Jonathan James Cramer

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Jonathan James Cramer (1975- ) is a storyteller, musician, arc welder, and author.

He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, in the United States. He graduated from Hollis/Brookline High School, Hollis, New Hampshire, in 1993, and from the University of New Hampshire in Durham with a major in French in 1997. He received a Masters in English Literature from Université Laval in Quebec, Canada, in 1999.

Cramer is the founder of the comedic music group The Tortured Geniuses. Original group members included Christopher Carney, Jason Beaulieu and Dennison Teravainen.

Principal works of theatre in English
  • Raiding Quade's Cupboards (1995)
  • The Ken (1996)
  • Spaniards and Everything After (1996)
  • Alfred de Musset is boring (1997)
  • Feathers Tickle, You Know? (1997)
  • Promises of Promiscuity (1997)
  • Brendan Quigley is a Genius (1997)
  • Syndrome of the Blank Page (1998)
  • Everyone Thinks You're a Tosser (1999)
  • Jackie Clarke Won't Sleep With Me (1999)
  • Tapestry of Capillaries (2000)
  • Divine Projection Onto Humble Canvas (2000)
  • Jerry and the Civil War Musket (2001)
  • Unseen Powers of the Brick Oven (2004)
  • Tarpin King is an intellectual adventure (2006)
Principal works in French
  • Les Embrayages (2002)
  • Le Cartographe (2003)
  • Tant de Plants (2003)
  • Tirroir 98 (2005)
  • L'enterrement (2005)
Novels
  • Pizza and Puppets (2005)
Radio