John Walch, Drama
John Walch's plays include The Dinosaur Within, Circumference of a Squirrel, The Nature of Mutation, Iraq: A Love Story, Jesting with Edged Tools, Craving Gravy or Love in the Time of Cannibalism, Alice Threw the Looking Glass, A Parody of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, as well as the musical DoubleTime, with composer Nile Rodgers, and numerous one-acts, collaborations, and shorts. His plays are published through Playscripts Inc. and have been produced/developed/commissioned by theatres such as The Mark Taper Forum/Center Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, the Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Urban Stages, Kitchen Dog Theatre, and internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London. Awards include: Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays; the American Theatre Critics Association’s Osborn Award; the Charlotte Woolard Award, and three Austin Critic's Table Awards. John served has taught playwriting at the University Texas/Michener Center for Writers, Florida State University, and the Playwrights Workshop at University of Iowa. John is a resident playwright of New Dramatists in New York. He will be a visiting faculty member at Bennington for the Spring Term of 2007.
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