Celeste Walker

Artist, Change Agent, Educator/Teacher, Idea generator, Performer, Writer/Editor

Celeste Walker is an actor, director and adjunct professor, with a BFA from Kutztown University and an MFA in Acting from The Actor’s Studio Drama School at the New School University in New York. She is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio and a member of Actors Equity. Ms. Walker was an Adjunct Professor of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies at Arcadia University. She retired from Arcadia in the spring of 2024 and returned this semester to create her final TEDx event. She served as an Adjunct Representative on Arcadia University’s Faculty Senate and as an At Large Delegate for United Academics of Philadelphia. She was on the bargaining team for Arcadia University’s first Collective Bargaining Contract and was on the team for their second successful contract in 2023. Celeste developed and taught innovative interdisciplinary curriculum at Arcadia University. Some of these included Inside-Out: Acting Behind the Walls; Laughing Matters, Shakespeare on Stage with Seniors; Gender bending and Film, Flying Solo: The art of solo performance, Radical Arts: The Study and Practice of the Arts for Social Change; Italy on Film (Honors travel course to Rome) and Italiano Americano: Philly Style. For the Honors department at Arcadia, she has, along with her honors students, organized six TEDx Events at Arcadia in 2022 and is in the process of organizing her final TEDx event this semester. She remains an Adjunct Professor of Communication Studies at Montgomery County Community College where she teaches online courses from her home in Bethany Beach, Delaware. Other Professional Accomplishments: • In 2003 she was awarded Advisor of the Year at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA. • In 2004 she developed and conducted workshops in acting and performance techniques for lawyers as part of their continuing legal education in partnership with The Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, PA. Courtroom Drama: Acting Techniques for Attorneys© is approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Association. • In 2006 she was a presenter at the New York State Bar Association Commercial and Federal Litigation Section Spring Meeting. She appeared on the panel presentation titled, Attorneys, Actors & The Art of Oral Advocacy. • In 2010 she was a presenter at Recipes for Success, a series of programs designed to ensure that professionals & business owners have all the ingredients they need to reach their maximum potential. • In 2012 she presented a paper on Outside-of-the Box Thinking for Group Project Assignments at the Best Practices Conference on Innovation and Creativity in the Classroom at Bergen County College, New Jersey. • In 2014 She presented an academic poster, Shakespeare with Seniors: One Pedagogy, Two Goals at Temple University’s Twelfth Annual Faculty Conference on Teaching Excellence in Philadelphia, PA. • She developed and led "Advanced Communication Skills Workshop: Verbal and Non-verbal Techniques to Improve Attorney Performance in Administrative Hearings, Negotiations, and Effective Communications"© at the 2015 Naval Litigation Day Department of the Navy Office of the General Counsel Symposium. • In 2016, she presented a workshop on Effective Communication at the Pennsylvania Department of Health Technical Assistance Conference in Harrisburg, PA. • She presented a paper, “What’s Acting Got to Do with Restorative Justice” at the Justice Studies Association Conference at the University of Albany, SUNY. Celeste is also a professional actor. She has appeared off Broadway and in theatres in New York City, New Jersey, the Lehigh Valley, California and Philadelphia. Presently, she is a solo performer touring her third solo show, GHOSTED, nationwide. GHOSTED, directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson, had its World Premiere at United Solo Festival in New York City in April 2024, was featured at The Philadelphia Fringe Festival in September 2024, was performed at the Civic Theatre in Allentown, PA in November of 2024 at the Binge Fringe Festival at the Santa Monica Playhouse in March 2025 and at the Dickens Parlour Theatre in Ocean View Delaware, in May 2025. GHOSTED has been selected to be a part of the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival in March and at the Atlanta Fringe Festival in May of this year.

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