Ché Walker

Ché Walker is an English actor, playwright, theatre director, and teacher. His musical Been So Long played at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Young Vic Theatre.^[1][2] It was later developed into a feature film of the same name starring Michaela Coel and released by Netflix in 2018.^[3]

As an actor, Walker has appeared on television, with credits including The Office and EastEnders.^[4] His mother is the actress Ann Mitchell.^[5] Walker lives in Camden in London.^[6][7]

Accolades

• 2003: George Devine Award
• 2003: Arts Council Young Writers Award, for Flesh Wound

List of works

Writing credits

• Been So Long, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1998; Young Vic Theatre, London, 2009
• Jack and the Beanstalk, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, London, 2009
• translation of Sophocles' Iphigenia, Southwark Playhouse
• Flesh Wound, Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London,
• Crazy Love, Òran Mór, Glasgow, Scotland, 2007
• Dance for Me, Webber Douglas, 2004
• A Passion for Mayhem
• Greenskin Gal
• Inner City Magic
• Translation of Akos Nemeth's Car Thieves, Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London, 2004
• The Frontline, Shakespeare's Globe, London, 2008 ^[8][9]
• The Lightning Child, Shakespeare's Globe, London, 2013
• Been So Long, film screenplay, 2018

Directing credits

• Etta Jenks (Finborough Theatre)
• Achidi J's Final Hours (Finborough Theatre)
• Rootz Spectacula (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry)
• Macbeth (Southwark Playhouse)
• The Glory of Living (Battersea Arts Centre)
• Balm in Gilead (RADA)
• A Mouthful of Birds (RADA)
• A Prayer for Owen Meany (Corbett Theatre)
• A Flea in Her Ear (Corbett Theatre)
• The Hot L Baltimore (Corbett Theatre)
• The Time Of Our Lies (Park Theatre)^[10]

Acting credits

• Othello (Shakespeare's Globe)
• The Pitchfork Disney (Citizens Theatre)
• Old Rose (Citizens Theatre)
• Sunshine (Southwark Playhouse)
• Biloxi Blues (Salisbury Playhouse)
• Wait Until Dark (Plymouth Theatre Royal)
• Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Interchange Studios)