---
name: "Joshua Conkel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joshua-conkel"
fi1m_id: "joshua-conkel"
imdb_id: "nm3321780"
tmdb_id: 1602086
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "21 December 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-13T21:54:04.380225+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Joshua Conkel

## Identity

Joshua Conkel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joshua-conkel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joshua-conkel
- **IMDb ID:** nm3321780
- **TMDB ID:** 1602086
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3321780/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1602086

Writer. Born 21 December 1980 in Eastern Kentucky.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 21 December 1980, Eastern Kentucky
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3321780/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1602086

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*A Series of Unfortunate Events*](https://film.one/tv/a-series-of-unfortunate-events.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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.

*Sources: imdb.com, stageagent.com, joshuaconkel.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Series of Unfortunate Events* (2017), Fi1m 74, Teleplay — [page](https://film.one/tv/a-series-of-unfortunate-events.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Spoons* (2024), Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Dead Boy Detectives* (2024), series, Producer, Writer
- *He Watches* (2022), Director, Screenplay
- *Chilling Adventures of Sabrina* (2018), series, Writer, Story Editor
- *A Series of Unfortunate Events* (2017), series, Teleplay — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/a-series-of-unfortunate-events.md)
- *Curmudgeons* (2016), Writer, Co-Producer

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