Paul Walsh
pwalsh@theater.umass.edu
Graduate Program Director
Assistant Professor: Dramaturgy
B.A., English, Arizona State University: MA, English, University of Minnesota;
PhD, Drama, Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, University of Toronto; Certificate, Swedish, Kursverksamheten at Uppsala University

Before coming to the University of Massachusetts in 2005 to teach dramaturgy and dramatic literature, Walsh served for nine years as resident dramaturg and director of humanities at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater, where he collaborated on dozens of productions and developmental projects including his own translations of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler and Strindberg’s Creditors. In 2005 Walsh co-wrote with A.C.T. artistic director Carey Perloff a new version of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol that continues to play at A.C.T. His translation of Ibsen’s The Master Builder was commissioned and produced by the Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley in February 2006. Walsh is currently working on new translations of August Strindberg’s Chamber Plays for production by San Francisco’s Cutting Ball Theater. In addition, Walsh has worked as dramaturg, translator, and co-author with theater companies across the country, including the Tony-award winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune, with whom he collaborated on such award-winning productions as Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream, Don Juan Giovanni,Germinal and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Walsh serves on the board of directors of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) and as artistic director of the New Harmony Project, a new play development residency program in New Harmony, Indiana, dedicated to serving writers who celebrate the human spirit. Publications include articles in The Production Notebooks, Re-interpreting Brecht, Strindberg’s Dramaturgy, Theatre Symposium, Essays in Theatre, Studia Neophilologica, Canadian Theatre Review, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Yearbook.

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