Biography

Josh MacDonald is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, and actor.

He is the writer of the feature film "The Corridor" (IFC Films; D Films), which won the Next Wave Award for Best Screenplay at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. He is also the writer of the feature film "Faith, Fraud & Minimum Wage" (eOne Entertainment), which is an adaptation of his stage play "Halo".

"Halo" has gone into a 6th printing, and has been produced by theatre companies around North America. "Halo", "Whereverville" and "The Mystery Play" are published by Talonbooks, and are curriculum titles in high schools and universities in Canada. Josh is the winner of a Tom Hendry Prize from the Playwrights Guild of Canada for his adaptation of #IAmTheCheese, Robert Cormier's classic novel for young adults. #IAmTheCheese was also awarded Outstanding Adaptation at the Theatre Nova Scotia Merritt Awards.

Josh is the writer-director of the short horror film "Game", which has won prizes at festivals around the world, been selected as a "Vimeo Staff Pick" and a "Short of the Week," been acquired by Blumhouse's Crypt TV, and viewed over a million times online. A short film Josh co-produced and co-starred in, "Little Grey Bubbles" (by director Charles Wahl), was selected to debut at the SXSW Festival, and has also garnered a million views online.

Josh has written episodic television for the National Film Board, the Smithsonian Channel, Reelz, CBC TV & Radio, Blue Ant and Vision TV. Josh is a screenwriting instructor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), and has been a playwriting instructor at the Fountain School of Performing Arts (Dalhousie University).

Josh works frequently as a dramaturge and a story editor-one recent credit is for Taylor Olson's "Bone Cage", which received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Josh is also an award-winning actor for stage and screen, having most recently performed in: Neptune Theatre's productions of "The Play That Goes Wrong" and "Lo (Or Dear Mr. Wells)"; recurring roles in CBC TV's "Moonshine" and CTV's "Sullivan's Crossing"; as a comically micro-aggressive teacher in Cineplex's feature film "The Queen of My Dreams" and a romantic love interest to Chelsea Peretti (Brooklyn 99) in the feature film "Spinster".
- IMDb mini biography by: Josh MacDonald

Grew up in the Maritimes of Canada

Went to school with Mike Clattenburg