Walt McGough is a Boston- and Chicago-based playwright, originally from Pittsburgh. His plays include Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird), The Farm, Paper City Phoenix, True Places and Connor, Issue One, and have been produced or developed around the country with Sideshow Theatre Company, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Orfeo Group, Nu Sass, Chicago Dramatists, Infusion Theatre Company and The Second City Chicago, among others.
He was the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s 2010 Ken Ludwig Scholarship and a writing fellowship to the 2010 O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and was a finalist for ACTF’s John Cauble Short Play and ten-minute awards.
He is a founding ensemble member of Sideshow Theatre Company, for which he serves as Literary Manager. He currently serves on the staff at SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston, and was previously the Company Manager at Chicago Dramatists. He holds a BA from the University of Virginia, and an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University.
