With his degree in Marketing Jon Schwartz decided there’s no business like show business, and has been performing professionally for the past 35 years!
He has toured prisons with a production of Samuel Becket’s Waiting For Godot and has performed mime at Carnegie Hall. Jon also worked with Tennessee Williams in the world premiere production of Tiger Tail and worked on ships as cruise director and entertainer.
For the past 18 years Jon and his wife Ginny King have been producing shows for the event business in Atlanta. Jon has written, produced and directed fourteen interactive mysteries that have been produced at over 350 corporate events.
In February of 2004 Jon, as Vinny Verelli, won the NSA Comedy Idol Competition in St. Louis and recently won the Toastmaster’s State of Georgia humor and table topics competition. In December 2007, Vinny was the closing keynote speaker at the 2007 CAPS (Canadian Association of Professional Speakers) convention in Halifax. Jon is currently the president of NSA Georgia.