About

Jonathan Popalis is an award winning writer, director and producer with over two decades of experience in the television, commercial, and independent filmmaking worlds. He is the co-founder of Platonic Friends Productions, and is the Co-Creator, Head Writer, Executive Producer and Showrunner of THE DESSERT, a Canadian sketch show presented by Bruce McCulloch from THE KIDS IN THE HALL, currently streaming on Crave, Canada’s largest streaming service.

Jonathan is a member of MENSA and is an independent filmmaker whose shorts have screened at festivals across the globe including the Prague Independent Film Festival, the Portland Comedy Film Festival, the Toronto Independent Film Festival, the Austin Comedy Film Festival, the St Albans Film Festival, and many more. Jonathan was a Just For Laughs Montreal 2023 artist, a 2020 Harold Greenberg Fund screenwriting grant recipient and has also served as a supervising producer at the Bell Media Creative Agency for over 15 years, where he’s written, directed and produced some of the company’s biggest spots.