Jonathan Padget was born in 1970 in Greenwood, S.C., where he grew up studying piano and French horn and performing in community theater productions. He attended Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., where he was an English major and was active in the theater and music departments; he received his BA in 1993.

He spent several years in Charlotte, N.C., working in the marketing department
at Opera Carolina and establishing himself as a freelance journalist, before relocating to Washington, D.C., in 1996 for a one-year residency with the Cathedral Volunteer Service Community at Washington National Cathedral.

He worked in the nonprofit sector before joining the editorial staff of Metro Weekly magazine in 2001. Since 2003, he has worked in the Style section at
The Washington Post, where he is currently a copy editor.

His 10-minute play “He Says, I Think, I Say” was produced in 1997 by City Theater Company in Wilmington, Del., and in 1999 by Source Theatre Company in Washington. He has performed in the Washington area with the Reston Community Players and the Elden Street Players. He is also a choral musician whose experience includes a season with the Oratorio Singers of Charlotte and a season with the Cathedral Choral Society in Washington.

He created the book, music and lyrics for “The Blue Lagoon: A Musical,” which premiered in the 2007 Capital Fringe Festival.

A member of the Newspaper Guild and the Dramatists Guild, he is married to the Rev. Scott Wells.