Recent work includes: PALE SISTER by Colm Toibin at the Gate Theatre (Dublin), Ibsen’s GHOSTS with Uma Thurman at Williamstown (transferring to Seattle Rep next spring), MERCHANT OF VENICE with Seana McKenna as Shylock (Calgary) and PRIVATE LIVES at the Stratford Festival. DIRECTORĪfter 26 successful seasons as Artistic Director of American Conservatory Theater, Carey Perloff has resumed her award-winning directing and playwriting career across the country. Walsh serves on the Board of Directors of the Ibsen Society of America and on the Advisory Board of The Mercurian, a theatrical translation review. From 2006 to 2012, Walsh served as Artistic Director of the New Harmony Project, a new play development residency program dedicated to serving writers who celebrate hope and the resiliency of the human spirit. His translation of Ibsen’s The Master Builder was produced to critical and popular acclaim in 2005 by the Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley, and in a revised version at Yale Repertory Theatre (2009) and People’s Light and Theater (2011). For nine years (1996-2005), Walsh was resident Dramaturg and Director of Humanities at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where he collaborated on dozens of productions, including his own translations of August Strindberg’s Creditors (1992), and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (2004) and Hedda Gabler (2007). Paul Walsh is Professor of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the Yale School of Drama.

His major works include Ghosts, A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, The Wild Duck, Peer Gynt, Brand, Emperor and Galilean, When We Dead Awaken, An Enemy of the People, and Rosmersholm. Henrik Ibsen (1828 – 1906) born in Norway, is often considered a founder of modernism in theatre and deemed the “father of realism.” Ibsen is one of the most influential playwrights of his time and his works remain relevant today.

Featuring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantoni and Albert RubioĪn excerpt from the 1881 Danish Classic, Oswald reveals an important secret to his mother about his recent prognosis.

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