Bruce Walsh teaches dramatic writing for the PlayPenn Education Program and the Philadelphia Dramatists Center. He received his MFA in Playwriting from Indiana University in 2017. Before attending IU, he worked extensively as an arts journalist in Philadelphia, where he also wrote plays and devised site-specific theater. Actors Theatre of Louisville recently named him the 2017 Heideman Award winner for his play, GROWN-ASS LOUIS. Full-length plays for the stage include BERSERKER (Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights’ Workshop), PROSPECT HILL (IU Theatre), and WHISKY NEAT (Azuka Theatre). His site-specific works include HOLLY'S DEAD SOLDIERS, co-written with Douglas Williams and Chris Davis (FringeArts), CHOMSKY VS. BUCKLEY, 1969 (Philly Fringe), and THE GUIDED TOUR (Philadelphia Live Arts Festival). Other recent honors include The Gary Garrison National Ten Minute Play Award, The BETC Generations Residency (finalist), and the Seven Devils Playwrights’ Conference (finalist). His site-specific works have received numerous Phindie.com Best of the Fringe Awards, and a City Paper Barryless Award for political theater. He is a proud alumnus of The Foundry, a Philadelphia Emerging Playwrights Lab.