INTRODUCTION
Walker was born at the no-longer-existent New York Hospital. He resided with his parents on E 90th Street for the first five years of his life and attended The Day School, although he doesn’t remember it. He loved music, magic shows and Central Park.

GILMAN SCHOOL
When he was five, his parents relocated the family to Owings Mills, MD, a suburb of Baltimore frequently referred to as: “the valley“. Walker was enrolled in an all-boys, sports-intensive, private, college preparatory school called Gilman where he made average grades. He was, for a very short time, captain of his 6th grade football team, but soon after being appointed, he renounced the position, resigned from the school, and went into psychoanalysis.

THE BALTIMORE ACTORS’ THEATRE
In the second semester of 6th grade, as his emotional life intensified, Walker chose to transfer mid-year to The Baltimore Actors’ Theatre Conservatory, a cult-like school which offered a relatively poor academic education in the morning, and a rigorous, military academy-like arts program in the afternoon. The school was founded in 1979 by a man (Walter E. Anderson) and woman (Helen Grigal) who ran the Oregon Ridge Dinner Theatre in Cockeysville, MD, and were inspired to open an elementary school. Between the ages of eleven and fifteen, Walker performed at no cost and without a contract in many classic American Musicals. He also starred in several musical reviews (all entitled Viva Broadway!) and was in the company of Baltimore Actors’ Theatre’s original adaptation of Phantom of The Opera. At age twelve, Walker went on the road with Phantom when they took the production to Sidney, Australia. Although he has some good memories of the place, Walker still fantasizes about suing the company for emotional abuse, child exploitation, and violating child labor laws.

When Walker was thirteen, he competed in the Rosa Ponselle Voice Competition and won The Silver Rose Award, which earned him a part in Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute. Hosting the evening was New York Times Music Critic, classical music radio personality, and host of “The Texaco Opera Quiz“ Edward Downes. Miss Elayne Duke and Maestro Igor Chichagov were also in attendance.

Walker had severe stomach pain for the entirety of his fourteenth year: a psychosomatic symptom of anxiety due to the high-octane stress of gaining the approval of two tyrannical Dinner Theatre directors.

THE WALNUT HILL YEARS
Seven days before his high school sophomore year was to begin, Walker came to his senses and decided to leave the state of Maryland altogether. He was accepted to Walnut Hill School for the Arts: the oldest secondary school for the arts in the country and the only independent school in the United States to be affiliated with a major conservatory of music (New England Conservatory in Boston). For three years Walker lived on the Walnut Hill campus in Natick, Massachusetts.

He continued psychotherapy.

While at Walnut Hill, Walker made average grades academically, while scoring high in acting, voice and musical theatre. Teacher and theatre director Joe Cabral saved Walker by helping to rid him of bad acting habits and stage mannerisms acquired from a harsh, five-year dinner theater regime. These bad habits included “acting with his hands“ or what is commonly known in the business as indicating: “Pointing to what behavior is supposed to look like rather than creating genuine truthful behavior.“ (Doug Moston. Drama Publishers. 1993)

Before Walker knew he was gay, he played “Mark“, a gay hustler grappling with the illness of his lover in Michael Cristofer’s play: The Shadow Box. He played Cinderella’s Prince in Sondheim’s Into The Woods, Agwe in an all-white cast of Once On This Island, Autolycus in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar. He lived in an all-boys dorm (“Clark“) for his remaining three years of high school, and had four girlfriends, each one of them a dance major. He would lose his virginity to none of them. He listened to Tori Amos and had no major disciplinary problems.

NYU TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
Walker has his B.F.A in drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, although that doesn’t really matter. From what he’s been told, and from what he knows personally, B.F.As don’t carry any substantial weight for actors who are living in Manhattan and trying to work virtually anywhere.

He went to Collaberative Arts Projects 21 (the musical theatre studio) for one year before transferring to The Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting. While at Tisch, Walker acted in numerous productions such as Godspell (directed by Jared Coseglia), Six Degrees of Separation (directed by Jared Coseglia), Pentecost (directed by Fritz Ertle) and played Captain Walker in The Who’s TOMMY, (directed by Reed Farley.)

He graduated without honors, but on time.

CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF BROADCASTING
After a nervous breakdown in 2004, Walker decided to pursue a career in radio. He was on a lot of lithium and did not really understand what was going on anyway. So northward he went to Stratford, CT to reinvent himself. Having already taken 15 years of voice and speech classes by that time, he could have forgone that aspect of the program at CSB; but he did learn how to write copy, produce audio and run a board. He’s still writing copy, producing audio and running boards to this day.