Jonathan B. Wright

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Jonathan B. Wright

Born	December 13, 1986 (1986-12-13) (age 21)
Occupation	Broadway theatre actor
Years active	2001–present
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Jonathan B. Wright (born December 13, 1986) is a American actor who is best known for his performance as Hanschen, in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Spring Awakening.^[1]

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Jonathan started acting at the age of 14 at the Creative And Performing Arts magnet program (CAPA) located at Winston Churchill High School in Livonia, Michigan. Within CAPA, Jonathan was cast in several productions including:

Brigadoon – New Yorker
You Can't Take It with You – Ed Carmichael
Stage Door – Adolph Gretzel
A Midsummer Night's Dream – Snug
Les Miserables – Bishop and Monparnasse
Dancing at Lughnasa – Michael Evans
Li'l Abner – Abner
A Piece of My Heart – Ensemble
Into the Woods – The Baker
A Streetcar Named Desire – Stanley Kowalski
The Crucible – Reverend John Hale
Macbeth – Macduff

Jonathan won a prestige's scholarship to the Cranbrook Summer Theater in his junior year of high school, where he played Romeo in a production of Romeo and Juliet. In 2003, he was cast in Jake Heggie's opera Dead Man Walking at the Michigan Opera Theater. At the age of 16, Jonathan came to New York and attended the summer acting workshop at The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. Upon graduation from high school in 2005, returned to New York to become the youngest member of The Actors Center's nine month conservatory program. Jonathan auditioned in 2005 for a role in the Off-Broadway musical production of Spring Awakening at the Atlantic Theater Company. Jonathan was cast in the role of Hanschen, the choir boy who seduces his fellow male classmate, for which he has received rave reviews, being cited by some as a scene-stealer. He continued with Spring Awakening as it moved to Broadway and went on to win 8 Tony awards. Wright's final performance was on April 20, 2008.