A Bit About Me
Jonathan Carter is an educator, theatre director, and the founder of JCTE Arts Foundation. He has spent his career at the intersection of the classroom and the stage, building original programming that helps young people grow as students, artists, and leaders.
Jonathan serves as Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Rye Country Day School, where he also teaches. Through Jay Carter Theatre Experience, the company he founded, he has directed theatre programming across schools in the Bronx and Westchester, including a recent production of The Wiz Jr. His work blends rigorous arts education with a deep commitment to access, meeting students where they are and expecting the best from them.
He founded JCTE Arts Foundation to extend that work and open it to more schools and more young people. His approach is grounded in a belief he often returns to: that every child has a story worth telling, a voice worth hearing, and gifts worth developing.
MY WORK
FILM/TV
Daddy’s Little Girls:
Patient Stand-in | Lions Gate-Tyler Perry
We Are Marshall:
Audience Member | McG
Stomp the Yard:
Camera man | Sylvain White
Somebodies:
Ami Aggin | BET/Leonard R. Garner
THEATER
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Brendan Byrnes /Lovinger Theatre
Soweto, Soweto….A Township
is Calling
China
Master Class
Stage Door Players
Endangered Species
Youth Ensemble of Atlanta
A Taste of Y.E.A
Rialto
Wild Party
Onstage Atlanta
Love Does Cost A Thing
7 Stages
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Georgia State University
Urban Holiday Soup
14 th Street Playhouse
War Is on the Streets
Tennessee
COMMERCIALS/PROMO
Stars of Hope
GA Lottery
Checkers
Redi-gone
EDUCATION
Lehman College
Acting for the Camera | Jennifer Mccabe
Advanced Acting for the Camera | Jennifer Mccabe
Acting 1 | Susan Watson-Turner
Let's Get
Social
