I am a theater director, choreographer, and historian of queer, feminist, and transgender cultural production. My research focuses on performance, literature, and cinema engaging the politics of queer aging in relation to public health reforms since the mid-1990’s. I am currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area where I am completing a PhD in Theater and Performance Studies with minors in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.

My article, “Lulu ‘Works the Trapeze’: Producing the Modern, Western Sex/Gender System in Nineteenth-Century Aerial Arts,” published in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (PDF) received the 2024 Gerald Kahan Scholar’s Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) “for the best essay written and published in English in a refereed scholarly journal or edited collection by a newer scholar.” I have also written about the work of Taiwan-based filmmaker and theater artist Tsai Ming-liang in an article titled “Flowers, Concrete, Ware: Care and Precarity in Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006),” published in New Review of Film and Television Studies, which received the 2024 Chris Holmlund Prize by the Queer and Trans Caucus of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Additionally, my essay “Cats at the Edges of Life” on historicizing Cats the musical through the HIV/AIDS crisis received The Oxford University Press Prize from the International Society for the Study of Musicals (ISSM) and is forthcoming in the journal Studies in Musical Theatre.

I am a frequent collaborator as movement director and 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. Recent directing includes: 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; developmental labs of Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel’s Lupe Finds Me in the Garden of Dreams at Dartmouth University with New York Theatre Workshop and with the Breaking the Binary Festival in NYC; and a developmental, educational production of L M Feldman’s Limber, a Love Story with Emerson College. Recent choreography includes: the West Coast Premiere of Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Last of the Love Letters with Crowded Fire Theater in SF, and multiple productions of Paula Vogel’s Indecent with Chautauqua Theater in NY and Profile Theater/Artists Repertory Theater in Portland, OR.

Director & Choreographer & Cultural Historian

Contact

Direct: adinwalker@gmail.com

Manager for Directing and Choreographing: Victoria Morris of Lexikat Artists, vtmorris1111@gmail.com