Joan Hyler
President, Hyler Management
Courage Award

Joan Hyler created and operates Hyler Management, a boutique talent management and production company, after two illustrious decades as a talent agent and Senior Vice President of the William Morris Agency and International Creative Management. As an agent she represented icons Andy Warhol, Madonna, Meryl Streep, Bob Dylan and Peter O' Toole. She was involved with many groundbreaking talents, both developing and redefining such careers as Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Candice Bergen (Murphy Brown), Ricki Lake (The Ricki Lake Show) and Oscar nominee Diane Lane with whom Hyler has been involved since her first feature film A Little Romance in l979.

As a manager and producer Joan Hyler continues to represent Gold Standard actors many of whom have been nominated or won Oscars, Tony Awards, Golden Globes and Emmys such as: Alfred Molina, Amber Tamblyn, Rutger Hauer and Diane Lane.

As a producer Joan Hyler co- produced the CBS TV series Ladies Man with client Alfred Molina, the Miramax feature documentary Get Bruce, which starred writer/performer client Bruce Vilanch, and the feature film Precious Find starring client Rutger Hauer. She also produced the off Broadway one man show Almost Famous.

Joan Hyler has created several non-profit organizations notably the Morning Star Commission, founded by Hadassah the National Foundation of Jewish Culture's Entertainment Council, and has run the Outreach Program for Women in Film Foundation, where she was a past President.

Joan Hyler has been teaching for several years at USC where she has created a course in representation for their
Graduate Program and has also been a Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University, UCLA, and many other national and international institutions.