T.J. Walsh(I)

T. J. Walsh (co-writer: "California Myth") is a Professor of Theatre at Texas Christian University where he teaches theatre history, survey of theatre, playwriting, directing and acting. He is married with four children. His daughter Anna played volleyball for Texas Christian University and was first team All Big 12. She plays professional volleyball in Spain. He was the Founding Artistic Director of the Trinity Shakespeare Festival where he received four Outstanding Direction awards from the Dallas Fort Worth Theatre Critics Forum. His book: "Playwrights and Power: The Making of the Dramatists Guild" was published in 2016 by Smith and Kraus. His play "The Thomas Paine Panther" is published by Playwrights, Inc. He has a Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting and a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Texas at Austin where he studied with Oscar Brockett. His solo play "Pleading Infinity" about screenwriter Bob Donovan has been developed at the New York International Fringe Festival, The Hollywood Fringe Festival, Chicago's Annoyance Theatre and Austin's Frontera-Fest. Recently the Dramatists Guild Reading Series production of "Pleading Infinity" was selected by critical-rant as one of Dallas Fort Worth's top ten theatrical events of the year. Three of his original plays have been produced at Texas Christian University including "Melrose Stories", a character-driven comedy set in a bookstore on Melrose Avenue in LA, "Born on a Sunday", an intense look at Swedish playwright August Strindberg's 1896 "inferno crisis" in Paris, and "Tom Kellogg in B Flat", a romantic comedy made up of four one-act plays set in the 1980s chronicling the adventures of the title character. Two monologues from "Tom Kellogg" are published by Smith and Kraus in Best Monologues of 2020. He is a co-writer on the film "California Myth" (1999).