hollywood’s Hudson Theater, the New York Musical Theater Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival – the world’s largest performing arts festival.
Most recently, he directed a World Premiere public reading of IRENA, a musical about Holocaust-era hero Irena Sendler, written by Megan Cavallero and Kait Kerrigan, accompanied by the Los Angeles Jewish Philharmonic. He has also directed a number of digital shorts, pilots and music videos, including his own musical parody BREI BREI BREI for Kveller.com.
Producer
Jonah’s work as a producer has covered a variety of different mediums and formats. On screen, Jonah has produced such diverse projects as the animated short COLD FEET (Toronto International Film Festival), short films BAT MITZVAH CONFIDENTIAL and STEALING SUBURBIA, a commercial for social media giant Snapchat, and the music video for Sage and the Saints’ TAKE ME TO THE SOUTH, directed by Kristen Stewart. He has also produced digital content for Facts for Peace, featuring mega influencers/ Israel advocates Montana Tucker and Rudy Rochman.
Currently, Jonah is producing his first full-length feature, THE MENSCH, in which he’ll also co-star alongside Ginnifer Goodwin. He is also a co-executive producer on the upcoming film OVER THE HILL, starring F. Murray Abraham.