Josh Pais Biography

Fast Facts

• Won an Audience Award at the 2003 Boston Independent Film Festival for his documentary "7th Street․"
• Along with the rest of the cast of "Please Give," he was nominated for a Chlotridus Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble Cast in 2011
• Attended Syracuse University where he studied acting and directing
• Born to a theoretical physicist father who worked with Albert Einstein for 11 years and an artist and poet mother
• When he was 10 years old, he and the girl who lived next door would perform in collaborative skits in their living room before audiences of 40 people every week
• His approach to acting is based around creating in the present moment and has a strong physical component, techniques he formed Committed Impulse to teach
• His first big film role was in 1990's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," in which he was both the costume and the voice of his character, the only actor to perform both functions