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. It was later developed into a feature film of the same name starring Michaela Coel and released by Netflix in 2018.
As an actor, Walker has appeared on television, with credits including The Office and EastEnders. His mother is the actress Ann Mitchell. Walker lives in Camden in London.
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 PlayhouseFlesh Wound, Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London,Crazy Love, Òran Mór, Glasgow, Scotland, 2007Dance for Me, Webber Douglas, 2004A Passion for MayhemGreenskin GalInner City Magic
- Translation of Akos Nemeth's Car Thieves, Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London, 2004The Frontline, Shakespeare's Globe, London, 2008 The Lightning Child, Shakespeare's Globe, London, 2013
- Been So Long, film screenplay, 2018
Directing credits
Etta Jenks Achidi J's Final Hours Rootz Spectacula Macbeth The Glory of Living Balm in Gilead A Mouthful of Birds A Prayer for Owen Meany A Flea in Her Ear The Hot L Baltimore- ''The Time Of Our Lies''