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PAUL WALSH is assoicate professor of dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at the Yale School of Drama and 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.

For nine years (1996-2005), Walsh was resident dramaturg and director of humanities at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where he collaborated on dozens of productions including his own translations of August Strindberg’s CREDITORS (1992) and Henrik Ibsen’s A DOLL'S HOUSE (2004). His translation of Ibsen’s THE MASTER BUILDER was produced to critical and popular acclaim in February 2005 by the Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley and in a revised version at Yale Rep in 2009. His translation of Ibsen’s HEDDA GABLER was produced at A.C.T. in February 2007. Walsh is presently translating Strindberg's BLACK GLOVE for San Francisco's Cutting Ball Theater. His translations of Strindberg's GHOST SONATA, BURNED HOUSE, STORM and PELICAN have been read as part of Cutting Ball's Hidden Classics series. Cutting Ball plans to produce Strindberg's 5 Chamber Plays in rep in 2012 as part of the celebrations commemorating the 100th anniversary of Strindberg's death.

Besides his work at The New Harmony Project, Walsh has worked at such other important new play development venues as the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. He has also worked as dramaturg, translator, and co-author with theatre 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.

Walsh is proud to serve on the Board of Directors of the Ibsen Society of America. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama at the University of Toronto.