Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Maria Walker (Cinderella’s Mother, Granny, understudy: Steward, ensemble) engages in a wide variety of music and theater projects and creative ventures as a singer, actor, and teaching artist. She has appeared with Constellation Stage and Screen in Anne of Green Gables (Marilla), with Cardinal Stage in Mary Poppins (Mrs. Banks), Annie (Grace), The Wizard of Oz (Glinda), Charlotte’s Web (Charlotte), Willy Wonka (Mrs. Bucket), The Birthday Feast (Mrs. Allegri), A Year with Frog and Toad (Bird/Mouse/Mother Frog), Les Misérables, My Fair Lady, Oliver!, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and Beauty and the Beast. Additional credits include work with Bloomington Playwrights Project in Front Page Flo (Emma), Ivy Arts in Romeo and Juliet (Lady Capulet), and Indiana Festival Theatre in Sense and Sensibility (Mrs. Dashwood/Mrs. Ferrars) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Maria resides in Bloomington, where she earned her MM in Voice at the IU Jacobs School of Music.