Cameron Crain hails from the Palouse Country in eastern Washington and northern Idaho. Cameron graduated from Washington State University in 1993 with emphases in Literature, Philosophy and Theatre, and followed his heart to Nevada, where he has written, stage managed, produced, directed and acted in dozens of productions from Lovelock to Las Vegas. Cameron has worked as Managing Artistic Director of NSC since 1998. That year he directed Elegy for a Lady, by Arthur Miller, as a performance complement to the Kienholz Horengracht exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art. In 2000, he directed NSC's Macbeth at Piper's Opera House in Virginia City. In summer 2003, Cameron directed Amigas, presented in the Prim Theater of the new Nevada Museum of Art. Cameron has performed roles in the Silver State from Hamlet to Scrooge, but he is best known for his portrait of Harold Hill in NSC's production of Meredith Wilson's The Music Man at Piper's Opera House in 2001. Cameron co-created, directed and performed in NSC's educational program Shakespeare In School, which has played for more than 200 performances to over 60,000 students throughout Nevada in the last three years. Cameron played Kent, Oswald and Regan in NSC's King Lear in 2003 and has performed more than 250 times in the role of Everyman in A Single Woman. He is recipient of two Sierra Arts Foundation Fellowships as well as a 2004 Fellowship from the Nevada Arts Council. In addition to his work with NSC, Cameron teaches theatre at Sage Ridge School in Reno.