Author Archives: Josh Hornbeck

About Josh Hornbeck

I am a writer and director living and working in Seattle, WA.

The Displacement Bureau – Short Play

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Josh Hornbeck

The Displacement Bureau is a sketch that takes a humorous look at the ways people in power displace those on the lower levels of society.  After a brief slide-show commercial detailing the services of “The Displacement Bureau,” we see members … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Cabin in the Woods

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Josh Hornbeck

I have this love/hate relationship with horror movies.  At their best, they function as a gruesome, fun-house mirror of our own darker impulses, metaphors for a broken world that explore the consequences of our collective sin and guilt.  At their … Continue reading →

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Tragedy, Silence, and Artistic Intentions: Final Reflections on “The Trojan Women”

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Josh Hornbeck

We closed quiet‘s production of The Trojan Women Saturday night.  We had a really great run, good houses and receptive audiences.  My actors did an absolutely fantastic job, taking a very difficult two-thousand-year-old play and breathing life and passion into … Continue reading →

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Radio (or, as it were, Blog) Silence

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Josh Hornbeck

I just realized that it has been nearly a month since my last post.  It was a little sad.  I mean, I was so resolved to be better about updating my website now that I’ve switched providers and made it … Continue reading →

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Movie Review – Incendies

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Josh Hornbeck

War leaves its mark on a people and a nation that is still visible even decades after the conflict has ended.  There’s no escape.  We try to ignore the broken soldiers coming home from battle.  We allow ourselves to dehumanize … Continue reading →

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The Gift – Full-Length Play

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Josh Hornbeck

Milan Abernathy is so focused on throwing the perfect Christmas party for her wealthy friends that she has lost sight of the true meaning of Christmas.  But with a little help from her new personal assistant and the nearby rescue … Continue reading →

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Movie Review – The Sleeping Beauty (2010)

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Josh Hornbeck

Complaints about the Disneyfication of fairy-tales are common.  After all, in all of their animated fairy-tales from Snow White in 1937 to Tangled in 2010, the studio has removed much of the darkness and moral heft from these timeless stories.  … Continue reading →

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The Embrace – Short Play

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Josh Hornbeck

The Embrace is a play for one actor about the struggles of being a single mother.  Dealing with a dead-beat ex, financial worries, and the pitfalls of dating, The Embrace looks at the joy and the pain of life as … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Phantom India and Calcutta

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Josh Hornbeck

In the late-sixties, French New Wave pioneer Louis Malle traveled to India to begin work on one of the most ambitious projects of his career.  For most of the next five months, he and his small (self-financed) crew shot footage … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Midnight in Paris

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Josh Hornbeck

I wonder if living in the past is just a part of the human condition.  It’s so easy to find ourselves reliving past glories or rehearsing our embarrassments and failures.  We long to return to a simpler time, an easier … Continue reading →

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