JOSIE BURKE

Josie Burke is an actor, writer & producer. Award winning short film 'Heirloom' that she wrote, produced and starred in alongside Tony & Emmy Nominee Norm Lewis and Drama Desk Award winner Mary Bacon, was made with an entirely female and/or non-gender identifying crew and was accepted into 22 festivals, both in the states & abroad, winning 6 of them; Best Short Film (International New York Film Festival), Best Short Screenplay (Block Island Film Festival), Best Actress & Best Short Film (Grove Film Festival), Best Editing (Sweet Democracy Film Awards) & Best American Director (8 & Halfilm Awards).

As an actor, her stage roles include The Accidental Kiss (The Dream Up Festival/Theater for the New City, NYC), & Belgrade Trilogy (4th Street Theatre, NYC). Her film roles include feature films Impossible Monsters (alongside Santino Fontana), and Worth Fighting For (available for streaming on Amazon Prime). Josie is a proud graduate of the Atlantic Theater Company's Full Time Conservatory Program, and former student of the late, great Wynn Handman. She was raised in Jersey City, where she still lives.