During the 2008/09 seaosn, Jon directed the World Premieres of Holidazed and Tracy Letts' adapation of Three Sisters, as well as Speech & Debate. He has also directed here The New House,Assassins, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seagull, The History Boys,  Mr. Marmalade, Theatre District, The Retreat From Moscow, Orson's Shadow, House and Garden, Death of a Salesman, Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge, The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia?, The Laramie Project, Dinner with Friends, Master Class, Present Laughter, A Question of Mercy, Indiscretions, Keely and Du (1995 Drammy Award: Best Director), Love! Valour! Compassion!, Breaking the Code, Chaps!, The Sea, The Normal Heart, The Destiny of Me, Buried Child, The Artificial Jungle, Three Tall Women (USIA International Tour) and Abundance. Other Portland directing credits include Floyd Collins for Stumptown Musical Theatre; Guys and Dolls for The Musical Theatre Company (1996 Drammy Award: Best Director of a Musical); Romeo and Juliet, A Winter's Tale, Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It for Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company; Waiting for Vern, Jeffrey, Bent and The Sum of Us for triangle! Productions; Broadway Bound and Hay Fever for Portland Repertory Theater; The Importance of Being Earnest and Chekhov in Yalta for New Rose Theatre; The Mystery of Irma Vep for Storefront Theatre; and Down the Road for the Oregon One-Act Festival. Jon has also directed numerous productions in Seattle, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles, including Sweeney Todd, Mourning Becomes Electra, Wonderful Town, Inventing Van Gogh, Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Othello; The Taming of the Shrew; A Doll's House; Cloud 9; The Outsiders; The Swan; Terra Nova; Reckless; Streamers; Private Lives; Arms and The Man; 84 Charing Cross Road, and Frankenstein. Jon was the dramaturg for Portland Repertory Theater, has served as a guest director and professor at a number of West Coast and Midwest universities, and has worked as an acting coach in Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland. This season Jon also made his operatic directing debut at Milwaukee's Skylight Opera Theatre with Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio. He has also served as the London and New York theater and classical music correspondent for a variety of Northwest newspapers and magazines.

Jon will also be teaching an acting class at Artists Rep this fall.