1. Josh Fox is an American film director, playwright and environmental activist, best known for his Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning 2010 documentary, Gasland.
37 Facts About Josh Fox
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Josh Fox is the founder and artistic director of a film and theater company in New York City, International WOW, and has contributed as a journalist to Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, NowThis, AJ+ and Huffington Post.
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Josh Fox is Sephardic Jewish on his father's side and Calabrese Italian on his mother's side.
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Josh Fox's father was a displaced person, a Jewish refugee and an infant survivor of the holocaust, arriving in New York City when he was 8 years old.
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Josh Fox went to PS 6 in New York City, Wagner Junior High School and Columbia Preparatory School for High School.
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Josh Fox attended Oberlin College for two years and then transferred to Columbia University, majoring in theater, and graduated in 1995.
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Josh Fox's band, The 3rd Degree, which he co-founded at age 14 with Noah Shachtman was a staple of the NYC Ska scene in the late 1980s, playing often at CBGB's and other downtown NYC venues until their breakup in 1991.
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Josh Fox founded the film and theatre company International WOW Company in Chiang Mai, Thailand with a group of performers from New York City and Asia.
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Josh Fox has written and directed over 30 plays with his ensemble.
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Josh Fox starred as David Conde in Yoji Sakate's Emperor and Kiss performed by the Rinko Gun company, along with Kameron Steele, marking the first time that the company worked with a western performers.
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Josh Fox created Heimwehen, Death of Nations Part V with Frank Raddatz, the former dramaturg of Heiner Muller, for the Forum Freies Theatre in Dusseldorf.
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Josh Fox was a collaborator of Filipino playwright, actor and screenwriter Rody Vera in the early 2000s.
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Josh Fox later produced an HBO sequel Gasland Part II, which aired July 2013 and was released on DVD in January 2014.
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In 2016, Josh Fox directed How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change, a personal take on climate change, the film features figures on climate change such as Bill McKibben, Michael Mann, Van Jones, the Pacific Climate Warriors, and Elizabeth Kolbert.
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Josh Fox was awarded his third Environmental Media Association award for Best Documentary for his film How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016, toured the world theatrically and was released on HBO in June 2016.
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In 2018, Josh Fox created The Truth Has Changed, a solo performance, book and film about misinformation, propaganda and psycho-graphic targeting aimed at manipulating our current media and political ecosystem.
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In January 2020 The Public Theater abruptly ended Josh Fox's run on The Truth Has Changed following a dispute with the theater.
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Josh Fox alleged that festival director Mark Russell was verbally abusive to him before shows.
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Josh Fox was asked to meet with Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and associate artistic director Shanta Thake months later in hopes of finding a reconciliation wherein Ms Thake remarked "mistakes were made" by the Public Theatre staff.
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In 2024 Josh Fox premiered the project at La Mama Experimental Theater Club as a performance and film that you watch at the same time.
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Josh Fox is known for his opposition of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
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Josh Fox has campaigned for a ban on fracking and against the gas industry's exploitation of loopholes in the Clean Water act and the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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In 2011 Josh Fox co-founded The Solutions Project Josh Fox was forcibly removed from the board in 2016 by Ruffalo and Executive Director Sarah Shanley Hope after he complained the organization was too heavily dependent on celebrity.
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In 2021, The Solutions Project accepted 43 million dollars from Jeff Bezos and the Bezos Earth Fund an action which was condemned by Josh Fox as helping to greenwash Bezos and the large carbon footprint and unfair labor practices of Amazon.
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In February 2012 Josh Fox was arrested during a US House of Representatives subcommittee hearing on hydraulic fracturing when he attempted to videotape the proceedings.
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Josh Fox was advisor to Artists Against Fracking, Damascus Citizens and other organizations involved in the successful fight to ban fracking in New York State and the Delaware River Basin.
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Josh Fox's films have toured to hundreds of cities worldwide helping to form the global movement against fracking.
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Josh Fox worked alongside Bill McKibben, Nina Turner, Ben Jealous, Jane Kleeb and Dr Cornel West to pass an amendment to the Democratic Platform which addressed carbon pricing, the phasing out of natural gas power plants, community involvement, and adopting the Keystone XL climate standard for all federal energy projects.
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In 2008, Josh Fox's family was offered $100,000 in order to allow a natural gas fracking company to use his land in northern Pennsylvania.
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Josh Fox set out to learn more about the fracking industry.
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In January 2020, Josh Fox contracted Covid after completing his run of The Truth Has Changed in New York City.
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Josh Fox began experiencing neurological symptoms from Long Covid in March 2020 and suffered symptoms until October 2021.
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Josh Fox created the film The Edge of Nature documenting his experiences healing from the disease while living in a one room cabin in the woods of Pennsylvania.
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Josh Fox told The Guardian that he was fully healed from Long Covid but that there are valuable lessons to be learned from the experience.
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Josh Fox was awarded the 2010 LennonOno Grant for Peace by Yoko Ono.
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Josh Fox was nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film for Gasland.
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Josh Fox won the 2011 Primetime Emmy for Best Nonfiction Directing, in addition to three other Primetime Emmy nominations that year.