Jonathan Leaf is a playwright and journalist. His drama Pushkin was selected as one of the four best plays of 2018 by the Wall Street Journal. He has been nominated in the Innovative Theater (IT) Awards for Best Play of the Year for The Caterers and has received rave reviews for his work in the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, the New Criterion, BroadwayWorld, Show Business Weekly, National Review, and many other publications. Since March 2017, he has premiered five new plays in New York, San Francisco, and Paris.
As a journalist and critic, his writing has been featured in National Review, the Daily Beast, Spectator (USA), Tablet, Mosaic, the New York Post, New York Press, City Journal, Humanities, the Weekly Standard, Modern Age, First Things, The American, The American Conservative, the New York Sun, and many other publications.