The Long Dirt Road
to Writing…
Josh spent most of his childhood trying to quit sports in a rural North Carolina town with no stop lights. He discovered early on though his artistic bones were way more adept than his athletic ones, when he plucked out The Doris Day Show theme song by ear on the piano at age 6. A few years later he sat his Dad down and had “the talk”- where they agreed he could finally retire his basketball jersey and batting glove and trade them in for jazz shoes and stage makeup. Josh spent the next several decades struggling with self-diagnosed artistic focus-itis, a rare personality condition where one can’t stop bouncing between various art disciplines.
Eventually though, Josh realized the only cure for this ailment was acceptance and that he didn’t have to sacrifice any of his creative babies. He birthed his writing baby circa 2009 when he moved to New York City. It took this first child about 7 years before it was up and walking and people were calling it by its name - “a feature length screenplay”. Since then, however, Josh has gotten quicker at raising his babies and his last two TV pilots he penned the first drafts in just 3 days each! (And they said he needed medication to focus…)
Josh still lives in New York City where he enjoys turning the voices in his head into characters on the page. He also enjoys pizza and Coca-Cola on cheat days and Vegan chocolate chip cookies every other.
RECENT WORKS, AWARDS, & CHATTER
GROUP
Half-Hour TV Comedy Pilot
A burned-out psychiatrist with a tendency to overprescribe is sentenced to one year pro bono. To cope with the influx of new cases, she is forced to start a therapy group.
AWARDS
Finalist - ScreenCraft Fellowship 2019
Quarterfinalist - ScreenCraft Fellowship 2020
Quarterfinalist - ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script 2019
Official Selection, Coverfly - Pitch Week Spring 2020
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“This is a corker of a script. Effervescent and droll dialogue that never lets up. There’s only one person in the world that can play Dr. Jane: Tina Fey.”
“GROUP is a hilarious and well-crafted pilot script featuring an engaging and extremely flawed protagonist, snappy dialogue and a premise with plenty of potential.”
“There’s an irreverence to your humor style that stands out. Thanks to this, audiences feel properly prepared for risqué or potentially problematic humor, and realize that you’re not trying to simply be offensive, but instead having us examine prejudices and preconceived notions of others through the way you present the humor.”
GOOD ENOUGH
Hour TV Dramedy Pilot
The passing of a family matriarch reveals what she was hiding in her closet. Literally.
AWARDS
Finalist - WeScreenplay TV Contest 2019
Quarterfinalist - ScreenCraft Comedy Competition 2020
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“The characters stand out. This is an impressive cast from the youngest to the oldest. Each character seems finely crafted.”
“The dialogue is fantastic. The script captures your attention with just a few lines. But it isn’t just that one scene. The whole script is like this.”
GUT JOB
Half-Hour TV Comedy Pilot
When an eccentric, small-town mogul launches a TV network, two sets of chalk ’n’ cheese twins vie to host the network's first project - their own home renovation show.
AWARDS
Quarterfinalist - WeScreenplay TV Contest 2020
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“You have a real ear for dialogue. The play on words is one of the strengths of the writing and the script; this is evident on the first page.”
“The concept of GUT JOB is clever and imaginative.”