Jon Moscone is in his ninth season as Artistic Director of California Shakespeare Theater where his credits include Man and Superman, As You Like It, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Seagull, Twelfth Night, and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. For the company's New Works/New Communities Program. He developed Naomi Iizuka's Hamlet: Blood in the Brain, in collaboration with Intersection for the Arts+Campo Santo, and directed its world premiere production in 2006. Currently he is developing Octavio Solis's new play inspired by John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven, in collaboration with Word for Word Performing Arts Company, towards a main stage production in 2010. His work at Cal Shakes and elsewhere has earned him Bay Area Critics Circle Awards for Best Direction and Production, and his productions of Man and Superman, Nicholas Nickleby, Ghosts, Twelfth Night, and The Seagull were all named among the ten best productions by The San Francisco Chronicle and other area newspapers. His regional credits include Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theater, Dallas Theatre Center (formerly as Associate Artistic Director), Goodspeed Musicals, Portland Stage Company, and Magic Theatre, among others. He is the recipient of a Princess Grace Award, and currently serves on the board of LoveLife Foundation in Oakland, and on the advisory board of Redwood High School in Oakland. He has also served as a grant review panelist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Theater Communications Group, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Upcoming projects include Wilde's An Ideal Husband for Cal Shakes, and Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice for Milwaukee Rep.