Named 2002 Playwriting Teacher of the Year by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Rush is a Resident Writer Emeritus of the Chicago Dramatists and an ensemble member at the Stage Left Theater in Chicago. He has written over twenty plays and musicals, including the productions "Cuttings "(2003), "Prairie Lights" (2002), and" Police Deaf Near Far" (2000), "Dapples & Grays "(1994), and "Leander Stillwell" (1992). See less