Josh Karp

Email: joshua.karp@northwestern.edu

Josh Karp is a journalist, film producer, and podcast host with over two decades of experience writing about movies, television, and popular culture. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, and other magazines, including Air Mail where he is currently a regular contributor. 

Karp’s book, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, was adapted into a Netflix original movie of the same name starring Will Forte, Emmy Rossum, and Joel McHale; and his book Orson Welles’s Last Movie served as the basis for Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville’s Netflix documentary They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead – which Karp co-produced.

Karp has developed television projects for Paul Giamatti’s Touchy Feely Films; Jimmy Kimmel’s Kimmelot; and Cineflix in Canada. He is currently a consulting producer on an upcoming Netflix documentary about the movies of 1975, developing an animated series, and host of a forthcoming podcast about making movies with acclaimed Leaving Las Vegas director Mike Figgis. 

Between 2005 and 2014, Karp taught magazine article writing at Columbia College, DePaul, Loyola, and Medill, where he received his Master’s degree in 2000.