Ché Walker

Ché Walker is an English actor, playwright, theatre director and teacher at the Identity Drama School. Walker lives in Camden in London His musical Been So Long played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Young Vic. His mother is the actress Ann Mitchell.

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

His writing credits include

• 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, Glasgow: Oran Mor, 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, Globe, London, 2008
• The Lightning Child, Globe, London, 2013

His credits as a director include

• 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)

As an actor, he has appeared in

• 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)

He has also appeared on television, credits including The Office and EastEnders.