"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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A comprehensive CV is available here.
DIRECTING + CHOREOGRAPHY 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. Walker was recently in residence at Dartmouth University with New York Theatre Workshop directing a lab of Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel’s Lupe Finds Me in the Garden of Dreams, which was also presented as part of the 2024 Breaking the Binary Festival in NYC.
PERFORMANCE STUDIES Walker is an ABD PhD Candidate in Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University with minors in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Walker works on queer, feminist, and transgender performance and media and has published peer-reviewed articles in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Theatre Topics, and New Review of Film and Television Studies. Walker’s writing received the Chris Holmlund Prize by the Queer and Trans Caucus of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), The Oxford University Press Prize from the International Society for the Study of Musicals (ISSM), Honorable Mention for Outstanding Article from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and the Gerald Kahan’s Scholar’s Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR).
During early Covid times, Walker curated the blog SideLight, which included a collaboration with 3Views on Theater.
Select Ongoing Projects in Development:
Lupe Finds Me in the Garden of Dreams by Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel
2024 Lab with Breaking the Binary Festival in NYC
2024 Lab with New York Theatre Workshop and Dartmouth’s Hopkins Center for the Arts
Limber: A Love Story by L M Feldman
2025 Developmental Production with Emerson’s College’s Emerson Stage in Feb/March
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
IMAGES FROM THE STUDIO
Follow Adin on Instagram at @adinsidneywalker
