Josh Hillinger

Josh is a trained actor, host and comedian. He performs and writes sketch comedy and is the host and producer of The Live Drinking Game Sketch Show. He co-hosts a two man improv show and has worked with members of iOWest and Improv Shmimprov of Fullerton. He hosted and performed in Still Stuck in High School, a variety show that featured bands that played Coachella, comedians who headline around the nation, and a Blue Man. He is currently a comedy coach and consultant, and voice-over actor – please hire him.

Josh earned his BA in Theatre from San Francisco State University, ambitiously kicking off his final semester and the show Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding in the same month. He went on perform with ‘TNT’ for two years before moving to LA. In college, he was a founding member of The Improvisational Theatre Society, and performed in the main stage productions Floyd Collins, Lovers and Other Strangers, Cloud 9, Art, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

He worked for four years with San Francisco Sketchfest and was the Production Manager for Point Break Live. He assistant directed SFSU’s production of Urinetown, and went on to collaborate with his mom, the very talented director Sheila Silver, as the assistant director for her productions of Urinetown, Nicholas Nickleby, and The Laramie Project at Culver City High School, and The Mystery of Edwin and The Diviners at San Juan Hills High School. He taught improv and movement at Culver City High School.

Recent roles include John Quincy Adams, Indian, Senator, Messenger, Indian III, Tourist, Lawyer, Soldier, Florida Man, Cowboy, Angry Frontiersman, and Man in ‘Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,’ Comet in ‘The 8 Reindeer Monologues,’ and performed briefly with cARTel’s clown troupe Everybody Nose.