Josh Healey

Josh Healey is an award-winning comedic writer, performer, filmmaker, and creative activist. Together with his rabble-rousing team at Offsides Productions, he has written and produced political comedy videos and creative campaigns featuring Daveed Diggs, Sarah Silverman, W. Kamau Bell, Lewis Black, and Diane Guerrero that reached over 15 million viewers and amplified social justice movements across the country. As program director at Movement Generation, Josh co-wrote and produced two seasons of The North Pole, a comedic web series with Rosario Dawson and Boots Riley about gentrification, global warming, and gluten-free donuts. A regular performer on NPR’s Snap Judgment, Josh has been featured in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and his 13-year-old nephew Brian Silverstein’s YouTube page, where he has at least 27 thumbs up. He has performed and led workshops at UC Berkeley, Harvard, NYU, and over 200 colleges, high schools, and juvenile detention centers across the country. Born and raised in DC, these days Josh eats his daily bagel in Oakland, CA.