T. J. Walsh
Artistic Director

T. J. Walsh (Artistic Director) has directed productions in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York as well as Texas. His Trinity Shakespeare production last year of Twelfth Night was awarded the Dallas/Fort Worth Theatre Critics Forum award for Outstanding Direction.  He has also received the award for Outstanding Direction from the Critics Forum for his production of John Patrick Shanley’s Defiance and Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses both at Dallas’ Theatre Three. He recently performed his solo play Pleading Infinity at the New York International Fringe Festival. He is an Associate Professor of Theatre at TCU and earned 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 area of research is in the history and theory of authorship. He has been married to his wife Kristine for twenty-five years, and they have four children.

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