Originally from Myrtle Beach, SC, at the age of 21 Johnathan moved to Chicago where he wrote and began performing his critically acclaimed one-man show, Like It Is. The Chicago Reader proclaimed, "If we're ever to return to a day when theatre matters, we'll need a few hundred more artists with McClain's vision and courage." On the heels of its critical and commercial success, the show subsequently moved to New York where Johnathan was compared favorably to solo performance visionaries such as Eric Bogosian, John Leguizamo, and Anna Deavere Smith.

乔纳森最初来自南卡罗来纳州默特尔比奇，21 岁时搬到芝加哥，在那里他创作并开始表演他广受好评的独角戏《Like It Is》。《芝加哥读者》（The Chicago Reader）宣称，“如果我们要回到戏剧重要的一天，我们将需要几百位具有麦克莱恩远见和勇气的艺术家。在评论界和商业上取得成功之后，该节目随后搬到了纽约，在那里乔纳森被比作埃里克·博戈西安、约翰·莱吉扎莫和安娜·迪弗尔·史密斯等独奏表演的梦想家。

喬納森最初來自南卡羅來納州默特爾比奇，21 歲時搬到芝加哥，在那裏他創作並開始表演他廣受好評的獨角戲《Like It Is》。《芝加哥讀者》（The Chicago Reader）宣稱，“如果我們要回到戲劇重要的一天，我們將需要幾百位具有麥克萊恩遠見和勇氣的藝術家。在評論界和商業上取得成功之後，該節目隨後搬到了紐約，在那裏喬納森被比作埃裏克·博戈西安、約翰·萊吉扎莫和安娜·迪弗爾·史密斯等獨奏表演的夢想家。