Jonathan Cook
Biography
Jonathan Cook is an award-winning playwright and film-maker based in South Carolina. Many of his stage plays have been produced around the World and he's a four-time recipient of the Porter Fleming Literary Award. He is also the host and main writer of the podcast GATHER BY THE GHOST LIGHT. Launched in 2020, GATHER BY THE GHOST LIGHT is a collection of his stage plays adapted to an audio only format performed by voice actors and edited with appropriate sound effects and music.
Known For & Full Filmography5 Titles
Drama Series - 2025, 16 episodes • as Lab Security Guard #1
After the events of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, technology is pitted against magic when Riri Williams, a young, genius inventor determined to make her mark on the world, returns to her hometown of Chicago. Her unique take on building iron suits is brilliant, but in pursuit of her ambitions, she finds herself wrapped up with the mysterious yet charming Parker Robbins aka "The Hood."
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The world has died, but love survives.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Friar Lawrence
Friar Lawrence brings news of banishment to Romeo
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Father
A thief gets more than he bargained for when he steals a video tape containing various stories that each tell a story about a mysterious artifact.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as David / Dad
After traveling across a wasteland of pestilence and famine in search of a mysterious object, a lone woman (Rachel Miller) finds refuge at Seven Bowls Tavern. It becomes apparent after sharing some drinks with a shadowy figure (Krys Bailey) that her arrival was not mere chance. As his stories about the Arte Factum unfold and draw her in, her presence at the tavern begins to attract the horsemen. One by one they ride in and fill Seven Bowls until she decides it’s time to bid them all adios. Wages of Cine presents an anthology of twelve tales that transverse space and time following a mysterious object known as the “Arte Factum”.