Scholarship and Biography

With over 40 years of experience working in theater, film and television, Robert Walsh combines his work as an actor, director, producer and teacher to draw the best out of students and to help them position themselves for a career in the industry.

Honors

Broadway World Award (nominated) Best Actor - Next Fall
Broadway World, 2011
Broadway World Award (nominated) Best Actor: Troilus & Cressida
Broadway World, 2012
IRNE Awards nomination Best Direction (North Shore Fish)
Independent Reviewers of New England, 2013-2014
Best Supporting Actor (Henry VIII) - My Theatre Awards
My Entertainment World, 2013-2014
'Best Actor' IRNE Award nomination
Independent Reviewers of New England, 2015
Top Ten Best Plays - Boston Globe for The New Electric Ballroom
The Boston Globe, 2015
Top Ten Plays - BU Artery: The New Electric Ballroom & Gloucester Blue
WBUR (NPR Station), 2015
Norton Award - 'Best Ensemble' The New Electric Ballroom (director)
Boston Theater Critics Association, 2016
IRNE Award 7 nominations and winner of Best Play for mid-size theaters for Dancing At Lughnasa (Producer)
Independent Reviewers of New England, 2019
IRNE Awards Nominations: Gloucester Stage Company receiving 8 in total (Artistic Director)
Independent Reviewers of New England, 2019
Norton Awards - 2 nominations: Ken Baltin won for Best Actor in My Station In Life (Director)
Boston Theater Critics Association, 2019

Organizational Affiliations

Associate Professor of the Practice of Theater Arts, Department of Theater Arts, Brandeis University

Actor, Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

Actor, Actors' Equity Association

Director, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society

Certified Teacher, Society of American Fight Directors

Founding Member, Actors' Shakespeare Project

Education

Purdue University-Main Campus
M.F.A.
Ohio University-Main Campus
B.G.S.