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Josh Fox is an American film
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and environmental activist, best known for his Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning 2010 documentary, ''
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''. He is one of the most prominent public opponents of
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and
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. He 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 ''
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Early life and education

Fox was born on July 24, 1975, and lived in
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. He is Jewish. He went to PS 6 in New York City, Wagner Junior High School and Columbia Preparatory School for High School. He attended
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, majoring in theater, and graduated in 1995. Fox worked as an actor in Chicago in the early 1990s, and was featured in numerous plays including Drunkboat with Tracy Letts, Jim True and Michael Shannon at Steppenwolf theatre, Goose and TomTom by David Rabe at the Theater Building, and The Love of the Nightingale directed by Amy Landecker at the Next Theater. Beginning in 1994, Fox trained extensively with Anne Bogart, and SITI Company members Ellen Lauren, Will Bond, Stephen Webber and Barney O’Hanlon in Viewpoints, Suzuki and Composition.


Artistic career

Fox founded the film and theatre company International WOW Company in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 1996 with a group of performers from New York City and Asia. He has written and directed over 30 plays with his ensemble. Notable works include ''?WOW!'' (1996), ''This is Not the Ramakian'' (1997), ''Stairway to the Stars'' (1999), ''HyperReal America'' (2001), ''The Bomb'' (2002), Orphan on God's Highway (2002), Death of Nations Parts 1-4 (2003-6), ''The Comfort and Safety of Your Own Home'' (2004),''The Expense of Spirit'' (2004), ''Limitless Joy'' (2005), ''Surrender'' (2008), and ''Solutions Grassroots'' (2014). In addition, Josh has written, directed, and produced seven feature films, and over 25 short films, which have premiered in New York, Asia and around Europe. The ''New York Times'' has hailed him as “one of the most adventurous impresarios of the New York avant-garde” and ''Time Out'' NY called him “one of downtown’s most audacious auteurs,” citing his “brilliantly resourceful mastery of stagecraft.” In addition to his work with International WOW Company, Fox has participated as an actor, director, designer and writer in numerous international theater collaboration projects in Japan, Thailand, the Philippines and Germany. He 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. He was also the first western performer to work with ''Pappa Tarahumara'' dance/theatre company, creating roles for ''WD'' (2001) and ''The Sound of Future Sync (2002)'' which performed at the Setagaya Public Theatre and the New National Theatre in Tokyo. He created Heimwehen, Death of Nations Part V (2006) with Frank Raddatz, the former dramaturg of Heiner Muller, for the Forum Freies Theatre in Düsseldorf. Fox was a frequent collaborator of Filipino playwright, actor and screenwriter Rody Vera throughout the early 2000s. In 2008, Fox directed his first narrative feature film, ''Memorial Day'', an examination of American party culture, the
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which was executive produced by
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of
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In 2010, he wrote, directed, and produced ''
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'', one of the first major films about the environmental impacts of fracking. Gasland premiered at the
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in competition, winning the critics poll and the Special Jury Prize for Documentary. The film is widely credited as galvanizing the anti-fracking movement worldwide, making fracking a household word. Josh later produced the
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sequel ''
Gasland Part II ''Gasland'' is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Josh Fox. It focuses on communities in the United States where natural gas drilling activity was a concern and, specifically, on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), a method ...
'', which aired July 2013 and was released on DVD in January 2014. On October 1, 2015, Fox's mini-documentary ''GasWork'', which detailed the hazardous working conditions in the hydraulic fracturing oil and gas drilling industry, debuted on ''
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''. In 2016, 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 many notable figures on climate change such as
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, the
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, and
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. Josh 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. In 2017, he produced, co-directed and co-wrote AWAKE, A DREAM FROM STANDING ROCK with indigenous filmmakers Doug Good Feather and Myron Dewey, which premiered at the
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on Earth Day, launched on Netflix and toured to hundreds of locations around the world. In 2018 he co-founded the AWAKE MEDIA FELLOWSHIP for indigenous youth with leaders Stephanie Cassidy, Doug Good Feather and others. In 2018, 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. In the performance he tells of his extensive frontline reporting with an emphasis on the smear campaigns waged against him for nearly a decade by the fossil fuel industry. The project has toured to over 25 cities in the US and Europe and has been seen by thousands of people in support of dozens progressive, environmental and grassroots organizations. ''The Truth Has Changed'' is Fox's first book, published by Seven Stories Press. In January 2020
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abruptly ended Fox's run on ''The Truth Has Changed'' following a dispute with the theater. Fox and International WOW Company staff including producer Diane Crespo alleged that
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staff had physically attacked Fox while preparing for a show. Fox also alleged that festival director
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was verbally abusive to him before shows. Fox and the company submitted several formal written complaints about code of conduct violations and while pursuing these complaints the show's run of three remaining shows was halted. Fox was asked to meet with Public Theater Artistic Director
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, Anne Bogart, Chris Smalls, Cenk Uygur, Nick Panken, Marquita Bradshaw,
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, Alexander Zaitchik, Doug GoodFeather, Myron Dewey,
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, Tommie Sunshine, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, John Boutte, Jamie Margolin, Rebekah Jones among others. The show ran for more than 200 episodes on
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network in 2020 and 2021.


