Seshat Yon’shea Walker is a certified country gurl raised on the Eastern shore. She is also a writer, multidisciplinary creative, and founder.
Seshat aspires to write about the magic and beauty in the seemingly mundane, everyday experiences; specifically, with regard to the lives of Black women. Seshat is passionate about using both playwriting and screenwriting to influence, inspire and impact culture; to move the audience to a space of empathy and hopefully to actually care about the “other”. Additionally Seshat’s approach to theater is to move beyond the stage. Her education in human centered design coupled with her ten plus years of experience as a cultural worker has given her a unique perspective in creating site specific dramatic experiences.
Seshat’s creative work has been presented at Pop Conference NYC, Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the Anacostia Arts Center Black Box Theatre, Two Strikes Theatre Collective, DC Public Library and DC Arts Center. Seshat's poetry has been featured in Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds (2009), Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces(2006) The Hoot & Holler of the Owls (2003), and her self-published chapbook Locale (2000).
Her current plays and works in progress include CHRCH, A BLACK MUSIC STORY, Familial Comforts, and KITCHN.
Her werk CHRCH was selected for Congo Square Theatre’s 2023 Festival on the Square Reading Series and the Kennedy Center’s Local Theatre Festival. An excerpt from her work Familial Comforts was selected for Dramatic Question Theatre’s 2023 Digital Stage Season. She is a 2022 Finalist for the National Black Theatre’s, I Am Soul Playwright Residency and a 2022 AGE Legacy Playwright Grant Finalist. In October 2022 she completed a week-long residency at the