Alice L Walker
Writer, Director
A Chicago native, Alice began her career as a ballet dancer, performing with Joffrey Ballet, Ballet Chicago, Ballet Austin and Ontario Ballet Theater of Canada, to name a few. She joined the Chicago theater scene studying at Piven Theater Workshop then in L.A. at Playhouse West with Robert Carnegie and with famed coaches Larry Moss, Art Wolff, Giles Foreman and Robyn Cohen. Her tv credits include ABC’s Secrets of A Small Town, Fresh Off The Boat, and The Office spinoff, The Trainer, and the upcoming series, Composers directed by Bernard Rose, as well as working in commercials for companies like Ford and Leinenkugal’s Beer. Her select film credits include Riddance opposite Jim Parrack (Best Actress award PWFF), Abruptio (coming 2021), opposite Jordan Peele and Robert Englund, A Numbers Game opposite Ken Howard and Steven Bauer and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with Doug Jones, directed by David Lee Fisher. Also a writer and producer, Alice’s original screenplay musical, Le Grand Jete was made an Official Selection of The Beverly Hills Film Festival, was a semi -finalist in the London International Screenplay Festival, and won Best Screenplay at Chicago Indie Film Festival. She’s produced music videos for Snoop Dogg, choreographed national commercials for Dairy Queen and choreographed and directed ballets like Cinderella: A Rock and Romance Ballet at El Portal Theater in LA. She directed over 25 musicals while teaching acting and dance at The Youth Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles. Her first love being theater, she has always found her home there performing in Beauty & The Beast, The Sound of Music, Shrek The Musical, A Chorus Line, Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge, and The Elephant Man at El Portal Theater for her award winning Los Angeles based theater company, Thursday Night Theater Club. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.