Joshua W. Brewer
Writer and Director for the Stage and Screen
About Joshua W. Brewer
Joshua Brewer is a theatre and film artist originally from Clarksville, Ohio. He holds a BFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in Directing from the University of Memphis. He was the Founding Artistic Director of The Rum & Coke Collective and currently serves as a Co-Artistic Director of Memphis Silhouettes. Directing credits include Inherit the Wind, Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Living, Breathing Things at the University of Memphis, Medea with Poetry Is, Inherit the Wind at Fordham University, A Canterbury Journey with Zoot Theatre Company, and as one of the directing team members for The Memphis Murder Project. His plays include Apples and Roofies, Endlings, R.S.V.P., Remains, Living, Breathing Things, and most recently Dirt, a ten minute play that opened the Midwest Dramatist Conference. He's a proud associate member of SDC and a member of the Dramatist Guild.
He also served as the assistant director for The Oresteia Project in Pittsburgh, which was listed as one of the Top Ten Theatrical Productions of the Decade by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. He was a co-writer on the film Body, which won Honorable Mention at the Metropolitan Film Festival of NYC as well as the Gold Award in Narrative Film at the California Film Awards and a Staff Writer for Rural, an independent drama series from Film Collective Productions. His most recent production is Something Wicked, a horror-themed radio drama set for release in summer of 2021.
He enjoys making lists and laughing manically in the dark.