June Barfield is a Los Angeles-based writer who began her career as an actor in New York. Her acting credits include The Dybuk at LaMama, The Trojan Women (Andromache) and Under Milkwood at the George St. Playhouse in New Jersey; and Two for the Seesaw and Othello (Desdemona) in New Jersey summer stock. She starred as Malke opposite Maurice Schwartz in a Los Angeles production of the Jewish classic Yoshe Kalb by I.J. Singer (English version). She also appeared on television in Search for Tomorrow and in the film Why Must I Die.

Her writing credits include: A Woman of My Age (adaptation of novel to screenplay), and Too Close to Home (a one-hour segment for the television series Family). She wrote the English adaptation (Together Again) of the telenovela El Derecho de Nacer for Televisa, S.A., and she was an associate writer for General Hospital and One Life to Live. June holds degrees in Theatre from Los Angeles City College and from Rutgers University. She studied Advanced Scene Study with Uta Hagen, Modern Dance with Martha Graham, and she was on scholarship under John Houseman at the Stratford, Connecticut American Shakespeare Festival and Academy where she studied with Morris Carnovsky and Phoebe Brand, original members of The Group Theatre.