Walter Dallas

301.405.6695
2822 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
walterdallas@gmail.com

Education/Training:

MFA Directing, Yale School of Drama, 1971; B.A., Theatre, Morehouse College, 1968; Music and Theology, Harvard University, 1967; Theatre in Traditional African Societies and West African Dance, University of Ghana, Legon, 1976; View Points Training, EgoPo Theatre Company, Philadelphia, 2008; Photographic Studies, Ireland, 2010.

Areas of Specialization/Interest:

Acting, Playwriting, Solo Performance, Photography

Professional Affiliations:

Stage Directors and Choreographers Society since 1981;American Guild of Musical Artists since 2007

Representative Productions:

Over twenty-five world premieres including August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, Goodman Theatre in Chicago, hailed as one of the Top Ten Best Theatre Events of the Year by Newsweek Magazine; directed at theatres on and off-Broadway, regionally; projects in Africa, Canada, the Dominican Republic, England, France, Ireland, Russia, and South America. In Philadelphia: his gospel opera Lazarus, Unstoned; stage adaptations of the films Sparkle and Cooley High; record-breaking Porgy and Bess, Opera Company of Philadelphia; Master Harold...and the boys, Westport Country Playhouse; Blues For An Alabama Sky, African Continuum Theatre, Washington, DC; music director, Gee's Bend, Arden Theatre.

Honors and Awards:

Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts; Creative Genius Awards; California Emmy Award; Atlanta Mayoral Proclamation, Walter Dallas Day; Bronze Jubilee Awards for Outstanding Direction, National Endowment for the Arts Director Fellowship, New York Audelco Awards, NAACP Image Award Nomination; the 76ers Community Service All-Star Award; Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Promotion of South African Arts and Culture;  2010 Barrymore Nomination, Best Director; his production of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye was named one of Top Ten Theatre Events of 2007 by San Francisco Chronicle; writer for Standing in the Shadows of Motown, won several major awards including Best Non-Fiction Film from the New York Film Critics Circle and four Grammy Awards.