"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. Adin 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 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 cinema. Forthcoming publications include “Lulu ‘Works the Trapeze’: Producing the Modern, Western Sex/Gender System in Nineteenth-Century Aerial Arts,” for the anniversary issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly; and, “Flowers, Concrete, Water: Care and Precarity in Tsai Ming-liang’s: I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006)” which was awarded the 2023 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies’s Queer and Trans Caucus and will be published in the Summer 2024 issue of New Review of Film and Television Studies. Walker is a Stanford R.A.I.S.E. Fellow for community-engaged research and serves as incoming managing editor for Occasion: An Interdisciplinary Journal in the Humanities published by the Stanford Humanities Center under the editorial leadership of Héctor Hoyos. B.A. English from Princeton University.
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
IMAGES FROM THE STUDIO
Follow Adin on Instagram at @adinsidneywalker
