Tony Wash

Writing

Born July 9, 1980 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Wash has spent most of his life in the Chicagoland area. In 2005, during his last semester at Tom Savini's FX school in Pittsburgh, PA Tony Wash began production on his choose your own adventure horror feature, It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To. Receiving numerous festival awards upon its release followed by rave reviews from critics and fans alike, It's My Party solidified Wash and his company, Scotchworthy Productions as a reliable source for quality independent horror. Focusing on high end production value and award-winning practical special FX, Scotchworthy Productions has been doling out frame after frame of gory delight for over 20 years now. Wash has worked with such notable actors as Sid Haig, Shenae Grimes-Beech, Izabella Miko, Rachel Melvin, Tom Savini, and Joe Nunez and his work has been distributed across the world by companies including Sony Home Entertainment. Most recently, Tony helped produce 2020's, The Stylist, and in 2022 the features Black Mold and Sin Eater. Wash also co-created Bloody-Disgusting.com's web series World of Death and is the short film curator for the popular horror website. In 2020, Bloody Disgusting partnered with Scotchworthy Productions to provide their AVOD channel BD TV with a new original series, Bloody Bites. Bites gives independent horror filmmakers an avenue to worldwide exposure through the #1 source for online horror and is among the highest rated content on Bloody Disgusting TV. With four features and a number of shorts including the 2014 SXSW Midnight favorite, The Muck under his belt, Tony Wash looks forward to getting back on set to create his next fear-inducing shocker! "Some brilliance comes around such as a film I did recently called High on the Hog with director, Tony Wash. He's relatively new in the business of feature lengths but he knows what he's doing. I put my faith in him and I wound up as a producer on that film." - Sid Haig 2016