Resident Playwright, New Dramatists, NY
MFA, playwriting, University of Texas, Austin
Walch’s plays include The Dinosaur Within, Circumference of a Squirrel, The Nature of Mutation, Jesting with Edged Tools, Craving Gravy or Love in the Time of Cannibalism, Alice Threw The Looking Glass: A Parody of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, as well as numerous one-acts, collaborations, and shorts. His plays are published through Playscripts Inc. and other works have appeared in various anthologies including: Humana Festival 2004: Complete Plays, Best Stage Scenes, and Best Men’s Stage Monologues.
The artist’s projects in development include: DoubleTime, a Broadway musical with composer Nile Rodgers; Force, an off-Broadway “moveical” with dare-devil contemporary choreographer Elizabeth Streb; and the play, Iraq: a Love Story.
His plays have been produced at theatres such as The Center Theatre (Mark Taper Forum), Actors Theatre of Louisville, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, the State Theater, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and off-Broadway at Urban Stages. The playwright’s work has been developed or commissioned through the Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, A.S.K. Theatre Projects, Shenandoah International Playwright's, The Playwrights' Center/PlayLabs, and the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London.
Walch is the winner of an award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays; the American Theatre Critics Association’s Osborn Award; the Charlotte Woolard Award from the Kennedy Center, recognizing a promising new voice in the American theatre; the Marc Klein Playwriting Award; and three Austin Critic's Table Awards. He was an Alfred P. Sloan playwriting fellow at The Manhattan Theatre Club and a James Michener Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, University of Texas, Austin. He served as artistic director of Austin Script Works and has taught at the University Texas’s Michener Center for Writers, Bennington College, Florida State University, and the Playwrights Workshop at University of Iowa.