Joseph Malone born Joseph Patrick Sheck, Joe decided on a performing career while doing musicals in high school.  At the age of 20, this goal eventually led him to start his formal dance training at Eugene Loring's "The American School of Dance.”  In the past 25 years, Joe has sung and danced in over 100 television specials, films and nightclub acts.  One of Joe's biggest highlights was when Director/Choreographer Michael Peters took him to Broadway to sing and dance in Michael's directorial debut, Leader Of The Pack.

Deciding to augment his dancing and singing career, Joe started acting in 1985.  Since then he has garnered roles in feature films as well as guest starred on many television show including the ever-popular Seinfeld.  His work, as an actor and as a choreographer, on the Emmy Award winning Tracey Ullman Show and Tracey Takes On... are among his most proud.  Joe has also choreographed "Inauguration Dance" in the film Primary Colors starring John Travolta and Emma Thompson.

He began directing and choreographing shortly thereafter and has worked on such prestigious productions as director/choreographer for Sunday in the Park with George which he restaged for Reprise! at UCLA as well as opening sequence of Tracey Ullman's television series Visible Panty Line.  His most recent television work includes choreographed sequences for the critically acclaimed Joan of Arcadia and Judging Amy.  Last year Joe worked on an animated sequence for the upcoming Disney feature, Tinkerbell and has just returned from New York where he made his Broadway choreographic debut with his contribution to Lennon; a musical based on the life of the prolific artist, John Lennon.

In 2000, Joe was honored with an Emmy nomination for Best Achievement in Choreography for his work on Tracey Takes On..., and again in 2003 with another Best Achievement in Choreography for his work on Boston Public.  Joe was recognized for his choreographic efforts on Alley McBeal with an American Choreography Award, and received another American Choreography Award for his work on Boston Public.  Additionally, Joe has been honored with The Lehman Award, The National Academy of Dance Award-Best Choreography on a Television Series.  Of all his accolades, the most meaningful for him is receiving The Min-on Art Award, The SGI Culture Award and this past May The Soka Art Award for his contribution for the realization of lasting world peace through the development of the arts from his mentor in life, Daisaku Ikeda.

In 1992, along with dancer (and wife of 22 years) Nanci Hammond, he established The Performing Arts Center, a school concentrating on the training of young artists with a dream of a career in the performing arts.  In 1994, again with Nanci and Louise, he established, Mandalone Project; a company devoted to the ongoing development of music and dance related projects geared toward concert theater.

He credits the success he has enjoyed to his practice of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism, the compassionate training of many dedicated teachers, and the support of wonderful friends.  His wife Nanci and sons Patrick and Michael are without a doubt his greatest treasures.