BIO


Josh Ruben
is an award-winning actor, writer, producer & director whose debut feature film  SCARE ME  which he wrote, produced, directed & starred alongside Aya Cash and Chris Redd premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival

 Josh's second feature film WEREWOLVES WITHIN, a horror/comedy from Ubisoft and IFC Films starring Sam Richardson, premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and has since appeared on several Best Of  lists, appeared on the cover of FANGORIA magazine, and received a Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Award award for "Best Indie." The close of 2021 saw WEREWOLVES WITHIN land in over 30 “Best of 2021” features, including many “Top Films of the Year” and “Top Horror Movies of the Year” lists, alongside major studio horror releases such as A QUIET PLACE 2 and the Palm d’Or winning TITANE. Most notably, Entertainment Weekly highlighted the “fabulous, hilarious performances of its deep-bench cast,” and Forbes gave the film its #1 pick for Best Horror, adding “it’s hands down one of the most fun films of the year.” Vulture also listed WEREWOLVES WITHIN as the #1 Video Game Movie. Rent it here.

 Josh's other directing work includes Netflix's DEATH TO 2021, Spotify's THE LAST DEGREE OF KEVIN BACON, sketches for THE LATE LATE SHOW w/ JAMES CORDEN, episodes of Adam Conover's ADAM RUINS EVERYTHING, and a myriad of commercials for clients from Geico and Comedy Central to DiGiorno. Ruben occasionally appears on Dropout TV's smash improv series MAKE SOME NOISE with his longtime buddy and collaborator, Sam Reich. 

As an actor, Josh played a serial killer in the critically acclaimed A WOUNDED FAWN, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and will appear on the debut season of THE CREEP TAPES opposite Mark Duplass from director Patrick Brice. Ruben's horror romcom HEART EYES arrives exclusively in theatres February 7, 2025 via Sony Pictures. He's next attached to direct sci-fi thriller GREEN BANK starring Jasmin Savoy Brown and Tatiana Maslany.