He trained at the Drama Centre as an actor, before turning to writing plays.
His first full-length play Land of Our Fathers, set in a Welsh coalmine on the eve of the 1979 general election, received wide critical acclaim when it opened at Theatre503 in London in 2013.
[1][2] The play then transferred to the Trafalgar Theatre in the West End, before launching on a national tour.
Urch's next major play, The Rolling Stone, deals with the topic of violent homophobia in Uganda.
[citation needed] The play opened at the off-broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in New York City in 2019.