Resume

Film

Bye Bye Benjamin	Supporting	Charlie McDowell / AFI
Side Effect	Lead	Liz Adams / AFI
I Am Bad	Supporting	David Rackoff
A Postcard from the Volcano	Lead	Josh Tate
Victims of Love	Supporting	Justin Lutsky
No One Island	Supporting	Stacy Marr

Television

Criminal Minds	Recurring	Rob Spera / ABC
MAD MEN	Co-Star	Ed Bianchi / AMC
Carnivale	Co-Star	Jeremy Podeswa / HBO
NCIS	Co-Star	Arvin Brown / CBS
ER	Co-Star	Andrew Bernstein / NBC
Malcolm in the Middle	Co-Star	Steve Love / FOX

Theater

Surviving Sex (world premiere)	Stan (us)	Falcon Theatre
Bluebonnet Court (world premiere)	Roy Glenn	Hudson Mainstage Theatre
Tevye! (staged reading)	Charles	El Portal Theatre
Guys & Dolls	Nicely-Nicely (us)	Interact Theatre Co. / John Rubinstein
Broadway Showstoppers I	Soloist (opposite Jason Alexander)	Interact Theatre Co. / John Rubinstein
Broadway Showstoppers II	Soloist (opposite Robert Morse)	Interact Theatre Co. / John Rubinstein
Our Town	Sam Craig	Interact Theatre Co. / Mariclare Costello
Rumors	Glenn Cooper	Theatre East
Charlie’s Aunt	Jack Chesney	Glendale Centre Theatre
A Chorus of Disapproval	Guy Jones	Long Beach Playhouse

Internet

SOLO – The Series	Lead (Creator & Writer)	WatchSOLO.com
Ask You Movie Review	Host	AskYouMovieReview.com

Performer Skills

Athletic Skills: Rollerblading, Bowling
Accents: Impeccable British (northern), Cockney, East Texas, German, Midwest, Southern, Russian
Performance Skills: Improvisation, Stage Combat, Voiceover, Singing

Education

University of Illinois , Champaign/Urbana, Illinois, B.F.A., 1994
British American Drama Academy , Oxford, England

Training

Kalmenson & Kalmenson , Burbank, CA, Voice Over Training
Margie Haber Studios , Hollywood, CA, Audition Technique, Courtney Burr
Atelier L.A. , Studio City, CA, Scene study, Diana Stevenson
The Second City , Hollywood, CA, Improvisation
Harvey Lembeck Comedy Workshop , Hollywood, CA, Comedy
Los Angeles Fight Academy , Los Angeles, CA, stage combat, Payson Burt
Tepper/Gallegos , Los Angeles, CA, On-camera Commercial

Videos:

Jonathan’s Commercial Reel

Featured: Cox Communications (current national spokesman – 4 spots) and Alka-Seltzer Cold Medicine

“Alka Seltzer Cold Medicine” – Commercial

Oh, and oldie, but goodie! My first national commercial was for Alka Seltzer Cold Medicine from way back when. Enjoy.
One little note… Those are not my “sighs of relief” you are hearing. Professional “sigher” was hired. Ah, advertising!

Sundance – Day 2

A very ambitious day, to say the least. Up at 6:30am with only two hours of sleep with my first screening at 8:30am – “Humpday”. It was an extremely funny film. And then two more screenings and a group dinner at the condo. Wish I had taken more video, to be honest.
Films I saw on [...]

Sundance 2009 – Day 1

Josh Tate and I are exploring and reviewing the films at Sundance 2009! Well, I’m just watching, he’s doing all the real work. Anyway, this is some vids from our first day. Enjoy!

Victims of Love (2009)

Starring: Katie Amanda Keane, Paul Papadakis, Sean Naughton, Jonathan Nail, April Hall, Maggie McCollesterr and Wesley Freitas.
Produced and Directed by Justin Lutsky
Ryan Parrot, Writer; Jeff Dolen, Cinematographer; Dorothy Street, Production Designer; Kyle Higgins & Alec Siegel, Sound Design; Joe Clark, Composer; Keegan Wilcox, Associate Producer.
An Epic Image Entertainment Production. ©2008 Epic Image Entertainment. All Rights [...]

SIDE EFFECT (2008, trailer)

In the short film, SIDE EFFECT, Lauren is an attractive, over-achieving, young woman and the new babysitter for the upper-middle-class couple, The Allens. With the trusted Lauren in charge of their adorable children, the couple head out for the night.
Written and Directed by Liz Adams.
Starring: Virginia Newcomb, Suzy Cote, Jonathan Nail, Daniel Zykov, Matt Lageman
Krishna [...]