Bruce Walsh is a contemporary American playwright

Playwright

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 and a prominent Philadelphia fringe artist. His works have received attention due to their unique brand of site-specific theater. In addition to theater, he is regular contributor to the Philadelphia Metro

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(Philadelphia), a free city paper.

Career

His plays have been workshopped or produced by The Philadelphia Theatre Company

Philadelphia Theatre Company

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, New Dramatists, 1812 Productions, Montgomery Theatre Project, Crescendo Theatre Company, Temple Theaters, Brat Productions and Kaibutsu. While attending Temple University

Temple University

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's Theater Program, Bruce was a Bernard B. Jacobs Intern at New Dramatists in NYC and worked extensively as a Teaching Artist for The Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival. After graduating from Temple in 2001, he joined the legendary Philly Fringe company, Brat Productions, working as a Dramaturg, Playwright and Director. In 2004 he co-founded Kaibutsu, a Philadelphia based guerrilla theater group, which has enjoyed praise from NPR

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, WRTI

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, The City Paper

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, Philadelphia Weekly

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, The Philadelphia Inquirer

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 and many others for its unique brand of site-specific theater.

He has been nominated for an Independence Foundation Fellowship.

Plays

• Whiskey Neat (2009)
• Old Bill (2005)
• Northern Liberty (2005 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival)
• The Guided Tour (2004 and 2006 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival) - A curious site-specific play on a tourist trolley—was presented in the 2004 and 2006 Live Arts Festivals. "Guided Tour DUI" is a rare experiment between the creators of the show and Project P, a collective of local film enthusiasts. With the help of the P's, the cast of "Guided" perform a reading of the show with a film adaptation of the tour route projected behind them—and sometimes on them. Performed at the Mum Puppet Theatre.
• Dasein (2002 Philly Fringe Festival)
• The Wounded Body (2000 Philly Fringe Festival)
• Once (Co-written with Madi Distefano of Brat Productions, 2002)

External links

• Kaibutsu Theater Company web site.
• Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Interview - Co-creators of The Guided Tour, Bruce Walsh and Dan Scholnick talk about the 2006 production of the play.