Actor Jonathan von Mering, Wayland High School class of 2013, will appear as Andrej in the upcoming crime drama TV series “Countdown” starring Jensen Ackles (“Supernatural”), which is set to be released on Amazon Prime Video on June 25. Von Mering most recently appeared in the TV series “The Pitt” (2025) and in the Oscar-nominated film “The Holdovers” (2023). In the Boston area he was last seen as the lead in the 2021 Umbrella Arts Theater’s production of “Old Man and the Moon” and as Lazar Wolf in the Broadway tour of “Fiddler on the Roof” (Emerson Colonial Theater, 2020).
A member of the Wayland High School Madrigals, he later won the 2016 ICCA tournament with the a cappella group SoCal VoCals, which garnered them an invitation to perform at the White House. At Wayland High School he appeared in numerous productions, including as Javert in Les Miserables, the last performance staged in the old high school’s Little Theater. He returned to the role of Javert in Weston Drama
Workshop’s 50th anniversary production the following year (a new production of Les Mis is coming to WDW this July). Von Mering credits retired WHS drama teacher Richard Weingartner for inspiring him to pursue a career in the arts: “He was an amazing teacher.”
