Josh Epstein is a Canadian actor, producer and writer. He produced, co-wrote and acted in Public Schooled starring Judy Greer, Russell Peters, Grace Park and Daniel Doheny which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017.[1] He received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016, as cowriter with Kyle Rideout of the film Eadweard;[2] he also had a supporting role in the film as Thomas Edison.[3]
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As a stage actor in Canada, his roles have included Michael Darling in a 1988 production of Peter Pan,[4] Charlie in Marvin's Room,[5] Speed in Two Gentlemen of Verona,[6] Joey in Pal Joey,[7] LeFou in Beauty and the Beast,[8] Leo Bloom in The Producers,[9] one of the gangster pastry chefs in The Drowsy Chaperone,[10] Barfee in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,[11] Freddy Benson in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,[12] Barnaby in The Matchmaker[13], Berowne in Love's Labour's Lost,[14] and Lensky in Onegin.[15] He won Jessie Theatre Richardson Awards for his acting as Barfee[11] and Lensky.[16]
He has also appeared in guest roles on the television series The X-Files, Breaker High, So Weird and Package Deal, and as a chorus dancer in the 2007 film Hairspray.
He has also written two one-man plays, Walking Away and Wow, I Didn't Know She Was Jewish.[17]