Craig Walker
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Craig Stewart Walker (born September 25, 1960) is a Canadian writer, theatre director, actor and educator.
Walker began his career in the theatre as an actor with the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival and the National Arts Centre of Canada and other companies. After returning to complete an M.A. in English and a Ph.D. in Drama at the University of Toronto, he was appointed to the Department of Drama at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where he is currently Professor of Drama.
In 1997, Walker became the Artistic Director of Theatre Kingston, a company for which he has directed many productions including his own Finnegans Wake: a dream play (based on the novel by James Joyce), which played in both Kingston and Toronto in 2001, and Aeschylus’s The Oresteia, which was performed with Proteus, a satyr play Walker wrote himself to replace the one that had originally followed the trilogy but had been lost since the 5th century B.C.E. In 2002, Walker wrote the book, music and lyrics for Chantecler: a musical (based loosely on a verse play by Edmond Rostand).
[edit] Works by Walker
- The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
- Finnegans Wake: a dream play (based on the novel by James Joyce). Produced by Theatre Kingston in 2001.
- Chantecler: a musical (book, music and lyrics; based on the play by Edmond Rostand). Produced by Theatre Kingston in 2002.
- Editor, with Jennifer Wise, The Broadview Anthology of Drama, Volumes One and Two. Broadview Press, 2003.
- Editor, with Jennifer Wise, The Concise Broadview Anthology of Drama. Broadview Press, 2005.
