JONATHAN ABRAMS is a film and television writer/producer and theatrical book writer. His original screenplay, Juror #2, directed by Clint Eastwood, opened to rave reviews and was released theatrically worldwide by Warner Brothers on Nov 1, 2024. It subsequently made many Top 10 End of Year lists including: The New Yorker, Vulture, Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, Deadline and The Ringer. His musical, The Heart of Rock and Roll, inspired by the music of Huey Lewis and The News, for which he wrote the book, ran earlier this year at The James Earl Jones Theatre on Broadway. He is also the creator/writer/executive producer of the television series American Hiro for FX, about the life of Benihana founder Hiroaki Aoki. Raised in San Francisco, he is a graduate of the USC school of Cinema-Television and is represented by Creative Artists Agency, Mosaic Media Group, McKuin Frankel & Whitehead as well as Shelter PR.