Sunday, July 29 at 2pm
FAREWELL, by John Walch
Directed by Richard Washer
Dramaturgs: Mary Amato/ Boomie Pedersen
Technical Director: J. Taylor
CAST:
Gary West Chris Stezin
Madison Steven Williams
Noelle Susan Burke
Leila Daria Okugawa
Nadine Boomie Pedersen
John Walch, Brooklyn, NY
John Walch is the recipient of many awards for his plays, including a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award for The Dinosaur Within and the Marc Klein Playwriting Award for Jesting with Edged Tools. He was also awarded the James Michener Fellowship from the Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas (where he earned his MFA in Playwriting; the 2003 Osborn Award from the American Theatre Critics Association, recognizing an emerging American playwright; and the Charlotte Woolard Award from the Kennedy Center, recognizing a promising new voice in the American theatre. He served as artistic director of Austin Script Works and has taught playwriting at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Iowa.