Career in Los Angeles
Josh moved to LA in 2012 and spent the following year working for writer & director Catherine Hardwicke. After Hardwicke launched the CBS series Reckless. Josh began producing digital media projects for the series' executive producers, Kim Moses & Ian Sander, at Sander/Moses Productions, where he spent 3 years traveling the globe working on several pilots and film productions for ABC, FOX and CBS. After assisting the executive producer of NBC's TAKEN, Josh joined the team at Samuel Goldwyn Films as their Director of Digital Creative, where he created trailers, posters, and other digital media projects for hundreds of films, include the Oscar winning film Another Round. Since 2022 he has been working for the YouTube sketch comedy-improv collective production company Smosh as their main channel's sketch/scripted editor.
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 Sketch Team MOON GOON, known for their sell out runs of Citywalk: The Musical, A Hallmark Christmas Movie in 4D, . He's also been involved as a writer/producer/content creator at The Pack Theater, Groundlings, iO West and Nerdist Meltdown. 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 Nerdy Prudes Must Die, 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 creating poorly hand drawn cartoons and sprite comics 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.
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