Johnathan McClain

Johnathan McClain
Born Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Residence New York City
Los Angeles, California
Occupation Actor, writer
Years active 2001–present
Spouse(s) Laura McClain

Johnathan McClain (born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) is an American stage, television, and film actor, and writer.

Career

At the age of 21 McClain moved to Chicago where he wrote and began performing his critically acclaimed, multiple character, one-man show, "Like It Is." The Chicago Reader was quoted as saying: “If we’re ever to return to a day when theatre matters, we’ll need a few hundred more artists with McClain’s vision and courage.”[1] The show subsequently moved to New York, where his work was compared to that of Eric Bogosian, John Leguizamo, and Anna Deavere Smith.[2]

McClain continued to pursue stage acting for a number of years in New York City and his work there includes appearing Off-Broadway in the original cast of Jonathan Tolins’ "The Last Sunday In June" at The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and later in its transfer to The Century Center for the Performing Arts, as well as at Lincoln Center Theater and with the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. Around the country, he has been seen on stage at the American Conservatory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Florida Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse, and the National Jewish Theatre, as well as at various theatres in Los Angeles.[3]

In 2004 he booked a lead in the Jessica Simpson pilot for ABC,[4] and over the next several years made a number of guest appearances on television. In 2010 he was cast as the lead in TV Land's second original comedy series Retired at 35 which premiered on January 19, 2011, at 10:30 pm following Hot in Cleveland.[5]

He has also worked as a contributor to the Public Radio International series Fair Game (radio).[3]

Personal life

McClain is originally from South Carolina and is active in the world of slam poetry. He and his wife, Laura, divide their time between New York and Los Angeles.[3]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2001Law & Order: Special Victims UnitIsaac YarbroughEpisode: "Countdown"
2001Sponk!Host
2002Far from HeavenStaff Member #1
2003Happy FamilyJimmyEpisode: "Randall's Gift
2004JessicaJoeTV Pilot
2005The Bad Girl's GuidePatricMain Cast
2006CSI: MiamiTodd ManningEpisode: "The Score"
2006CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationAdam ChaseEpisode: "Rashomama"
2007Without a TraceJustin HobartEpisode: "One and Only"
2008ValentineMorgan TreatEpisode: "Daddy's Home"
200924Derek WattsMultiple Episodes
2009MediumTed - Executive in MeetingEpisode "How To Make A Killing In Big Business Parts 1&2"
2010ScoundrelsHugh BarnesEpisode: "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire"
2010Love and Other Unstable States of MatterOwen
2011–12Retired at 35David RobbinsLead
2012The GladesZach FergusonEpisode: "Longworth's Anatomy"
2014Crash & BernsteinTrent BixbyEpisode: "Flushed In Space"
2014Mad MenAlan SilverMultiple Episodes
2016Lab Rats: Elite ForceTonyEpisode: "Need for Speed"
2016BizaardvarkLiamMultiple Episodes

Audiobook work

In 2012, New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child's audiobook recording of The Third Gate was released for which Johnathan McClain was the narrator.[6] AudioFile magazine reviewed it positively saying, "McClain enhances the narrative passages about the history of Egyptian royalty with deft pacing."[7] Later that year, McClain continued his audiobook narrating with Christopher Krovatin's YA novel, Mountain of Bones: Gravediggers, Book 1,[8] as well as three books from the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child: Die Trying (novel), Tripwire (novel), and Running Blind.[9]

Audiobooks
Year Project Author
2012 The Third Gate Lincoln Child
2012 Mountain of Bones: Gravediggers, Book 1 Christopher Krovatin
2012 Die Trying Lee Child
2012 Tripwire Lee Child
2012 Running Blind Lee Child
2013 These Broken Stars Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
2015 The Forgotten Room Lincoln Child
2015 Illuminae Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman
2016 The Last Days of Night Graham Moore
2017 Infini Krista & Becca Ritchie

References

  1. ↑ "All Too Human". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2011-01-14.
  3. 1 2 3 "- Johnathan McClain - TV Land". Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  4. ↑ http://www.actorslife.com/article.php?id=178
  5. ↑ "TV Land - Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr - TV sitcoms, Dramas & More - TV Land". Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "The Third Gate: A Novel". Audible.com. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "THE THIRD GATE". Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  8. ↑ "Mountain of Bones: Gravediggers, Book 1". Audible.com. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  9. ↑ "Download Audiobooks with Audible.com". Retrieved 9 April 2015.
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