Jonathon Benjamin is a Seattle-based playwright and author, originally from Fort Lewis, Washington. Coming from a long genealogical line of Army veterans, he broke tradition and enlisted into the US Air Force in 2010. He was stationed in England with the Air Force when, after a nearly fatal accident and over 3 years in hospital care, he was medically retired. Jonathon honorably served for 5 years, 12 days and 4.5 hours as an Airman and, being one for the dramatics of persevering resilience, he was accepted to and enrolled at the George Washington University in 2015, the same year that he was discharged from the hospital.
He began playwriting as an undergraduate and his plays have been produced at the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival, Portland, Oregon’s Pulp Stage and the Rainbow Theatre Project in Washington, DC. In 2018, just three years after starting, he graduated from George Washington University, magna cum laude, with a degree in Theatre and a minor in Creative Writing. His multi-award-winning debut novel, American Airman, a Memoir of a Wounded Veteran is available on Amazon in paperback, audiobook and eBook formats.