Press

Elmer and the Elder Tree

Shelburne Falls and West County Independent

"A unique environmental story integrating dance, clowning and theatre . . . By experiencing Elmer’s discoveries as a story, the play helps children understand ecosystems, plant life and humanity’s effect on the natural world.”

Catherine Fahy, "Piti Produces Environmental Fable"

Hampshire Gazzette

"Not the sort of children's show that plays to a passive audience . . . nor does the interaction end with the show."

- Dan Denicola

Riding the Wave.com

The New York Times

"A manic primer on the old saws of investing..."

Danny Hakim, "For a Reformed Wavoid, the Play's the Thing"

San Jose Mercury News

"Jonathan Mirin has written a play for our time . . . [he] . . . could be Silicon Valley's Poet Laureate."

Mike Cassidy, "Playwright Brings Stock Plight to Stage"

NyTheater.com

"There are very funny moments in Riding the Wave.com. Mirin is a performer with energy to burn."
- Kwesi Cameron

TheaterMirror.com

"And in a year when solo performances have been hard to find, RIDING THE WAVE.COM came along. Tall, stringy, athletic Jonathan Mirin wrote and performed this saga of addiction to the Stock Market in competition with spiritual insights found on the slopes of the Himalayas. He used circles and words and stock-quotations chalked on the floor of the tall little back theatre at Boston Playwrights' and hopped and skipped through an admitted journey from purchase of ten shares to paper-profits to margins to --- bankruptcy. Mirin wisely had Jason Grossman direct him, and that outside eye (and Haddon Kime's subtle sound-track) made the financial and spiritual mountains scaled certainly worth the journey." - Larry Stark

The Harbus (Harvard Business School Independent Student Weekly)

"Mirin took his HBS audience on a rollercoaster ride through the boom and bust of the late 90's internet era . . . in the end this was a story about a man - every man - consumed by greed and illusions. An apt story for those of us riding our own waves - searching for quick returns in our job searches and careers."

Cindy Ko, "Riding the Wave.com: Mirin's One Man Show Comes to HBS"

Testimonials

Elmer and the Elder Tree

Writing Funny

"Amazingly helpful . . . I feel reinvigorated about writing and also how my unique writing fits into the spectrum of comedy. Thank you."

- Ruby Fox, Solo Performer

Writing the 10 Minute Play

"Excellent . . . changed the way I write."

- Al Mangiatti, Teacher/Playwright

The Vision Workshop

"Extremely useful - [made me] think about organizational dynamics in new ways."

- Joan Whitaker, Director, Action for Boston Community Development Health Services

". . . helped me experience daily encounters in new, surprising ways."

- Gaella Elwell, Co-Owner and Founder, South River Miso Company

Writing/Performing Autobiography

"Great! I definitely made connections between creative writing and telling a story onstage. . ."

- Joanna Wright, student, Swarthmore College

Organizational Development & Theatre

"Jonathan brings a rare combination of gifts: theater arts, meditation, organization behavior, and just plain common sense . . . [he] has written plays and scenarios dramatically illuminating organizational issues. He did a great service to me in the professional direction he gave to my play Peace.

- Barry Oshry, Chief Theoretical Officer, Power and Systems