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Jonathan Spector

Jonathan Spector

Playwright

Jul 27, 2026

11:16
So can you, Jonathan, can you tell us a little bit about the origin story of Birthright?
11:22
Yes.
11:24
Yeah, about back in, I don't know, I want to say late October 2023, I'd gotten a call from Michel Hausman, who runs Miami New Drama, who I knew a little bit, but I'd never worked there.
11:38
I'd never worked with him, but I liked him and talked about a couple of their projects in the past that hadn't panned out.
11:44
And he called me and said he wanted to commission me to write a play about, you know, sort of what was happening in the American Jewish community in this moment.
11:54
And I immediately said no, that that's it.
12:00
A terrible idea.

18 MINS LATER

29:42
But I'm curious, what did you see on stage there that you examined and thought, all right, this is what I got to work on? Or did you feel like this was a – This one was a perfect thing.

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