Josué Brenner
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Josué "Josh" Brenner grew up in the same hometown as John Hughes and lived near Chicago Bulls superstar Michael "Air" Jordan. Josué attended the University of Pennsylvania where he was a writer and performer with the Mask and Wig Club, played club soccer, and was a student of actor/playwright Oni Faida Lampley and Peruvian poet Eduardo Chirinos. Josué immersed himself in the history of Latin American Cinema in Argentina at La Universidad de Buenos Aires and later trained in vocal improvisation with Bobby McFerrin in New York. Josué studied creative non-fiction writing with Mishka Shubaly at the Yale Writers' Workshop and was one of 16 international directors in the 2023 summer cohort at Yale College's 10-day Practical Approach to Directing. During this Workshop, the "Director's Lab", taught by Professors Evan Yionoulis and Patric Madden, allowed Josué to explore an experimental improvisational interpretation of Paul Newman's direction of John Malkovich's performance as Tom in The Glass Menagerie (in Mandarin, Spanish, and English) as his final project, which he dedicated to the memory of Robin Williams. Josué is the step-brother of the late actress, Lindsey Pearlman, and continually advocates for increasing mental health awareness and the trait of human compassion.