Original musical · in development
Stitches
A new musical being made from the inside out: book, lyrics, music, workshops, wrong turns and all.
Follow the journeyTeacherDirectorWriterMaker
I follow ideas until they become something.
Twenty years in creative education taught me that people learn by doing. This is where I make sense of theatre, AI, creativity, education—and the strange work of becoming who you mean to be.
What could this become?
Learn by doing.
01 / THE RANDOM WALKA personal domain, not a polished persona
The wandering is part of the work.
I’m interested in the messy middle: the rehearsal before the performance, the questions before the answer, and the moment a piece of technology becomes useful to a real human.
TheatreEducationAICreativityHuman connection
On the workbench
Things I’m making, testing and refusing to leave as ideas.
Philosophical musical · in revision
The Crito
An ancient argument pushed onto a stage—where ideas have bodies, choices have consequences and philosophy has to sing.
In the roomCreative education · building
Drama Toolkit
Practical activities and digital tools that help teachers get from a plan to a room full of purposeful play.
In the roomEducation & AI · experimenting
Future classroom
A practical exploration of AI as co-pilot: amplifying human judgement, feedback and creative confidence.
Read the thinkingThe through-line
Four ideas I keep returning to.
The subjects change. The questions underneath them are remarkably stubborn.
- 01
Make the thing
Thinking matters. Rehearsing, testing, publishing and revising are how the thinking becomes real.
- 02
Teach for agency
The best learning gives people enough structure to begin—and enough freedom to surprise themselves.
- 03
Use the machine. Keep the human.
AI is most interesting when it extends judgement, imagination and access rather than pretending to replace them.
- 04
Pay attention
Listening, identity, courage and the quiet mechanics of human connection sit underneath almost everything.
Field notes
Writing my way towards the answer.
Dispatches from the random walk—part journal, part working theory, always unfinished.
01
07 NOV 2024
Adventures of a Scatterbrain No. 3
Envisioning a new era for education and AI integration
02
06 NOV 2024
Adventures of a Scatterbrain No. 2
Building a digital hub for AI, education and creativity
03
05 NOV 2024
Adventures of a Scatterbrain
Finding direction at the intersection of AI, education and creativity
Watch & listen
Ideas spoken aloud.
Theatre, communication, self-knowledge and the things we discover when we stop rushing to fill the silence.
Nobody else will pave this path for me.
From Adventures of a Scatterbrain
About
A generalist, on purpose.
Jonathon is a creative educator, director and writer with twenty years in education, a BA (Hons) in Performance and an MBA.
His work moves between classroom, rehearsal room and the emerging possibilities of AI. He is most interested in what happens when curiosity is given structure—and when structure leaves enough room for surprise.
If you came here looking for a neat niche, you may be disappointed. The point is the overlap.
Currently
- Writing and revising original musicals
- Building reusable tools for drama education
- Exploring human-centred uses of AI
- Making videos about communication, courage and the creative life
Continue the conversation
If something here sparks a thought, follow it.
Read the notebook, watch the work, or say hello. The best ideas usually begin as conversations.