Biography
Josh Singer is an American screenwriter and producer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1972, he graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He began his career writing for television, including episodes of The West Wing (1999).
Singer wrote the screenplay for The Fifth Estate (2013) and co-wrote Spotlight (2015) with Tom McCarthy, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He later wrote The Post (2017) with Liz Hannah and the screenplay for First Man (2018). He co-wrote Maestro (2023) with Bradley Cooper and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
