John Jacobsen is a director and host of The Artist Toolbox. He served as the Vice President of the ACT Theatre, one of the country’s leading regional theatres, where he remains a Trustee, and President and co-founder of TheFilmSchool, one of America’s leading film schools. He has been involved in the film, theatre and television industry for over 30 years and teaches acting, directing and writing all around the world. He directed the award-winning shorts ARTHUR and SPINNING, and the feature film, Around the Fire (starring Tara Reid and Devon Sawa), produced in part by The Shooting Gallery (Sling Blade), which premiered at The Seattle International Film Festival and was nominated for The Best Independent Filmmaker’s Award, and which won the Giffoni Film Festival in Italy. John has also produced several features, including the Columbia/Tri-Star picture Nervous Ticks starring Bill Pullman and Peter Boyle. His other production credits include the HBO movie of the week, Danger of Love, John Frankenheimer's 52 Pick Up with Roy Scheider and Ann Margaret, and The Assassin with Charles Bronson. Several short films he produced won awards including the Aspen Film Festival and the gold, silver, and bronze awards at the Houston international Film Festival and featured talent such as Sandra Bullock and Sally Kirkland. He has directed over twenty stage productions regionally and in New York, working with such talents as Eli Wallach, Scott Bakula, Marcia Gay Harden, Yeardley Smith, and Jill Eikenberry. He has directed commercials, documentaries and corporate videos, and worked as an assistant on Broadway to the legendary director, Hal Prince. He directed and produced the Tribute to Katherine Dunham on CBS's Emmy Award-winning Kennedy Center Honors and worked with the Academy Award-winning documentary maker, Charles Guggenheim. He managed the Motion Picture and Television Department at UCLA Extension, and he still teaches writing, directing and acting at numerous colleges. He was a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute (AFI) and has sold several screenplays, including the winner of the 2009 Independent Family Films, Dark Horse, which represents just one of the recent produced scripts John has written in the past several years.

Greg Moga is Executive Producer of the Artist Toolbox. Greg's career is best described as multi-faceted. With a background in journalism and past experience as editor of a magazine in Chicago, his entrepreneurial energy has led Greg to simultaneously juggle such varied careers as law in Minneapolis, fertility in Europe and the US, farming in the Midwest, hospital IT - revenue cycle in Spokane, and patient advocacy with employees in 11 states, not to mention serving on three non-profit environmental boards. Greg is leading a full slate of projects at Moga Jacobsen Productions. Stay tuned!