josh barkey

I'm a Nicholl finalisting, twice-Page-winning, Sundance and Tribeca selected writer of screenplays, novels, and the (extremely occasional) post on this website.  After growing up barefoot and wild on a mission center in the Amazon basin of Peru - catching and eating piranhas before they could catch and eat me -  I paid for an English/Art degree by hand-planting half a MILLION(ish) baby trees in Canadian dirt. Now I live in a shed in North Carolina, where  I write, paint, and even dabble in music-making.  So far in my life I've made or helped to make: A feature-length comedy film, PINK , which is available on Amazon Prim e and other streaming platforms. 7 short films, like  TWO FOR TEA  and the 2020 Tribeca Official Selection, ABDUCTED ; Screenplays  like MARLENE THE DIVINE, which (among other things) won the Page for comedy, was shortlisted for the Academy's Nicholl Fellowship, and was selected for a Sundance thingy; BOOKS  - inclu...