I am a theater director, choreographer, and cultural historian of queer performance, specializing in popular entertainment such as musical theater and circus. I am currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area and recently received my PhD in Theater and Performance Studies from Stanford University.

DIRECTING AND CHOREOGRAPHY. Prior to moving to SF, I was movement director + associate director for the internationally-touring dance, puppetry, and climate-justice focused Phantom Limb Company. The company’s works include Falling Out about the 2011 tsunami and radiation disaster in Fukushima, which premiered in the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s (BAM) Next Wave Festival. I’ve directed and/or choreographed in the Bay Area with Center REP, Crowded Fire, Golden Thread, New Conservatory, and regionally with Profile Theater (OR), Artists Repertory Theater (OR), and Chautauqua Theater (NY), among others. I’ve been a guest artist at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Emerson College, Yale School of Drama, Princeton, and have developed new work with New York Theatre Workshop, National Queer Theatre, and Breaking the Binary Theatre.

PUBLICATIONS. My peer-reviewed publications can be found in Theatre Journal (forthcoming), Studies in Musical Theatre, TDR: The Drama Review, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Theatre Topics, and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, My article, “Lulu ‘Works the Trapeze’: Producing the Modern, Western Sex/Gender System in Nineteenth-Century Aerial Arts,” received the 2024 Gerald Kahan Scholar’s “Best Essay” Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). I have also received recognition for my publications from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the International Society for the Study of Musicals (ISSM) for my publications on

UPCOMING:

Choreographing Diablo Cody’s Jagged Little Pill (adapted from the music of Alanis Morissette), dir. Matt Morrow, CenterREP, SF Bay Area, June 6-28. (info here)

Directing and Choreographing the West Coast premiere of Benjamin Benne’s Manning, Crowded Fire Theater, SF Bay Area, Sep 5 - 26 (info here)

RECENT:

Choreographing Jen Silverman’s Witch, dir. Josh Hecht, Profile Theater in Portland, OR, at Portland Center Stage, Oct 16-Nov 2. (info here)

Directing and Choreographing Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron’s musical Fun Home (adapted from the graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel), Stanford University Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Nov 13-15. (info here)

Director & Choreographer & Cultural Historian

Contact

Direct: adinwalker@gmail.com

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