Playwright
"I want my work to be like the Voight-Kampff test from Blade Runner, where you’d use my plays to determine someone’s level of engagement with empathy"
Joshua Young was a proud member of The Public Theater's 2018-2019 Emerging Writers Group a member of The Flea Serials Writers Room and a member of the 2020 Project Y Playwrights Group. His plays include Lime-A-Rita Racist (The Public Theater’s 2019 Spotlight Reading Series, a play about whether it's right or wrong to punch someone having a fit in public), Red Room on a Dark Web (Primary Stages ESPA Drills 2019 Reading Series), Appalachian Pachinko! and My Guggenheim Play, a true story about unreported corporate corruption. He’s a founding member of The Playwriting Collective, a playwright driven initiative focused on lifting up folks from lower economic backgrounds.
Josh also writes film, television, graphic novels and is a public speaker and speechwriter.
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Member, 2018-2019 Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater
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2018 & 2019 Cherry Lane Mentor Project Nominee
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His work has been recognized as a finalist or semifinalist for The O’Neill, SPACE on Ryder Farm Working Farm, PlayPenn, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Freshground Pepper, Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program, and the Trustus Playwrights’ Festival.