joshua chamberlain

Category: life

  • on being your own archivist

    Some part of me is deluded enough to think people will care when I’m gone. They’ll riffle through my desk drawers and file cabinets and papers and books. They’ll wonder how I spent my days and pore over my mad scribblings and doodles and insane notes in an attempt to…

  • “We All Say God”

    Last year, I wrote and directed a short film called We All Say God, which is currently available on YouTube. The film was also recently accepted into the Marina del Rey Film Festival and placed at a finalist in the Malibu Film Festival. A special shoutout to the entire cast…

  • lessons learned from houseplants

    Early in the pandemic, I started collecting plants in my living room. Surrounding myself with green things helped provide peace of mind during a period of so much upheaval and tumult. Here was something I could control, something I could care for. All I needed was a little potting soil…

  • all you can do is the work

    I’ve fought with my desire to control for years. We’re all hurtling through the world, like pinballs ricocheting off one another. While it’s reasonable to expect today will look a lot like yesterday, the truth is we’re thrust head-first into the unknown each morning. This is something I’ve always struggled…

  • Screen Craft Finalist

    My full-length play, All Stations Distress, was recently selected as a finalist in this year’s Screen Craft Stage Play Competition. A tremendous thank you to the team of directors, producers, actors, and collaborators over the years who have helped me develop this transformative piece of work.

  • “Trouble”

    Last summer, I had the opportunity to work as the Associate Producer on the short film, “Trouble,” written and directed by Jacob Chase and starring Anthony Rapp and John Rubenstein. The work we do is always worth sharing, but this was a project I was especially thrilled to be a…

  • tell the story

    A while back, I wrote a play. I was in conversations with a theater company about producing this play when the world shut down. A lot of things happened after that. You know what I’m talking about. Now, theaters wants to produce plays with a message, plays that say something…

  • tunneling to the other side

    Last night, I watched If These Walls Could Sing, a documentary about Abbey Road Studios, on Disney+ and had an absolutely ball. What resonated more than anything was the number of musicians who spoke about Abbey Road Studios with a sense of spiritual awe, as though the space itself is…

  • speaking truth to power

    I recently listened to an episode of The Moment with Brian Koppelman in which Koppelman reflects on his late father’s influence and the lessons learned from watching his father operate in the music business. One of these lessons is how to speak truth to power, a privilege that stems from…

  • ask for what you want

    Every time I decide to write about my “Rules to Live By,” this is where I get stuck. It’s a simple enough piece of advice, and yet I’ve struggled with it throughout much of my life. The first time I heard this nugget of wisdom articulated this way, I’d just…