#193 - Nik Walker
Description
Broadway and Tv actor and writer, Nik Walker joins us to Take A Bow for his work in the entertainment industry. Nik is a true student of the art and takes you through his philosophies and ideologies of how to approach text as an actor. Hear all about:
- Journey to becoming a performer/storyteller
- What excites him most as an actor
- Why are stakes important
- How can being an actor, a writer, and a director all at the same time impact your work
- How taxing a role can be and how to take care of yourself
- Hamilton
- Hardest part of performing HAMILTON
- Spamalot
- Sharing a stage with your best friends (Alex Brightman, Christopher Fitzgerald, Ethan Slater, Leslie Kritzer, James Monroe Iglehart, etc.)
- How Motown influenced Broadway
- + So much more!
Curtain up, Nik Walker
Connect with Nik Walker on Instagram: @nikkywalks
Bio: Nik Walker is a Boston native, theme park nerd and proud NYU Tisch alum (Adler, Classical and Stonestreet)- who’s been earning a living in the industry for a decade and counting. He’s been seen on Broadway as Aaron Burr in Hamilton, Otis Williams in Ain’t Too Proud, and as Sir Galahad in the revival of Spamalot; on screen in Blue Bloods, Law and Order SVU, and in the upcoming AppleTV+ film The Instigators, alongside his hometown hero Matt Damon. Cleaners, the animated series that he created and writes with partner Alex Brightman, is in development at Warner Bros. Animation, and his musical, Whiskeyland, is being developed with veteran producers Hunter Arnold and Tina Cocumelli at TBD Theatricals. He is the co-host of the arts/activism show The Chaos Twins, and his movie podcast, Little Justice, is streaming where ever podcasts are imbibed. In the free time between all of this, Nik can either be found writing plays at a coffee shop, teaching incredible NYU students, or annoying his talented wife, Sarah Joyce.
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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