On my way to the studio, unitarded.
Joshua Sitron is a music composer / producer, multi-instrumentalist and sometimes filmmaker and shaman living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY with his wife and daughter. He has written music for Nickelodeon, Disney, PBS, and Showtime, including the mega-hit show, Dora the Explorer for which he served as musical director and penned the theme song. In 2000, seeking to free himself from the creative constraints and corporate agendas of TV music, Josh left ‘Dora’, traveled, and began studying improv and kung fu, while making several short films. 
In early, 2001 he began his own independent kids project, FunkeyMonkeys, which aims to impart more conscious and spiritual values than those dictated by the marketplace. To date, FunkeyMonkeys includes 5 CDs, a live band & Off-Broadway show, and several short videos. In 2002, Josh joined the accalimed improv comedy and spontaneous theater troupe, Centralia, as accompanist and musical director, which led to the 2002 Fringe Festival Musical Generica. The masters of long form improv, the Centralia group weaves 60-minute entirely made up musical theater pieces that transcend comedy.
In 2003, Josh released his first solo original CD, the deeply personal Biblical Digital, he describes as ‘the soundtrack to my spiritual awakening’. CDBaby.com made it a featured editor’s pick and wrote, “From epic, dramatic, thunderous and sweeping like a film score to intimate, visceral, well-directed plaintive lines, this electronic album encompasses a full spectrum of light and dark, of mind and emotion, simply rotating around creativity and musical voice rather than any particular genre indications.” -CD Baby
Recently, Josh has begun recording, producing and playing the music of other artists and bands at his Bushwick studio, ‘The Playground’. Artists include Nikki Blonsky (the Hairspray Movie), Antibalas members: Amayo (Fu Arkest-Ra), Eric Biondo (Beyondo, the Monkees), Stuart Bogie (TV on the Radio, Volney Litmus, Superhuman Happiness), and Luke O’Malley (the Phenomenal Handclap Band) along with the bands, Thought, Hylo-fi, Wild Yaks, Lazer& the Dookers and others, some of whom he performs with at live shows.
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• COMPOSER/PRODUCER OF MUSIC FOR THE FOLLOWING HIGHLIGHTS:
television
Nickelodeon Dora the Explorer 2000-present
Showtime The Best Sh*t on Television Promo Spot 2007-2008
DisneyChannel PB + J. Otter 1998-present
Lifetime State of Mind 2007
PBS In the Mix 1995-present
Nickelodeon Nick Jr. Is Just for Me Identity Spot 1995-present
CourtTV Crime Stories 1998
Noggin 24/Seven 2001
albums
Lazar & The Dookers The Show – Single 2008
Amayo’s Fu Ark-est-Ra Amen Awon – Single 2008
Beyondo Lost in a World of Love – Single 2008
Thought Politics for Kids 2007
FunkeyMonkeys Mustache 2007
FunkeyMonkeys Tastes Like Chicken 2005
Joshua Sitron Biblical Digital 2003
Centralia Generica 2003
Jewish FunkeyMonkeys! 2003
Funkeymonkeys! En Español! 2002
Fairy Dust 2000
The Girl Scouts of America: Sisters Hand in Hand 2001
FunkeyMonkeys! 2001
hylo-fi Mastered Promos 2008
films
Strong Island Boys (feature) 1997 Walk and Balance Productions
Under the Rainbow (documentary feature) 1999 Dir. Ryan Lifchitz
Tropical Charlene (short) 1998 Dir. Kiran Ramchandran
The Older Man (short) 2002 Dir. Joe Schiappa and Kevin Scott
Kung Fluid (short) 2000 Dir. Joshua Sitron
The Watching of the Lord of the Rings (short) 2000 Dir. Joshua Sitron
live shows
FUNKEYMONKEYS 2001-present
CENTRALIA 2001-present
BROADWAY KIDS1994-95
Shining Time Station Live 1995
Arlene Smith of the Chantels 1994
toys
FISHER-PRICE 2007-present
Elmo’s Restaurant
Ba Ba Baby Elmo
Tumbling Tigger
Little Miss Sunshine
Rockin’ Guitar Elmo
Bedtime Abby
Disco Wubbzy
education
Washington University in St. Louis (Psych/Philosophy) 1989-1991
New York Institute of Technology (Videography) 1993
Five towns College (MIDI, Arranging) 1994
Gotham City Improv (improv) 2000-2004
Ron Baker (Reiki) 2001-present
contact
646 / 675-1375. 290 N.7th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211
