Artist: Josh Campbell
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Artist Statement
Unearthing personal stories to explore our collective conscience.
ntozake shange.
I see my work as a snapshot of people, languages, cultural spaces, and ideas; a mediation of life, culture, and the resiliency of the human spirit.
My work as a performative journal that captures who I was, where I am on my journey, and what was around me, when I stumbled upon a question.
My work is about remembrance and testimony.
the grandson of a preacher and teacher and the product of a working class family.
spirituals. blues. spoken word. jazz. hip hop. newspapers. verbatim statements. magic realism. docudrama.
Artist Bio
Josh A. Campbell is a Philly-based theater artist who has worked as a teaching artist, dramaturg, playwright, producer, director, and arts administrator for Azuka Theatre, Flashpoint Theatre Company, Juniper Productions, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, the Wilma, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and the McCarter Theater. His plays include On the Seventh Day, Surviving the Dream, Liberi Tutti, and Distill: A Rally Cry for the America People. As an actor he has appeared in the 2018 New Jersey One Minute Play Festival, in The Colored Museum, and at the Painted Bride as part of their annual Bridal Salon. He is an alumnus of the Foundry, a 2016 finalist for the Many Voices Fellowship and the Jerome Fellowship, and the 2015 BAU Institute Otranto Arts and Culture Fellow. He is a graduate of the University of the Arts and the Baltimore School for the Arts.
