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On this episode I talked with Adrienne about when she realized she loved performing, her passion for opera that led her to studying opera, participating in Porgy and Bess at Court Theatre in Chicago and deciding she instead wanted to pursue musical theatre, what prepared her for a career in musical theatre and how she became a well-rounded performer, what makes regional theatre so special, how her audition for The Lion King came about and what it was like, what stepping into the world of The Lion King as Nala and making her Broadway debut in The Lion King was like, her favorite stage door memories, deciding to take a small break from The Lion King to play Hattie in the 2nd Revival of Kiss Me Kate on Broadway, bringing herself to the characters she plays on stage, her dream roles, her show she co-hosts on Youtube, 32 Bar Cut, and how the idea for the show came to be, and MUCH MORE!
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Adrienne is an actor and vocalist based in New York, NY. A native of Jonesboro, GA, a suburb outside of Atlanta, she grew up singing in the church. She received her undergraduate degree in vocal performance at the historic Spelman College in Atlanta, GA. With the idea of pursuing a career in opera, she attended The Chicago Conservatory of Performing Arts, completing the program with a masters degree in vocal performance. However, Adrienne changed her mind about pursuing opera professionally after her first Chicago gig at Court Theatre in their 2011 production of Porgy and Bess and it’s been theatre for her ever since.
Since then her most notable regional credits are: Sondheim on Sondheim (Porchlight); HAIR, Rent (Paramount Theatre); Iphigenia in Aulis, Agamemnon (Court Theatre); and The Color Purple (Mercury Theatre) where she received a Jeff nomination for her performance as Shug Avery.
Adrienne Walker portrait, KMK, photo credit Emilio Madrid-Kuser for Broadwaycom.jpeg
Adrienne's life changed when she relocated to New York in 2016 for her Broadway debut starring as Nala in Disney’s The Lion King. In 2019, she took a short break from The Lion King to play the role of Hattie in Roundabout Theatre’s Broadway revival of Kiss Me Kate alongside Tony nominated Kelli O’Hara and Disney’s High School Musical star Corbin Bleu.
During the course of her career, she has had the pleasure and opportunity to work with notable directors John Doyle, Diane Paulus, Charles Newell, Jim Corti, John Stefaniuk, Scott Ellis & Casey Nicolaw. Although she does th… Read More
