Josh Drimmer

Brooklyn, New York, resident Josh Drimmer is a creative force, not only in playwriting but in the comedy and recording industries as well. Noted mainly for his playwriting abilities, Josh Drimmer has an extensive portfolio of self-written plays that have appeared at the Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors Lab, Feed the Herd Theatre Company, Inc.’s Stampede Fest, Manhattan Repertory Theater's WinterFest, and the Alley Theatre’s Houston Young Playwrights Exchange (HYPE). Author of six plays, his upcoming comedy, The Gagne Syndrome, promises to be an enlightening comedy about baseball fandom. Those who enjoy Josh Drimmer’s plays should explore his forays into comedy. He served as a Repertory Writer and Performer on Saturday Night Rewritten, a weekly sketch comedy show at Juvie Hall, from 2004 to 2007. In the meantime, Josh Drimmer tried his hand at stand-up comedy at New York City’s Theater Offendia, Sage Theater, in April of 2006. His formal comedic training includes the successful completion of Level I and Level II classes in the Harold improvisational form at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre of New York. He completed this program in May of 2004. Josh Drimmer’s other credits include serving as a resident playwright in 2005 and 2006 at the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and being a member of WetLAB, a theater collective formerly incubated by the Ensemble Studio Theatre. From 2004 to 2006, he reviewed for various independent music websites, including Junkmedia, Dusted Magazine, and Stylus Magazine. He also recorded a hip-hop EP, Supervillain v. Petty Thief, in April 2006 under the name Orlean Cooper. Josh Drimmer is currently pursuing his creative endeavors while working for MediaVest as an Associate of Connections Research & Analytics. You can often find him twirling a pen in some cafe or other in Brooklyn, where he lives with his girlfriend and their cat.