​Hello!

 

We’re Joel and Lisa Canfield - and we’ve been married as long as The Simpsons has been on the air. 

 

We began our professional lives together running a creative agency in Southern California, where we produced radio and television promos for TV shows including 24, American Idol, Friends and…well, The Simpsons! ...along with a lot of shows you’ve probably never heard of. Married by America, anyone?

 

From there, we moved to New Zealand, where we produced TV shows, promos and corporate videos, all while starting a new youth baseball club so our kids would have a place to play.

 

Now, we're in the Los Angeles area, ghostwriting books (we frequently ghostwrite for Forbes Books) and writing screenplays (we've had six TV movies produced and have two more in development).  

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In our spare time, we walk our beautiful dog Ivy and play lots of Nintendo. Joel also keeps busy with his second job as U.S. Ambassador to Latvia. 

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Some of our notable achievements include:

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• Wrote and produced Kiwiball, a documentary about the New Zealand Little League’s trip to the World Series Asia pacific regionals.

• Started Central City, a youth baseball club in New Zealand that has won several national championships.

• Appeared on School of Success, a NZ reality show where Lisa got a bad edit and Joel had to box a giant man.

• Collaborated on the award-winning Max Bowman mystery novel series, available at fine bookstores everywhere. 

• Wrote six TV movies: Two romcoms and four Christmas movies that are still being shown on various platforms.

• Raised a scientist, a journalist and a landscape designer, along with two mildly insane dogs.