Chet Walker

Chet Walker has performed on Broadway since the age of 16, appearing in the revival of "On the Town". His other Broadway credits include "Lorelei", "The Ambassadors" and four Bob Fosse musicals: "The Pajama Game", "Pippin", "Dancin'" and "Sweet Charity". As director/choreographer, his professional stage credits include "Dory! A Musical Portrait" at the Will Geer Theater in Los Angeles, the 10th Anniversary tour of "La Cage aux Folles", "Sweet Charity" in the United States, Holland, Japan, Mexico, Norway and London's West End. Other productions include "Chicago", "42nd Street", "A Chorus Line", "Follies", "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", "Working" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman". For television, he assisted on the NBC special, "Loretta Lynne Country in the Big Apple", and was a contributing choreographer on "Just Dance" for Japan's CTV. Mr. Walker originally conceived the 1999 Tony-Award-winning musical "Fosse", which also garnered an Outer Critics' Circle Award and the Toronto Theater Alliance Award for Choreography. Other award nominations for "Fosse" include the L.A. Critics' Award and the Outer Critics' Circle Award, both for choreography and the Laurence Olivier Award for Conceiver of Best Musical. Mr. Walker's other awards include the L.A. Dramalogue Award for Choreography for "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas", Sweden's equivalent of the Tony Award for Choreography for "Annie Get Your Gun", and Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award for his co-choreography of "Pal Joey" at the Goodman Theatre. He is currently working on a new musical tentatively entitled "Valentino". He is the Director/Choreographer and Artistic Director of 8&ah1 Productions Inc., a nonprofit Musical Theatre Dance Company. 8&ah1 premiered an original Dance/Opera entitled "Seduction in New York" and, this year, performed at the Doris Duke Theater/Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in "Confessions of Love". With Robert LaFosse, he co-choreographed the world premiere of "The Seven Deadly Sins" at Jacob's Pillow; the production starred La Fosse, 'Helène Alexopoulos' and Desmond Richardson, to name a few. For the past three years, he has been the director of the Jazz Workshop at Jacob's Pillow. This year finds him traveling to Greece, Norway, Argentina and England to award scholarships to The School at Jacob's Pillow.