Jon and Braddon Mendelson David and Lisa at Granada Hills High School.

David (Jon) and Lisa (Susan Vovsi) taking a curtain call

Lisa and David, thirty-plus years later

Jon as Pantalone and James Egan as Doctor Lombardi in Goldoni's A Servant of Two Masters at Granada Hills High School. Jon was nominated for the Flip Reede Award as Best Actor in the Los Angeles City School District for the production, which led to his own succesful adaptation of the play twenty years later.

As Judge Gaffney in Harvey

Jon with his high school drama teacher, Maxine Lewis