Adrienne Walker (she/her)

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 theatre for a living, her dream is to be the voice of an animated character so she was thrilled to bring the voice of feisty non-gender conforming Peanut alive on the LGBTQ animated YouTube series McTucky Fried High.