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Chet Walker
Mr. Walker is the Director/Choreographer and Artistic Director of 8&ah1 Productions Inc., a nonprofit Musical Theatre Dance Company. 8&ah1 premiered an original Dance/Opera entitled Seduction in New York, and this year, performed at the Doris Duke Theater/Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Confessions of Love. With Robert La Fosse, he co-choreographed the world premiere of The Seven Deadly Sins at Jacob's Pillow; the production starred La Fosse, Helène Alexopoulos, and Desmond Richardson to name a few. For the past three years he has been the director of the Jazz Workshop at Jacob's Pillow. This year finds him traveling to Greece, Norway, Argentina and England to award scholarships to The School at Jacob's Pillow. |
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Chet
Walker has performed on Broadway since the age of sixteen when he
appeared in the revival of On the Town. His other Broadway credits
include: Lorelei, The Ambassadors, and the four Bob Fosse musicals
The Pajama Game, Pippin, Dancin' and Sweet Charity. As director/choreographer,
his professional stage credits include Dory! A Musical Portrait
at the Will Geer Theater in Los Angeles, the tenth anniversary tour
of La Cage aux Folles, Sweet Charity in the United States, Holland,
Japan, Mexico, Norway and London's West End. Other productions include
Chicago, 42nd Street, A Chorus Line, Follies, A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Forum, Working, and Kiss of the Spider Woman.
For television, Mr. Walker assisted on the NBC special Loretta Lynne
Country in the Big Apple, and is a contributing choreographer on
Just Dance for Japan's CTV. Mr. Walker originally conceived the
1999 Tony-Award-winning musical Fosse which also garnered an Outer
Critics' Circle Award and the Toronto Theater Alliance Award for
Choreography. Other award nominations for Fosse include the L.A.
Critics' Award and the Outer Critics' Circle Award, both for choreography
and the Olivier Award for Conceiver of Best Musical. Mr. Walker's
other awards include the L.A. Dramalogue Award for Choreography
for Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Sweden's equivalent of the
Tony Award for Choreography for Annie Get Your Gun, and Chicago's
Joseph Jefferson Award for his co-choreography of Pal Joey at the
Goodman Theatre. Mr. Walker is currently working on a new musical
tentatively entitled Valentino.