Activism

Fox is known for his opposition of
hydraulic fracturing Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of bedrock formations by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "frack ...
, or fracking. He 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. In 2011 Mr. Fox co-founded The Solutions Project with actor
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, scientist
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and banker Marco Krapels with the aim of moving the United States towards
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, including the use of
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and
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. Although Mr. Fox envisioned the group to be a grassroots organization to promote renewable energy, in 2014 the board voted down grassroots organizing work and began to emphasize PR and marketing campaigns by Ruffalo and other celebrities. Mr. 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. All founders except Mark Ruffalo were removed from the board in subsequent years. In 2021, The Solutions Project accepted 43 million dollars from
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and the
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an action which was condemned by Mr. Fox as helping to greenwash Bezos and the large carbon footprint and unfair labor practices of
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. In February 2012 Fox was arrested during a
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subcommittee hearing on hydraulic fracturing when he attempted to videotape the proceedings. Josh was advisor to Artists Against Fracking, Damascus Citizens and many other organizations involved in the successful fight to ban fracking in New York State and the Delaware River Basin. Fox's films have toured to hundreds of cities worldwide helping to form the global movement against fracking. In 2016, he worked as a surrogate for
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as the Creative Director for
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and as a member of the campaign's NY Platform Committee. He worked alongside
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,
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,
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and Dr. Cornel West to pass an amendment to the Democratic Platform which addressed
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, the phasing out of natural gas power plants, community involvement, and adopting the Keystone XL climate standard for all federal energy projects.


Personal life

In 2008, Fox's family was offered $100,000 in order to allow a natural gas fracking company to use his land in northern Pennsylvania. Fox set out to learn more about the fracking industry. After doubting some of the natural gas company's claims, he went on a mission to research them further, crossing the country visiting other gas fields. His experiences lead to his anti-fracking activism.


Awards and nominations

Fox was awarded the 2010
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by
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. ''
Gasland ''Gasland'' is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Josh Fox. It focuses on communities in the United States where natural gas drilling activity was a concern and, specifically, on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), a method ...
'' premiered at the
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, where it was awarded the 2010 Special Jury Prize for Documentary. It was also nominated for Best Documentary Screenplay by the WGA and was awarded the
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Award for Best Documentary. Fox received a 2011 Academy Award Nomination for Best Documentary for ''Gasland''. He won the 2011 Primetime Emmy for Best Nonfiction Directing, in addition to three other Primetime Emmy nominations that year. ''Gasland Part II'' premiered on HBO July 8, 2013 won the 2013 Environmental Media Association award for Best Documentary, the Best Film at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival, and the Hell Yeah Prize from Cinema Eye honors. It was nominated for a 2013 News and Documentary Emmy. '' How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change'' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016, and won the Environmental Advocacy award at the Washington DC Environmental Film Festival. The film was awarded the 2016 Environmental Media Association Award for Best Documentary, Fox's third consecutive win in that category. For his theatre work, Fox has received five grants from the
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, five MAP Fund Grants, a
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Nomination, and an Otto Award.


Filmography

* ''Memorial Day'' (2008) – directed * ''
Gasland ''Gasland'' is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Josh Fox. It focuses on communities in the United States where natural gas drilling activity was a concern and, specifically, on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), a method ...
'' (2010) – directed, wrote, produced * ''The Sky is Pink'' (short) (2012) – directed, wrote, produced, co-editor (with Matt Sanchez) * ''Gasland Part II'' (2013) – directed, wrote, produced * ''Gaswork: The Fight for CJ's Law'' (short) (2013) * '' How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change'' (2016) – directed, wrote, produced * ''Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock'' (2017) – co-directed, co-wrote, produced * ''Staying Home with Josh Fox'' (2020–21) * ''The Truth Has Changed'' (2021) – written, directed * ''The Edge of Nature'' (2023) - written, directed, produced, music


Works for the Stage

* ''?WOW!'' (1996) – conceived, directed * ''American Interference'' (1997) – conceived, directed * ''This is NOT the Ramakian'' (1997) – conceived, directed * ''The Sleeping and The Dead'' (1998) – conceived, directed * ''Stairway to The Stars'' (1999) – conceived, directed * ''HyperReal America'' (2001) – conceived, directed * ''Soon My Work'' (2001) – written, directed * ''THE BOMB'' (2002) – conceived, directed * ''Orphan on God's Highway'' (2002) – conceived, directed * ''Death of Nations Parts 1-5 - THE TRAILER, THE THAI PLAY, HEIMWEHEN, HOW TO LET GO OF THE SUN' (2003-2006) – conceived, directed * ''The Comfort And Safety of Your Own Home'' (2004) – conceived, directed * ''The Expense of Spirit'' (2004) – written, directed * ''Limitless Joy'' (2005) – written, directed * ''You Belong To Me'' (2006) – written, directed * ''SURRENDER'' (2008) – written, directed * ''RECONSTRUCTION'' (2010) – written, directed * ''Solutions Grassroots'' (2014) – written, directed * ''The Truth Has Changed'' (2020) – written, directed


See also

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* The Solutions Project *''
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''


References


External links

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International WOW Company
Fox's theatre organization {{DEFAULTSORT:Fox, Josh 1972 births Living people American documentary film directors American environmentalists Jewish American dramatists and playwrights Columbia College (New York) alumni People from Wayne County, Pennsylvania Film directors from Pennsylvania 21st-century American Jews