Multi-Award Winning
Director/Choreographer CHET WALKER has
garnered acclaim onstage in theaters
across the globe, in television, film,
music video and all commercial media.
Perhaps
best known as Creator and
Co-Choreographer of the Tony - and -
multi-international-award-winning
FOSSE,
Chet has directed and choreographed
original new musicals with unwavering
success, as well as having mounted
extraordinary recreations of classic
musical productions in close
collaboration with shows’ original
creators. His original works range from
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL,
to original dance pieces created for
Compania Internacional de
Teatro Musical,
the international Jazz/Musical Theater
Dance Company which he co-artistic
directs in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to
JACOBS PILLOW
where he serves as Director of the
Jazz/Musical Theater Program.
Chet
Walker began performing on Broadway at
the age of sixteen when he appeared in
the first revival of ON THE
TOWN.
Other Broadway credits include:
LORELEI, THE AMBASSADORS,
and
four Bob Fosse musicals:
THE PAJAMA GAME, PIPPIN, DANCIN'
and SWEET CHARITY.
As
director/choreographer, Chet’s extensive
professional stage credits include
SWEET CHARITY
in the
United States, Holland, Japan, Mexico,
Norway and London’s West End, the tenth
anniversary tour of LA CAGE
AUX FOLLES,
and
DORY! A MUSICAL PORTRAIT
at
the Will Geer Theater in Los Angeles.
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
COUNTY IN THE BIG APPLE,
and is a contributing choreographer on
JUST DANCE
for Japan’s CTV. His work has been seen
on THE ROSIE O’DONNELL
SHOW, SHOWTIME,
and several international television
networks. His work is also familiar to
fans of video and has been seen in
several television commercials.
Chet
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. Chet is
also recipient of the L.A.
Dramalogue Award
for Best Choreography for
THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS
; Sweden’s equivalent of the Tony Award
for Best Choreography for
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN;
and Chicago’s Joseph
Jefferson Award
for his co-choreography of
PAL JOEY
at the
Goodman Theatre. This year, Chet was
honored with Israel’s equivalent of the
Tony Award
for his
Choreography of THE
PRODUCERS.
Chet is
currently at work on two new musicals
entitled THE REEL:
VALENTINO
and AIN'T THAT A KICK IN
THE HEAD: The Songs of Sammy Cahn. Recently,
Chet directed and choreographed two
world premieres in Buenos Aires:
HEAT! A Dance Opera,
and NIGHT CHASE
performed by Julio Bocca and Ballet
Argentina. Most recently he has added
to his credits SINGING IN
THE RAIN
in
Madrid, THE PRODUCERS
in
Argentina and Brazil for which he was
nominated for an ACE Award
for Best Choreography, and
The Dancing Man
in
Norway and SEVEN BRIDES FOR
SEVEN BROTHERS
here in the states. He completes the
year with a new production of
CABARET
in Serbia
Chet Walker
is Artistic Director of Walker Dance , a
nonprofit Musical Theatre Dance Company.
In recent years, Walker Dance has
premiered the original Dance Opera,
SEDUCTION, Off Broadway, and has
performed CONFESSIONS OF LOVE in the
Doris Duke Theater at the Jacobs Pillow
Dance Festival, where at the Ted Shawn
Theater, Chet choreographed ANGER, part
of THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, collaborating
with other esteemed choreographic
celebrities of the dance world: Robert
La Fosse, Richard Move, Annie-B Parson,
Lawrence Goldhuber, David Dorfman, and
Jamie Bishton. Walker Dance
has a new piece about the Marathon
Dances of the twenties which is expected
to premiere at the Joyce Theatre in the
2008 – 2009 Season.
