Josh Levine is a queer stage and screen writer with a husband, two daughters, a dog, and an unhealthy obsession with unapologetic funny women.

For his work in film & television, Josh wrote on Hulu’s Emmy-nominated PEN15, for which his episode SLEEPOVER was listed in Entertainment Weekly’s "30 Best TV Episodes of 2020.” His other credits include Steve Levitan’s REBOOT on Hulu, MS. MARVEL for Marvel Studios and Disney+, and Peter Tolan’s series, BELATED, at FX. Josh is currently writing an original comedy feature at Paramount Studios with Alex Hardcastle (SENIOR YEAR) directing, and he also wrote an animated film for Mattel and Curiosity Ink.

Josh previously served as Executive Assistant to actor-writer-producer Natasha Rothwell (HBO's Insecure), Script Coordinator on the critically acclaimed Schitt’s Creek (CBC/Pop) and as Writers' Assistant on the binge-worthy Playing House (USA). He produced the award-winning short film The New 35, co-created the web series Extras on the Strip featured on WhoHaHa, and he was a finalist for the Warner Bros Writers Workshop.

For his work as a playwright, Josh received the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting for his play HOMEMADE, which was also a finalist at the 2019 Austin Film Festival, and his play PERFECT was a Heideman Award Finalist and featured in 2019 Short+Sweet Hollywood Festival. Josh’s plays have received productions around the country in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas, among others, and his play, I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU, is published by Smith & Krause in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2014.

A lover of musicals, Josh is a proud alumni of the BMI Musical Theater Librettist Workshop in NYC. He also had the distinct pleasure to serve as assistant to the late Terrence McNally on the Kander & Ebb musical THE VISIT during its premiere at The Goodman Theater in Chicago.

Josh received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from Rutgers University, where he was an Adjunct Professor of Screenwriting, and his BFA in Playwriting from The Theatre School, DePaul University. Josh is a member of the WGA and The Playwrights Union, a group of LA-based playwrights working in film and tv.

Josh is repped by CAA, Grandview and Cohen Gardner LLP.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION:

  • PEN15 2nd Season nominated for Best Comedy Series by the Emmy Award, Writers Guild of America and the Critic’s Choice Awards

  • KENNEDY CENTER ACTF MARK TWAIN AWARD FOR COMIC PLAYWRITING for Homemade

  • AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL, Finalist for Homemade

  • WARNER BROS WRITERS WORKSHOP, Finalist

  • SEWANEE WRITERS CONFERENCE, Tennessee Williams Scholar

EDUCATION:

  • MFA Dramatic Writing, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (Lee Blessing, head)

  • BFA Playwriting, The Theatre School, DePaul University (Dean Corrin, head)

  • Playwrights Horizons Theatre School (Keith Bunin, teacher)