Joshua Young is a member of the 2020 Project Y Playwrights Group, a member of the 2020 The Flea Serials Writers Room, and was a proud member of The Public Theater's 2018-2019 Emerging Writers Group. His plays include Lime-A-Rita Racist (The Public Theater’s 2019 Spotlight Reading Series, 2020 New American Voices Playwriting Festival Semifinalist), Red Room on a Dark Web (Primary Stages ESPA Drills 2019 Reading Series, 2018 O'Neill semifinalist, 2018 SPACE Working Farm semifinalist), Appalachian Pachinko! (Freshground Pepper Playgroup 2019 finalist), My Guggenheim Play (SPACE Working Farm 2019 semifinalist), The Execution and The Rapture (Mabou Mines 2019 Resident Artist semifinalist, PlayPenn 2017 semifinalist), and Who Mourns for Bob the Goon? (HERE Arts Center Sublet Series 2016, Mabou Mines 2016 Resident Artist semifinalist.)

He was a 2019 Melnick Award Finalist and a 2018 Horton Foote Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He’s a two time Cherry Lane Mentor Project nominee and his playwriting has been developed or produced at: The Public Theater, Primary Stages, The HERE Arts Center, The Cherry Lane Theatre, Dixon Place, The Brick, The Tank, New York Madness, The One Minute Play Festival, Naked Angels, and FringeNYC. He’s a founding member of The Playwriting Collective, a playwright driven initiative designed to support writers from lower economic backgrounds.