Biography

Jonathan is a graduate of New York University at the Experimental Theatre Wing, 1998.

He performed with Big Dance Company at Dance Theatre Workshop, HERE Independent Arts and the Viewpoints Conference in New York as well as the Exit and Via Festivals in France and the Polverigi Festival in Italy.

Emma Thompson bared her backside on the opening day of filming the TV movie Wit to help her co-star relax. The actress plays terminally ill cancer patient Vivian Bearing in the movie, directed by Mike Nichols, and when she realized her co-star Jonathan Woodward felt awkward poking her on his first day of filming she set about helping him relax. Woodward made his movie debut as Bearing's doctor in Wit. Nicholls recalls, "He was almost passing out, trying to fake putting his arm inside Emma. Suddenly she leaned forward, hiked up her gown, and said airily, `Feel free to rummage.'"

New York theatre credits include Snapshots, Joy In Sorrow, The Lovely Comet, Space Emergency!, Big & Little,Marat/Sade and A Respectable Wedding, all at entirely respectable theatres.