Biography of John Walch

John Walch 's play THE DINOSAUR WITHIN was winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American plays and premiered at Austin's State Theater. CIRCUMFERENCE OF A SQUIRREL premiered at Austin's Zachary Scott Theater Center and was subsequently produced by the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, opened off-Broadway at Urban Stages, and was recently revived at New Jersey Rep. John's plays have been developed through the Public Theater New Works Now Festival, the National Playwrights' Retreat sponsored by A.S.K. Theatre Projects, the Shenandoah International Playwright's Retreat, the Playwright's Center of Minneapolis, the State Theater's Harvest Festival of New American Plays, the WordBRIDGE Playwright's Lab, Play Works, and the New Work Festival at the Mark Taper Forum. In addition, several of Jon's monologues can be found in the Monologues for Men series published by Heinemann. He received the Marc Klein Playwriting Award for JESTING WITH EDGED TOOLS; three Austin Critic's Table Awards for .Best Original Script. for CRAVING GRAVY, CIRCUMFERENCE OF A SQUIRREL, and THE DINOSAUR WITHIN; the James Michener Fellowship from the Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas; the 2003 Osborn Award recognizing an emerging American playwright from the American Theatre Critics Association; and the Charlotte Woolard Award from the Kennedy Center recognizing a promising voice in the American theatre. John is an Alfred P. Sloan playwriting fellow with Manhattan Theatre Club.