“There are absolutely beautiful, nuanced, deeply felt performances from the superb cast throughout.…The portrait on stage of the closeness and life-giving comfort of marriage is one of the loveliest I've seen, with beautiful and tender work from Josh Odsess-Rubin and Zarah Mahler.”
—BroadwayWorld on A Shayna Maidel, March 2024
A Shayna Maidel
Laguna Playhouse
March 13 - 31
See Josh in Ramiz Monsef’s Brother Gary — directed by Giovanna Sardelli and co-starring Hugo Armstrong, George Salazar, Rich Liccardo, KT Vogt, and Kamal Angelo — January 27 at the Kirk Douglas!
Quiet on set…
Shot a few lovely short films recently — Joanne Mony Park’s Bloomed in the Water, and Naomi Iwamoto’s Sixteen
Wild farce NIMROD playing at Theatre of NOTE — starring Kirsten Vangsness — with Josh as a hapless Slovenian immigrant
Closing out the year on some very fun sets — one comedy, one drama — stay tuned for more info!
New reps! Delighted to be signed theatrically with Matt Jackson at McDonald / Selznick Associates and commercially with Jamie Hernandez & Valerie Chiovetti at KMR
A dreamy week spent at Ojai Playwrights Festival acting alongside Ramiz Monsef and Michole Briana White in Bill Cain’s new GOD’S SPIES
OUR TOWN
South Coast Repertory
May 24 - June 4, 2022
See Josh as Cousin Oliver on the
award-winning series THIS IS US
April 19 & April 16, 2022
Did you catch Josh winning a car (and more!) on THE PRICE IS RIGHT? 🤯
Spring 2022: Coming soon to a critically-acclaimed NBC drama — stay tuned!
NEXT UP:
Romeo in ROMEO & JULIET IN AMERICA
directed by L. Peter Callender
July 21 - Aug 1, 2021
American Stage Theatre Company
Stream Josh’s appearance on HBO Max’s
critically-acclaimed Hacks on May 27th
Josh wrapped principal photography on dark comedy Good Bad Luck, playing a Russian hitman on a quest for revenge
Check out Josh as a protein-deficient farmhand in this new Lactaid spot!
FEB 2021: Josh is thrilled to be newly represented by industry powerhouse Echo Lake Entertainment
JAN 2021: Some very exciting TV news upcoming…!
FALL 2020: Delighted to be back on some sets — shooting a beverage commercial, an educational industrial, and a print campaign with my “pod”!
Josh’s election series -- Tomorrow's CA Today -- was a hit on Instagram, educating folks on the CA ballot measures...And John Oliver kindly didn't even sue him! (Click below to see ep. 1)
FirstGlance Film Festival nominated Josh for Best Actor for
feminist sci-fi comedy A Girl From a Box
This pandemic summer, Josh became at pro at acting for Zoom, performing online in everything from THEATRE OF NOTE workshops to staged readings with PLAY ON SHAKESPEARE and THE COLLABORATIVE to a fully-produced world premiere with AMERICAN STAGE
NEXT UP:
the timely political drama
The City of Conversation
directed by Joanne Gordon
Coachella Valley Rep
March 11-29, 2020
THE GOOD JEW makes its big screen debut at the Burbank International Film Festival on Thursday, September 5!
Click here for tickets & more info
Josh won a SCENIE award for "Best Featured Actor in a Comedy" for his turn as Edward in South Coast Rep's Sense and Sensibility!
Josh was also nominated for “Outstanding Leading Actor in a Play” at the Tampa Bay Theatre Awards for Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, which won “Best Production of the Year”!
American Stage’s three-and-a-half-hour LONG DAY’S JOURNEY opened to glowing reviews!
Broadwayworld called the show “terrifying, pulverizing, a wallop in the gut” and singled out Josh’s turn as Edmund as “absolutely brilliant” among the “tear-your-heart-out performances”
See even more raves on the REVIEWS page!
May/June 2019: Josh is returning to American Stage to play Edmund Tyrone in Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece, dir. by Brendon Fox
NEXT UP:
Anna Ziegler’s beautiful Photograph 51
directed by Kimberly Senior
South Coast Repertory
March 3-24, 2019
Tickets at www.scr.org
Josh will be playing Caden in a reading of Larissa FastHorse’s hilarious satire THE THANKSGIVING PLAY, directed by Bart DeLorenzo, Sunday, January 20, as part of the Old Globe’s 2019 New Voices Festival
More info here!
Catch Josh as the male lead, Arthur, in MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY — at American Stage in St. Petersburg, FL, this Nov 28-Dec 30!
The LA Times found Josh “endearingly awkward” and “Hugh Grant”-esque —
click for more REVIEWS of Sense & Sensibility!
Josh is delighted to be making his South Coast Repertory debut Sept. 1-29, 2018, as Edward Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility
~ Click HERE for ticket information ~
Summer 2018: Josh is shooting a role in a feature horror film by the screenwriter of The Grudge -- playing an anxious young cop trying to save the child lead
Josh's Men's Wearhouse spot is now airing nationwide! Check it out!
Spring 2018: Josh is thrilled to be joining the cast of cold-war-farce Red Herring at Portland Stage Company -- tickets available HERE
Josh spent January filming the lead in quirky sci-fi comedy Girl from a Box, alongside Wayne Wilderson (The Office) and Danielle Kennedy (Narcos), with a brief break to shoot a Men's Wearhouse commercial!
See Josh featured in preview footage for ANIMAL CRACKERS and in a widely-seen MALIBU RUM commercial
