brynn asha walker (she/they)

brynn asha walker is a light-skinned, biracial, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, trans and nonbinary woman, actor, director, designer, writer, scholar, maker, facilitator, as well as an avid learner and educator. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Creative Director of The Seeing Place, where she facilitates weekly, community building workshops and performance labs that drive towards participatory action and art within a non-hierarchical, anti-oppressive space.

Her current projects incorporate participatory methods of Forum Theatre, Process Drama, and Playbuilding to problematize social issues and imagine new possibilities with collaborators of all ages and levels of ability. She also teaches performance for Playwrights Horizons Theater School, acting for The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, and Theatre Production for CUNY Hunter College. Member of Actors Equity Association, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and The National Alliance of Acting Teachers. MA in Applied Theatre from CUNY School of Professional Studies, MFA candidate in Theatre and Performance at The New School and Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College.

brynn has directed many plays and readings with The Seeing Place, where she has also performed in many productions and authored several new plays - most notably the world premieres of Animal Farm, The Queer Witch Conspiracy, Scotch Kiss, When We Have Gone Astray, The People Vs Antigone, and The Hysteria of Dr Faustus, which were all adapted for and devised by The Seeing Place Ensemble through improvisation. As a writer and director, brynn also developed The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe with Poor Players Theatre Company, which was a the full Mechanicals' Story from A Midsummer Night's Dream created as a touring production for young people.

She was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role for her performance in The Seeing Place's Off-Broadway production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.