PAUL WALSH, Artistic Director
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Paul Walsh (Artistic Director) teaches theater history and dramaturgy at the Yale School of Drama. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, Walsh served for three years as Head of Dramaturgy and Director of Graduate Programs at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before that he served for nine years as senior dramaturg and director of humanities at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater, where he collaborated on dozens of productions and taught in A.C.T.’s renowned M.F.A. actor-training program. While at A.C.T., Walsh helped develop new plays and translations by such important writers as Philip Kan Gotanda, Constance Congden, David Mamet, Michael Feingold, Giles Havergal, Richard Nelson, Michael Springate, Itamar Moses, and Carey Perloff. He served as dramaturg on the world premiere production of Marc Blitzstein’s 1941 workers’ opera No For An Answer, and the North American premieres of Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink and The Invention of Love. Besides his work at the New Harmony Project, Walsh has worked at such other important new-play development centers as the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, San Francisco’s PlayGround, and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
Walsh’s critically acclaimed translations of plays by Ibsen and Strindberg have been produced off-Broadway and at major regional theaters across the country. For eight years he worked with the Tony-award winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune, collaborating as dramaturg and co-author on such acclaimed productions as Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream, Germinal, Don Juan Giovanni, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Walsh is proud to serve on the Board of Directors of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Publications include articles in Re-interpreting Brecht, Strindberg's Dramaturgy, volume one of The Production Notebooks, Theatre Symposium, Essays in Theatre, and Studia Neophilologica. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama at the University of Toronto.
