Walker Lewis hails from Baltimore, MD (Charm City) from a family of scientists, and enjoys writing about himself in the third person.

In television and film Walker appeared recently as a mime in a Virgin Mobile commercial, and in Dan Kinber’s The Cellist. He is also featured in two short films that debuted in Europe as part of theater productions, The Fury of Sneezing and The Philosopher’s Stone.

In New York, Walker recently performed Off-Broadway in a staged reading of Richard Schechner’s Timbuktu, which featured Paul Auster and Frank Wood. Other Off-Broadway credits include three shows at Classic Stage Company: Orgon in Tartuffe (dir. Brian Kulick), Andrey in Three Sisters, and Octave in Scapin. Walker has worked at La Mama E.T.C. as Trigorin in The Seagull and with New York Classical Theatre as King Wenceslas in King Ubu. At Columbia University, favorite productions include King Lear, Threepenny Opera, Woyceck, Leonce and Lena, and La Ronde.

Walker has also performed regionally and internationally. He was recently at the Guthrie Lab and at the Spoleto USA Festival with Meredith Monk, and will soon be performing in three Niky Wolcz productions in Italy and Germany: Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights (as Mephisto), Scapin, and The Comedy of Errors. As a singer (tenor), Walker has performed at the San Francisco Jazz Festival and in numerous new works by composers Andrew Shapiro and Rami Vamos. He is also well-versed in clowning, maskwork, and improvisation, and is one mean whistler.

Walker’s education in acting and singing began at Oberlin College and Conservatory, and continued with two years at the prestigious Lecoq School in Paris. Walker participated in the Ninth Guthrie Experience at the Guthrie Theater, and holds an MFA in Acting from Columbia University, where he worked with Kristin Linklater, Andrei Serban, Larry Singer, Niky & Ulla Wolcz, Anne Bogart, and Lisa Peterson. He speaks French, Spanish, and Hungarian with verve and panache.