our collaborators: Jonathan Reinis Productions

Jonathan Reinis Productions is a frequent and successful collaborator with the Z Space Studio. Under the direction of founder Jonathan Reinis, this commercial production company has worked with the Z Space to produce some of our most well-traveled hits, including Josh Kornbluth's Love & Taxes and Ben Franklin: Unplugged and Marga Gomez's Los Big Names.

In 1982, Jonathan Reinis built Theatre on the Square in downtown San Francisco and operated it for over twenty years. He also refurbished an managed the Alcazar Theatre from 1979 to 1985. Mr. Reinis has produced more than 100 shows in the Bay Area, including Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, Russell Simmons’s Def Poetry Jam, Dame Edna, Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Forever Tango, and John Leguizamo’s Freak. Freak, Forever Tango, Def Poetry Jam, and Dame Edna transferred to Broadway after their successful San Francisco runs. Mr. Reinis has a three-year relationship with the Z Space, during which time he and Z have co-produced the national tours of Josh Kornbluth’s Love & Taxes and Ben Franklin: Unplugged, and Marga Gomez’s Los Big Names.

New York Productions: Dame Edna (Tony award) , Russell Simmons’s Def Poetry Jam (Tony Award, 2003), Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home (Tony nomination, 2003) and It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues (Tony nomination, 1999), Marga Gomez’s Los Big Names, Josh Kornbluth’s Love & Taxes, San Francisco/Bay Area and touring productions include: Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues; Josh Kornbluth’s Ben Franklin: Unplugged; Sam Shepard’s The Late Henry Moss; Dame Edna, Ennio, His Way; Sandra Bernhardt; Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile; John Leguizamo’s premiere of Freak; Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde; and Forever Tango. Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Talley’s Folly. Other San Francisco productions include: Jeffrey; Irving Berlin in Revue; Bubbe Meises; The Piano Lesson (national tour); The Kathy and Mo Show; Shirley Valentine; Love Letters; Mass Appeal; Nehemiah Persoff as Sholem Aleichem; Shay Duffin as Brendan Behan; Biloxi Blues; I’m Not Rappaport; Curse of the Werewolf; and Phantom of the Opera by Ken Hill. He also presented Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project in Northern California, the premier production of Smuin Ballets/SF Dances with Songs, the Kirov Ballet’s original Nutcracker, Ballet Folklorico de Mexico de Amalia Hernandez, Stomp, Riverdance—The Show, Guys and Dolls, Fame: The Musical, and Dirty Blonde. Mr. Reinis is a member of the League of American Theatres and Producers.