Walter Wykes

Biography

Walter Wykes is a graduate of the MFA Playwriting program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has had over thirty plays produced across the United States and internationally. Four times he has received the American College Theatre Festival's Award for Excellence in Playwriting. The bulk of his dramatic work has an absurdist or surrealist bent, creating a dreamlike or nightmarish atmosphere that reflects the sometimes senseless nature of the world we inhabit. In his plays, he creates a series of modern myths, tapping into something in the strata of the subconscious, through ritualism and rich, poetic language. The worlds he creates are brand new, and hilarious, yet each contains an ancient horror we all know and cannot escape and have never been able to hang one definitive word on. His plays can be found in the following anthologies: Three Plays of the Absurd (Black Box Press, 2006), Ten 10-Minute Plays (Black Box Press, 2006), Best Men's Stage Monologues of 2002 (Smith & Kraus, 2002), and Best Student One-Acts - Vol. 4 (Dramatic Publishing, 1998). [Read More...]

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