PAUL WALSH teaches in the Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism area of the Yale School of Drama. Prior to Yale, Walsh taught dramaturgy and dramatic literature at the University of Massachusetts (2005-08) and at Southern Methodist University in Dallas (1989-95). He served as senior dramaturg at the American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco) from 1996-2005. His translations of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (2004), Master Builder (2006) and Hedda Gabler (2007) have been produced at the American Conservatory Theater, Aurora Theater, Williamstown, People's Light and Yale Repertory Theater among others. His translations of Strindberg's five chamber plays were produced in rep by San Francisco's Cutting Ball Theatre in fall 2012 and published by Exit Press as part of the Strindberg year. In addition, Walsh has worked as dramaturg with theater companies across the country, including 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. In 2005 he 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. From 2006-2012, Walsh served as artistic director of the New Harmony Project, a new play development residency program dedicated to serving writers who celebrate hope and the resiliency of the human spirit that convenes annually in southern Indiana. Publications include articles in The Production Notebooks, Re-interpreting Brecht, Strindberg’s Dramaturgy, Theatre Symposium, Essays in Theatre, Studia Neophilologica, Canadian Theatre Reivew, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Yearbook. Walsh received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama at the University of Toronto.

Production dramaturgy (classical and contemporary), company-devised work, translation (Swedish and Norwegian).

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