Career in Los Angeles

Josh moved to LA in 2012 and began shadowing editor Julia Wong on the film Plush. He was introduced to the film's accomplished director, Catherine Hardwicke, becoming her full time assistant upon the film's completion. After Catherine helped launch CBS' Reckless, Josh began working for the series' producers, Kim Moses & Ian Sander, at their production company, Sander/Moses Productions. As the company's Digital Media Director/Producer, he spent 3 years traveling the globe working on several pilots and film productions for ABC, FOX and YouTube Red. He next ventured into the studio world joining Matthew Gross' TV development team at EuropaCorp Studios, during season 1 of NBC's TAKEN. In 2017, Josh made the switch back to film working as Director of Digital Creative for the major world-renowned studio Samuel Goldwyn Films led by Peter Goldwyn and Ben Feingold. Working with the creative digital marketing team, he enjoys designing visual materials and creating trailers for the release of their impressive slate of innovative, diverse, and uniquely told films and documentaries.

In his free time Josh works a graphic designer, editor, and videographer/photographer on a wide variety of projects ranging from the smallest independent content creators to the larger companies and studios. These include projects created for 20th Century Fox Animation, Sony Pictures, Urban Movie Channel, JASH, (RED), Tasty Shop Media, Twitch LA and more.

​Josh is also a sketch comedy writer/producer who is currently very active at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater in Hollywood. There he writes on the Maude Team MOON GOON as well as several other stages shows every month and is enrolled in their Advanced Sketch Writing Program. He's also been involved as a writer/producer/content creator at The Pack Theater, Groundlings, iO West and Nerdist Meltdown.
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In his extra free time he is a musician, playing guitar in the band Jacob The Horse,\ and occasionally in the pit bands for local musicals - most recently Team StarKid's "Black Friday" and "The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals".

Background & Education

Born and raised in the NYC area, Josh has aspired to work in entertainment since he was 13 years old, using his dad's camcorder to shoot homemade movies with friends and animating poorly hand drawn cartoons in Windows Paint/Movie Maker. After learning the basics in his film/tv classes at Teaneck High School, he took his passions to Temple University where he received his B.A. in Film & Media Arts in 2012. While in college he wrote, produced and directed many short film, television, and digital projects that were featured on the campus television network, the campus news multimedia channel, and earned multiple awards/nominations from several local film festivals and events, including his senior thesis film, ​Dropped Bars. During his summer semesters he interned at different production companies in both LA and NYC including GRB Entertainment, Radar Pictures and Moviola Digital.