Jon Breakfield is a member of the Writers Guild of America, west and the Society of Authors (Great Britain).

A graduate of the UCLA Film School in Los Angeles, Breakfield has been working with aspiring and professional writers for the past twenty years based on his experience:

Afterschool Specials for ABC/Showtime

Feature Films optioned for Wildfire Productions, John  Rubin Productions, Chuck Grieve Productions (L.A.), Freewheelin' Films (Aspen). Take Five Productions (Paris); option sold at the Cannes Film Festival

KWIZ Radio, Santa Ana, California

KISS-FM, Los Angeles

WEMP, Milwaukee

WLHA, Madison

UPI, Associate Press, Zodiac (San Francisco)

Orlando Sentinel

As an actor Jon Breakfield has worked in films and TV with Jack Lemmon, David Niven, Bill Cosby, Harvey Korman, Peter Lawford, Chad Everett, Mike Connors, Bill Bixby, Jerry Stiller, Susan Saint James, Raymond Burr, Gene Barry and Robert Stack.

Breakfield managed the LA Film Actors Lab, formerly Hollywood's top acting school, and was a 'reader' for Thompson-Paul Productions, the production company that produced the Academy Award winning motion picture The Paper Chase, the TV series The Paper Chase, and the motion picture The Mark of Zorro.

Having studied acting with Lee Strasberg and Justin Smith in Hollywood, the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and screenwriting with Dr. Linda Seger at the Writers' Guild in Hollywood, Jon Breakfield understands the nuances of what it takes to write a commercial screenplay from the side of the actor, writer and producer.