Joshua Conkel is a queer screenwriter and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He has written for Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events as well as Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He’s currently writing for HBO Max’s Dead Boy Detectives and in post-production on his queer horror short, He Watches.

His short film Curmudgeons (directed by and starring Danny DeVito) premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival and won numerous awards in festivals around the world. You can watch it here.

Joshua writes at the intersections of spooky and cute, funny and sad, YA and adult, high brow and low brow, kitschy and earnest, and more. He is a lover of trashy reality shows, b-movies, literary fiction, and art films. His taste is extremely queer and his writing runs the gamut.

He is the co-host of the weekly arthouse horror podcast Bloodhaus.