"the basic irreducible fact of theater is:
we're together in this place,
what are we gonna make of it?"
–tim vasen (1964 - 2015)
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Adin Walker is a frequent collaborator as movement director + associate director with the internationally-touring dance, puppetry, and climate-justice focused Phantom Limb Company, whose production Falling Out about the 2011 tsunami and radiation disaster in Fukushima premiered in BAM’s Next Wave Festival and was featured on the cover of American Theatre’s March 2020 issue on theater and climate change. Walker recently directed the world premieres of Yilong Liu’s PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute with the New Conservatory Theater Center and Adam Ashraf Elsayigh’s Data Queen for Golden Thread’s ReOrient Festival, both in San Francisco. In Summer 2024, Walker will direct a workshop production of a new musical titled Wild Fire at San Francisco’s Z Space.
Walker is currently in residence at Stanford University as a PhD candidate in Theater and Performance Studies with minors in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Walker’s research, writing, and teaching center contemporary queer and trans performance and media. Peer-reviewed journal publications include:
—TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. “Lulu ‘Works the Trapeze‘: Producing the Modern, Western Sex/Gender System in Nineteenth-Century Aerial Arts.” 10-Year Anniversary Issue. ed. Francisco J. Galarte, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Abraham Weil. Duke UP. (November 2023).
—Theatre Topics. “Shaping Life, Shaping Work: Julio Torres’s Queer Comic Labor.” Special Issue: “Comedy and Embodiment.” ed. Katelyn Hale Wood, Matthew McMahan, Grace Overbeke, and Maria de Simone. Johns Hopkins UP. (Forthcoming Summer 2024).
— New Review of Film and Television Studies. “Flowers, Concrete, Water: Care and Precarity in Tsai Ming-liang’s: I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006).” ed. Matt Connolly. Taylor & Francis. (Forthcoming Summer 2024). [*Awarded the 2023 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize by the Queer and Trans Caucus of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)]
At Stanford, Walker is a R.A.I.S.E. fellow for community-engaged research and has co-taught two courses: “Introduction to Queer Theory” (with Namrata Verghese); and, a Summer Arts Intensive on circus history and practice (with Aleta Hayes). Walker is an active member of Stanford’s Hume Center for Writing and Speaking and holds various positions there including: writing tutor (2021 – 2024), graduate writing tutor coordinator (2022-2024), member of the teaching team for the yearly seminar on writing tutor pedagogy (2023 -2024).
As a theater director and choreographer, Walker is a frequent collaborator with the internationally-touring dance, puppetry, and climate-justice focused Phantom Limb Company, whose production Falling Out about the 2011 tsunami and radiation disaster in Fukushima premiered in BAM’s Next Wave Festival. Walker recently directed the world premieres of Yilong Liu’s PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute with the New Conservatory Theater Center and Adam Ashraf Elsayigh’s Data Queen for Golden Thread’s ReOrient Festival, both in San Francisco. In Summer 2024, Walker will direct a workshop production of a new musical titled Wild Fire at San Francisco’s Z Space. adinwalker.com
During early Covid times, Adin curated the blog SideLight, which included a collaboration with 3Views on Theater.
Select Ongoing Projects in Development:
When the Party’s Over by Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel
Data Queen by Adam Ashraf Elsayigh
The PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute by Yilong Liu
Movement Director and Associate Director of 69˚S. (The Shackleton Project) by Phantom Limb Company
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Follow Adin on Instagram at @adinsidneywalker
