Anna Takayo Walden

Director Writer Performer

My name is Anna Takayo Walden. I am an East Asian multi-hyphenate theatre artist originally from Honolulu Hawaii.

Credits

Assistant Director, Much Ado About Nothing, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
Assistant Director, Necessary Targets, Southwark Playhouse
Assistant Director, Joan's Choice, Vilnius Lithuania

Anne Hathaway u/s, Jane Anger, The Shakespeare Theatre Company (Jess Chayes)
Melissa, Necessary Targets, Southwark Playhouse (Gemma Brockis/Devised)
Mrs. Soames u/s, Our Town, The Shakespeare Theatre Company (Alan Paul)
Ophelia, Hamlet, Tower Theatre (Gavin Mcallinden)
Agrippa, Antony and Cleopatra, Theatro Technis, London (Gavin Mcallinden)
Yoshie, Cherry Blossom/Cherry Bomb, TPAM Fringe, Yokohama, Japan (Self/Devised)
Ray, Pearl City ‘Sunshine', Tristan Bates Theatre (Pants on Fire Theatre Company)
Trevor, Ha Ha Hawaii, Hawaii Public Theatre, Kennedy Lab Theatre (Aitor Busari)
Catherine, Wuthering Heights, Inspector Sands (China Plate Reading)
Eurydice, Orphée, Bloomsbury Festival (The Undertow Collective/Devised)
Dionysus, The Bacchae, International Drama Festival, Messini, Greece (Gareth Watkins)

Training

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art MA Theatre Lab, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting MFA, Stanford University BA Creative Writing

Maria Dizzia, Mike Alfreds, Patsy Rodenburg, Jack Doulin, Phillipe Gaulier, Olympia Dukakis, Christopher Bayes, Jim Calder, Nicole Brewer

Location

London

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Comedy
  • Crafts
  • Fashion
  • Film - feature
  • Film - short
  • Literature
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • New technologies / digital
  • Photography
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - drama
  • Visual arts

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Outdoor performance
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Puppetry
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Street Theatre
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled artists
  • Working with young people
  • Working with young people with special educational needs
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Beginning Japanese, Intermediate French

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