Craig Stewart Walker (born September 25, 1960) is a Canadian writer, theatre director, actor and educator. Walker graduated from

Bayview Secondary School Bayview Secondary School, initially known as Bayview High School is a grade 9–12, 2-semester secondary school operated by the York Region District School Board. It is located just north of the northeast corner of Bayview Avenue and Major Mackenz ...

and afterwards, began his career in the theatre as an actor with the Stratford Festival, the

Shaw Festival The Shaw Festival is a not-for-profit theatre festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. It is the second largest repertory theatre company in North America. The Shaw Festival was founded in 1962. Originally, it only featured productio ...

and the National Arts Centre of Canada and other companies. After returning to complete an M.A. in English and a Ph.D. in Drama at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...

, he was appointed to the Department of Drama at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where he is currently Professor and Director of the Dan School of Drama and Music. From 1997 till 2007, Walker served as artistic director of Theatre Kingston, a company for which he has directed many productions including his own ''Finnegans Wake: a dream play'' (based on the novel ''

Finnegans Wake ''Finnegans Wake'' is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is well known for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the Western canon. It has been called "a work of fiction which combines a bod ...

'' by

James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...

), which played in both Kingston and Toronto in 2001, and

Aeschylus Aeschylus (, ; grc-gre, Αἰσχύλος ; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, and is often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek ...

' ''

The Oresteia The ''Oresteia'' ( grc, Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of t ...

'', which was performed with ''

Proteus In Greek mythology, Proteus (; Ancient Greek: Πρωτεύς, ''Prōteus'') is an early prophetic sea-god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water, one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea" ''(hálios gérôn)''. ...

'', a satyr play Walker wrote himself to replace the one that had originally followed the trilogy, but had been lost since the 5th century BCE. In 2002, Walker wrote the book, music and lyrics for ''Chantecler: a musical'' (based loosely on a verse play by Edmond Rostand). More recently, he has worked as an actor and director with the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival in Prescott, Ontario. That company's production of ''

Twelfth Night ''Twelfth Night'', or ''What You Will'' is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Vi ...

'', which was directed by Walker, won the 2012 Prix Rideau Award for Outstanding Production. In 2009 he was appointed as a corresponding scholar with the

Works by Walker

*''The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition''. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. *''Finnegans Wake: a dream play'' (based on the novel by James Joyce). Produced by Theatre Kingston in 2001. *''Chantecler: a musical'' (book, music and lyrics; based on the play by Edmond Rostand). Produced by Theatre Kingston in 2002. *Editor, with Jennifer Wise, ''The Broadview Anthology of Drama, Volume One''. Broadview Press, 2003. *Editor, ''The Broadview Anthology of Drama, Volume Two''. Broadview Press, 2003. *Editor, with Jennifer Wise, ''The Concise Broadview Anthology of Drama''. Broadview Press, 2005. *Editor, ''King Lear'' by William Shakespeare (with facing Folio and Quarto text), ''The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Volume Two,'' ed. Joseph Black, et al. Broadview Press, 2006.

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The Buried Astrolabe
{{DEFAULTSORT:Walker, Craig 1960 births Living people 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights Canadian male film actors Canadian male stage actors Canadian theatre directors Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston University of Toronto alumni People from Richmond Hill, Ontario Male actors from Ontario Canadian male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Canadian male writers 21st-century Canadian male writers Writers from Ontario Canadian artistic directors