Bruce Walsh

Bruce Walsh

Bruce lives in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, with his wife and son. His plays have been produced around the country, winning the Heideman Award, the Gary Garrison National Ten Minute Play Award, and the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition. He currently teaches literature and creative writing at Messiah University and Elizabethtown College.

Plays

  • Grown-Ass Louis by Bruce Walsh
    Recommendations: 101
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, tragedy
    [Ten-Minute] When Louis was eleven-years-old, he wrote a note to his recently deceased father, tied it to a balloon, and released it to the heavens. But now, even though he's a grown-ass man, he can't stop wondering if his dad ever received the message.
  • Brambles by Bruce Walsh
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: end of life, elderly + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: end of life, elderly, dementia
    [Ten-Minute] Mr. Stevens longs to reconcile with his son. But he has precious little time left to live, and his son never stops by without a lawyer in tow. Perhaps the starlings pecking at the soft soil will prove more generous company.
  • Essential Reading for This Moment in History by Bruce Walsh
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, drama
    Genre: comedy, drama
    [Full-Length] Eddie, an overworked adjunct professor/barista, mentors young working-class men, teaching them to rationally untangle the riddles of their ingrained misogyny. But, as a Tiresias-like aging colleague points out, he is woefully blind to the chaos of sadness and disappointment at the root of his students’ lives – and his own. When Eddie’s newborn son refuses to sleep, his dreams and waking life begin...
    [Full-Length] Eddie, an overworked adjunct professor/barista, mentors young working-class men, teaching them to rationally untangle the riddles of their ingrained misogyny. But, as a Tiresias-like aging colleague points out, he is woefully blind to the chaos of sadness and disappointment at the root of his students’ lives – and his own. When Eddie’s newborn son refuses to sleep, his dreams and waking life begin to blur, and his repressed grievances become grand literary ambitions.
  • Prospect Hill by Bruce Walsh
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: addiction, Crisis of Faith + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, faith-based, tragedy
    Keyword: addiction, Crisis of Faith, class conflict
    [Full-Length] In a Midwest college town, Jacob runs an in-home, sliding-scale counseling practice, partly underwritten by Rex, his well-to-do husband. But when Rex sets his savior complex on Ethan, Jacob’s drug-addicted client, their relationship fractures — then suddenly flourishes — as all three men wrestle their addictions, grievances, false idols, and yearnings for a higher power.
  • Berserker by Bruce Walsh
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: Peer Gynt, George Saunders + 2 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, romantic comedy, satire, tragedy
    Keyword: Peer Gynt, George Saunders, gaming, tech industry
    [Full-Length] When an idealistic teacher falls in love with a voice emanating from a security camera mounted deep in the wilderness, he leaves his partner, child, and students in pursuit of his new obsession. But in order to get closer to his muse, he must embark on a new career in her workplace – a tech company specializing in virtual “NatureScapes.” There he discovers the true face of his passions, not in the...
    [Full-Length] When an idealistic teacher falls in love with a voice emanating from a security camera mounted deep in the wilderness, he leaves his partner, child, and students in pursuit of his new obsession. But in order to get closer to his muse, he must embark on a new career in her workplace – a tech company specializing in virtual “NatureScapes.” There he discovers the true face of his passions, not in the beautiful woman he imagines, but in what he fears might be lurking in the forest surrounding his office.