Jonathan Houlston

Jonathan Houlston is a Welsh writer and actor from Swansea. Jonathan’s debut play Physical Education explores expectations and preconceptions of masculinity through the lens of working-class Welsh life. It premiered at the Swansea Grand this summer to critical acclaim attracting national interest courtesy of five-star reviews in The Guardian and The Stage. Jonathan trained as an actor at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

‘strikingly astute and utterly gripping… This is teen masculinity in its entirety: loud but uncertain, fragile yet primed to fight.’ The Guardian 5 stars 

‘ an unsettling and nuanced examination of what it is to be a young man in a world where almost all of your behaviours are deemed unacceptable – told from the young adult, male perspective’ The Stage 5 stars