Joan Sittenfield is a talent manager, producer and writer who heads her own management company, Joan Sittenfield Management. She began her career in the entertainment industry as an actress and dancer; upon receiving her master's degree in theatre from USC, she spent six years as a guest artist-in-residence, teaching acting and movement at Michigan State University, California State University-Sacramento, USC, Cornell University, and ASU. During this time she also worked as a highly sought-after private acting coach, as well as a theatre director and choreographer.

When she decided to make Los Angeles her permanent home, she became a successful independent casting director. She worked on such feature films as Once Upon A Time In America, Oh God II, Bad Medicine, and Private Benjamin, and cast the award-winning television program Taxi, as well as The Jeffersons, Glitter, and numerous pilots and Movies of the Week. In 1985 she moved to Universal Television where, as Senior Vice President of Talent and Casting, she was responsible for the talent packaging and casting of such successful programs as Law & Order, Northern Exposure, A Year In The Life, Quantum Leap, Major Dad, and Coach, to name but a few of the over 20 series and 100 pilots with which she was involved. While at Universal, she was also responsible for giving some of today's biggest stars their first breaks, among them Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes, Tim Sizemore, Ving Rhames, Julianna Marguiles, and Eriq La Salle.

In 1993 she, along with partner Jen Munn, formed J & J Productions, which put over 18 projects into active development for both television and feature movies. Together they produced On the Edge of Innocence through Paramount Television for NBC, which aired in April 1997, and Gold Rush!, one of the Wonderful World of Disney movies for ABC which aired in March 1998.

Through her own production company Joan developed original movie of the week scripts with a variety of top production entities, including Grossbart/Barnette Productions, Orly Adelson Productions, and Hearst Entertainment. These projects included Death Storm, an action-adventure story, Another Life, Another Death, a Vertigo-esque suspension story, an original script for a thriller entitled False Sight, and the film version of her novel To Dance on the Dark Side.

From 1998 - 2000 Joan formed an association with Carla Singer Productions to develop, among others, a new version of the Anne Frank story, a remake of the Edna Ferber book Ice Palace, a project for Jessica Lange entitled The Farm She Was, a mini-series based on Jules Verne's Golden Volcano, and an HBO project entitled The Firecracker Boys, based on a book which dealt with Edward Teller's doomed project to bring peace-time uses for nuclear energy to the Alaskan wilderness.

Joan is the co-author of How Many Men Does It Take To Screw In A Lightbulb? ... None (The Modern Woman's Guide to Home Repairs), a comedy "how-to" book published by Putnam Books in September 1997. She also wrote the novel To Dance on the Dark Side.

In 1998, Joan added a management division to her production company. Her actors work in television, film, and theatre, and all come from strong Broadway or conservatory-based acting programs. Her current roster of actors includes Tom Cavanagh, much beloved star of the large and small screens; Tony-nominated Broadway actors Charlotte D'Amboise and Stephen Bogardus; TV veterans DeLane Matthews, Matt Roth and Bruce Nozick; and hot up-and-comers Leslie Odom, Jr., Jacques Smith, Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Rebecca Brooksher, and Mozhan Marno.