Josh MacDonald

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 been produced by theatre companies around North America. Halo, Whereverville and The Mystery Play have all been published by Talonbooks, and are curriculum titles in high schools and universities in Canada. Josh is the winner of the Sharon Enkin Prize for TYA Writing from the Playwrights Guild of Canada for his adaptation of Robert Cormier's #iamthecheese. 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 series work for the National Film Board, the Smithsonian Channel, Reelz, CBC TV & Radio, Blue Ant, Vision, AMI, Eastlink and Teletoon. Josh is the winner of a "Best Actor" award from FIN--The Atlantic Film Festival for his short film Degrees. More recently, he has appeared in theatrical productions of Lo (Or Dear Mr. Wells) and Shakespeare in Love, had a featured role in CBC TV's Diggstown, and been a one-night stand to Chelsea Peretti (Brooklyn 99) in the feature film Spinster.