Biography
Joshua Conkel is an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in eastern Kentucky, he was raised as a Navy brat and later settled in Washington State, where he studied theatre at Cornish College of the Arts and began writing plays.
His stage work includes the play MilkMilkLemonade, named Best Off-Off-Broadway Show of 2009 by NY Press, with productions at venues such as Steppenwolf Theatre, Soho Rep and the Old Vic. He has also written shorts including Curmudgeons (2016), directed by Danny DeVito and premiered at Tribeca, and He Watches (2022).
In television, Conkel contributed teleplays to three episodes of A Series of Unfortunate Events (2018–2019), served as writer and executive story editor on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020), and wrote an episode of Dead Boy Detectives (2024). His original screenplay Cold Spell was optioned by Miramax in 2018.
