Joan is an actress and producer.  

Coming up next:

Joan will act in and is Associate Producer of Beth Lauren's feature film Three Days In Dublin which will begin shooting in Ireland later this year.

Recently:  

Joan co-produced, along with Shadow Productions, Kathy Kafer's The Chosen Wife at Altered Stages in June. The Chosen Wife was one of two finalists for the prestigious 2005 Stanley Drama Award.

Joan played Mary in Tony Sportiello's comedy National PastTime at Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame in May.
 

Film/TV work includes:  a supporting role in the short Soaked (O! Seven Films, Stephanie Daniels, dir), as the anxious executive director of a ballet company, which was screened in March by CineWomen and will be screened at Trenton Film Festival as part of the Narrative Shorts program; a co-leading role in the feature Sada's Soul (Wolve Prods, Will Kasai, dir), as the alter ego of the lead who takes her through self discovery; a supporting role in Beth Lauren's comedic short Getting Ned, as the concerned best friend of the lead. Joan was also featured in the half hour TV pilot "Head's Up" as the wife of a man suffering from depression.

Theater credits include:  the Off-Off Broadway original comedies The Lunch, as Alison, the friend always vying for attention, and R.S.V.P., as Stacey, the wedding coordinator quickly losing control.  Joan spent many Sundays playing Lavenia in the improvisational Subway Brunch performed on the A-Train.  Joan has been seen in numerous staged readings.

Joan studied at New Actors Workshop with Mike Nichols, George Morrison and Paul Sills, and in Russia with the Voronezh State Theater.

Joan is Associate Producer of Algonquin Productions, whose sole mission is to move plays on to a professional level, be that Broadway, Off Broadway, Regional Theater, Film or Television.  She co-founded Liquid Productions in 2002 to produce original work.

Through Liquid Productions she has co-produced and acted in the original comedies The Lunch and R.S.V.P.; co-produced It's A Girl Thing-A Cabaret; co-produced an Annual Academy Awards networking event three years in a row; co-produced a staged reading of I Witness, an original play by David Grand starring Michele Lee and Tony Lo Bianco. 

Joan also helped produce September Space’s annual Iron Skillet Cook-Off 2004, featuring the French Cookin Blues Band; zesty DJs Elvis Duran and Goumba Johnny as Masters of Ceremony, and savory celebrities Steve Shirripa (aka Bobby Bacala) from the Sopranos; The Central Park Guitar Man, David Ippolito; and crooner-cop, Daniel Rodriguez.