Bio

Josh Machiz is a Philadelphia-based musician & DC born, comedian, theater maker, and composer who has been confusing and delighting audiences across North America for the last 2 decades. He is a 2-Time Barrymore Award Winner and was co-recipient of an American Composers Forum Grant. He has worked with several Grammy Award, Emmy Award, Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Pew Grant, Obie Award & MacArthur Genius Grant winners; and the answer to a Jeopardy clue (No Oscar Award winners yet, but he’s available, Hollywood). Notable collaborators include: Mickey Roker, Uri Caine, Jennifer Higdon, Chip Chantry, Chris Botti, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Bobby Eli, David Mayfield, Michael Ray, Tara Middleton, Matthew Weiss, Martha Graham Cracker, Rosie Langabeer, Denise King, Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Wilma Theater, First Person Arts, BalletX, Opera Philadelphia, Philadelphia Ballet, People’s Light Theater, Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus, Philadelphia Voices of Pride and Pig Iron Theater Company.

The New York Times described his music as “What the mail sounds like.” dosage Magazine calls him “Philadelphia’s giant musical force.” CBS called TJ Kong & the Atomic Bomb “entertainingly unhinged.” The Charm City Comedy Festival describes him as “Surrealist Stand Up Comedy.” The Walt Whitman High School Newspaper lists Josh as “a former student.” Josh Machiz has been entrusted to hold babies by no less than 4 mothers and “has never dropped any of them.”

Josh is currently a member TJ Kong & the Atomic Bomb, Josh Machiz Brasses, Arcana New Music Ensemble, Dirty Dollhouse, Hurricane Hoss, & Hot Club of Philadelphia. Philly Weekly calls him, “one of Philadelphia’s most in-demand bass, sousaphone, & tuba players”; he plays a number of other instruments as well. He was a co-writer of the hit Ballet, Sunset o639 Hours with Rosie Langabeer, Andrew Mars, & Isaac Stanford; choreographed by Matthew Neenan. In comedy, Josh is a featured comedian in the 2018 Turnpike Comedy Festival on Amazon Prime and he’s a Philly’s Phunniest Semi-Finalist. He was a regular contributor to Eavesdropping on America, a satirical podcast that The Onion mistook for earnest anthropological studies and lauded as, “consistently thought-provoking and prove[d] difficult to shake.” He has 2 new Web Series available on YouTube: Josh Matchstick, the Tiny Cruise Ship Comedian & Josh Machiz Destroys cat Heckler.

Josh has performed for Jazz Night in America on NPR & PBS and at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Guggenheim Museum, Kennedy Center, Kimmel Center, SXSW, Helium Comedy Club, Punch Line Philly, Pittsburgh Opera, Charm City Comedy Fest, Bitter End, Joyce Theater, Vail International Dance Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, Philadelphia Folk Festival, 92nd Street Y, A.R.T.’s Oberon Theater at Harvard University, La Mama, Mann Center, MusikFest, Good Good Comedy Theater, Philly Sketchfest, TLA, QED Astoria, Union Transfer, Trocadero, FringeArts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Barnes Foundation, Bucks County Playhouse, Kricket Comedy, & CMJ. He’s also performed in online content produced by the Public Theater & Joe’s Pub and for radio on WHYY, WXPN, WKDU, WTUL, WRTI, WBGO, & WRUW. His projects have received rave reviews from the NY Times, Boston Globe, USA Today, Huffington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, CBS, Philadelphia Weekly, & Broadway World. He co-produces Case Comedy at Upstairs at Abyssinia which was named Best of Philly - Comedy Night by Philadelphia Magazine and co-produced Grin & Beer It Comedy Show at Earth Bread + Brewery, & Young Xers Night Comedy Shows at the Wilma Theater. He also babysits on Tuesday mornings.

As an educator, Josh was a long time faculty member of Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz, Nelly Berman School of Music, & Philly Music Lessons teaching Upright Bass, Electric Bass, & Music Theory and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. He’s a graduate of Temple University’s Boyer School of Music with a B.M. in Jazz Performance, but he hates school.

Josh Machiz is sometimes confused online with NASDAQ Chief Digital Officer Head of Client Engagement & TEDx Times Square Board Member, Josh Machiz, but Musician & Comic Josh Machiz will never be as famous as the Marketing EDGE Rising Star Award Winner and producer of Emmy Award winning Never Settle Show and Cultural Capital who recently interviewed Jessica Alba for his new show NASDAQ’s Mission Driven, Josh Machiz; whose Instagram & Twitter Handles are @Machiz. As of now, former Frucher LLC Consulting Firm Chief Business Officer & NASDAQ Spokesperson, Josh Machiz’s LinkedIn profile is the first hit on Search Engines when one searches for Josh Machiz, so this paragraph is in this biography for the sole purpose of maximizing Search Engine Optimization or SEO to obtain the first hit on Search Engines for Musician & Comedian Josh Machiz and eventually taking over as the Chief Digital Officer for NASDAQ for the other Josh Machiz. NASDAQ picks their Chief Digital Officer by whichever Josh Machiz is the first search option on Google, right?

Anyway, if you feel your time has been wasted by the last two paragraphs of this Biography, please don’t hold it against either Josh Machiz or NASDAQ or Music or Comedy and continue on to the rest of the website for further Josh Machiz Music & Comedy content (this will be the last you hear of NASDAQ on this site). You should be grateful you are a human with conscious thought during this unique moment in the history of the universe and that you have the innate human ability to hold a grudge against a biography that wasted your time. And this bio has been placed on this site twice for SEO & navigation purposes, so if you have read it twice, Josh Machiz feels sorry for you. So does the other Josh Machiz.