Joshua Ravetch

Joshua Ravetch is an American playwright, screenwriter and stage director born in Los Angeles, California, who co-created and directed Carrie Fisher's one-woman show Wishful Drinking, which had a successful run on Broadway.

Ravetch's play One November Yankee began its life at the NoHo Arts Theatre in a workshop production starring Academy nominated, Robert Forster and M*A*S*H's own Hot Lips Houlihan, Loretta Swit .

Ravetch also wrote and directed a workshop production of The Astronomer, which was performed at The Pasadena Playhouse with Academy Award winner Shirley Jones in the title role (after an initial reading at the NoHo Arts Center Theatre).

Other writing credits include Periscope Up a play in one act which was performed at the NoHo Arts Theatre and was directed by Star Trek veteran Jonathan Frakes.

A project conceived over Covid tracking the true-life stories of gay and trans kids who have been put through the utterly damaging and traumatic atrocity known as Conversion Therapy, a practice slowly being outlawed throughout the USA.

Ravetch's other playwriting credits include Girders which he wrote and directed and which enjoyed an extended run at Los Angeles' Coast Playhouse starring Robert Forster.

Ravetch's television credits include CBS' Joan of Arcadia, Titan for TNT, Horseshoe Bay for Warner Brothers, and Yesterday for Laura Ziskin Productions.