Jonathan is a creative director, producer, and educator working at the intersection of immersive technology and live performance. At the University of Maryland, he is a faculty member in the Immersive Media Design (IMD) program. There, he is leading research into the narrative and user experience design possibilities of augmented and virtual reality and training students from across campus for future careers that will utilize spatial technologies.   In 2021, he launched the IMD New Works Incubator, an innovative summer program that brings together students from across campus to create and build immersive media experiences for live audiences. At UMD he is the Director of “DANCExDANCE.” A research and performance project that combines dance, robotics, and audience interactions to explore our collective feelings about the future of wearable technology. Jonathan is the Co-Artistic Director of Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative (SMC), an award-winning, non-profit production company that creates original works for theater, VR/XR, and the web around socially relevant themes.  SMC’s work has been presented at arts festivals and institutions across the US, South Africa, Germany, and the UK. Recent projects with Smoke & Mirrors include the VR experience, “City of Sand,” winner of an Oculus Launch Pad grant and the documentary web-series, "Tangible Hope Project" (Best Documentary Series-Baltimore Next Media Web Festival), about communities creating positive change across America.
He is also a pioneer in VR performance technique as a part of the groundbreaking studios Ferryman Collective and Double Eye Studios and was a puppeteer in the original Broadway casts of “War Horse” and “Life of Pi.” He has been a speaker on immersive performance at SXSW, NYU, UMD, Reconnect Festival, and University of the Arts, Zurich and is a consultant on acting in VR.