Josh Epstein

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Josh Epstein
Josh Epstein at a CFC event in L.A. 2018 (40065286175).jpg
Epstein in 2018
NationalityCanadian
Occupations
  • Actor
  • producer
  • writer

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]

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]

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  5. ↑ "Tears with laughter: Marvin's Room has its poignant moments". Vancouver Sun , May 20, 1994.
  6. ↑ "Ungentlemanly Shakespeare: Director Dean Paul Gibson wrestles with a bunch of badly behaved Bard characters in The Two Gentlemen of Verona". Vancouver Sun , July 12, 2001.
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  10. ↑ "Drowsy? Not this production; Talented cast, stellar choreography make Canadian musical soar". Ottawa Citizen , October 18, 2009.
  11. 1 2 "Spelling Bee scores w-i-n at Vancouver theatre awards". The Globe and Mail. June 20, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: A delightful romp on the French Riviera". The Globe and Mail. November 27, 2009. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
  13. ↑ Isherwood, Charles (August 26, 2012). "'The Matchmaker' at Stratford Shakespeare Festival". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved November 7, 2017.
  14. ↑ "Love's Labour's Lost boasts a heap of talent". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. June 29, 2015. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
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  17. ↑ "Performance festival packs plenty of Chutzpah!". Vancouver Sun , February 24, 2005.
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