TCU DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE
FACULTY MEMBER

T. J. WALSH

Assistant Professor
B.A. – San Diego State University
M.F.A. – University of Texas-Austin
Ph.D. – University of Texas-Austin
Dramatists Guild (Associate)

Thomas J. Walsh earned a Master of Fine Arts in Play writing and a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Texas at Austin where he studied with Oscar Brockett, John Brokaw, Charlotte Canning and Webster Smalley. Dr. Walsh's research concentration is in the history and theory of authorship. His work has been published in the New England Theatre Journal, The Dramatist: The Journal of the Dramatists Guild; Feedback, The Journal of the Broadcast Theatre Association; Theatre Insight, Texas Theatre Journal and Theatre Southwest. He recently contributed a chapter to the anthology: Art, Glitter and Glitz, The American Theatre of the 1920s published by Greenwood Press. He has served as Managing Editor and Book Editor for Theatre Insight. His work as a playwright and director has been recognized for excellence by the Texas Educational Theatre Association (TETA); the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE); the Southwest Theatre Association (SWTA) and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). He has been nominated for the “Most Inspiring Professor” Award by the TCU Panhellenic Council.

Dr. Walsh’s work was recently honored with a Best Director award by the Dallas/Fort Worth Theatre Critics Forum for his production of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses at Dallas’ Theatre Three, a professional Equity theatre. He has also directed Richard Dresser’s Rounding Third at Theatre Three and William Nicholson’s The Retreat from Moscow at Fort Worth’s Circle Theatre. As a playwright his play The Thomas Paine Panther was published in 2005 by Play scripts, Inc. At TCU, Dr. Walsh has directed Ah, Wilderness!, 12 Angry Men and 12 Angry Women, On the Town, Melrose Stories, The Glass Menagerie, Book of Days and Misalliance. At TCU he has taught Theatre History, Survey of Theatre Arts, Survey of Musical Theatre, Play writing, Acting and Directing. He has been married to his wife Kristine for over twenty years, and they have four children.

E-Mail Thomas J. Walsh