Josh Fox is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on July 24, 1972 in New York, United States. He and Tim Hetherington both made Oscar-nominated documentaries that were part of the 83rd Academy Awards. and He and Tim Hetherington both made Oscar-nominated documentaries that were part of the 83rd Academy Awards. both produced Oscar-nominated documentaries which included in the 85th Academy Awards.
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 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 learning the truth behind some of the natural gas company’s false positive claims, he went on a mission to uncover them further, crossing the country visiting other fracking areas and seeing their drinking water conditions, birthing his anti-fracking activism.
The place he was raised is Milanville, Pennsylvania.
He is known for his stance against horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. He started and was later the creative director for the new York-based theater and film group The International WOW Company. The street was named in his honor in France in the region where the French anti-shale gas movement came into the fore.
Fox was born in 1972 and lived in Milanville, Pennsylvania. 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 Columbia University, 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.
