Chelsea Walker

Director

Biography

Chelsea is an award-winning director, working in theatre and on screen. In 2017 she won the RTST Sir Peter Hall Award and toured her critically acclaimed production of A Streetcar Named Desire around the UK. She has twice been a finalist for the JMK Directors Award, winning the runner up prize in 2016; has twice been nominated for an Off West End Best Director Award; and twice nominated for a UK Theatre Award. In 2016 she was a director on the Old Vic 12. She is a reader for the Bruntwood Award and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Chelsea has just finished post-production on her short film LATCH. Her first short film GOBBLE written by Anoushka Warden premiered at Funny Life Film Festival and will be screened at British Shorts Film Festival in Berlin. 

This year she will direct new productions of R.O.I (Return on Investment) by Aaron Loeb at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs and Much Ado about Nothing for the Globe Theatre.

Credits

Theatre

Production Company Notes
THE DA VINCI CODE
2025
Wiltshire Collective, Mercury Theatre

Adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel, based on the novel by Dan Brown

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
2024
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
VISIT FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
2024
Hampstead Theatre

By Christopher Hampton, after Kweig

THIS MUCH I KNOW
2023
Hampstead Theatre

By Jonathan Spector

ON THE BEACH
2023
Sheffield Crucible Theatre

By Steve Waters

MISSING JULIE
2021
Theatre Clwyd

By Katie O’Reilly, after Strindberg

HEDDA GABLER
2020
Sherman Theatre

By Brian Friel, after Ibsen

COUGAR
2019
Orange Tree Theatre

By Rose Lewenstein

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
2018

UK TOUR

YOUS TWO
2018
Hampstead Theatre

By Georgia Christou

LOW LEVEL PANIC
2017
Orange Tree Theatre

By Clare McIntyre

P'YONGYANG
2016
Finborough Theatre

By In-Sook Chappell

KLIPPIES
2015
Southwark Playhouse

By Jess Sian

CHICKEN DUST
2015
Finborough Theatre

By Ben Weatherill

LEAN
2013
Tristan Bates Theatre

By Isley Lynn

Chelsea Walker
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