Pamela Gaye Walker

{{short description|American actress, writer, director, and producer}}

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| birth_name = Pamela Gaye

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| birth_place = South Bend, Indiana

| nationality = American

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| alma_mater = University of Notre Dame

| occupation = Producer, actress

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| spouse = {{marriage|John Walker|December 5, 1981}}

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Pamela Gaye Walker is an American actress, writer, director, and producer for film and theatre. She is a member of Actors' Equity Association (AEA), and Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Radio and Television Artists (SAG-AFTRA).{{cite web|title=JE Talent, SF|url=http://www.sfcasting.com/AgencySite/SearchResults.asp?crypt=dibdmfndgailnongdijdbgnbkbeakciobbbomlbmaocegboi&page=6&CFld=|website=JE Talent}} She is the founder and President of Ghost Ranch Productions.{{Cite book|title = On Susan Glaspell's Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers": Centennial Essays, Interviews and Adaptations|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rQ_NCgAAQBAJ|publisher = McFarland|date = 2015-10-09|isbn = 9781476622064|first1 = Martha C.|last1 = Carpentier|first2 = Emeline|last2 = Jouve}} She is known for Shakti's Retreat (2013){{Cite web|title = Shakti's Retreat {{!}} A Comic Thriller by Pamela Gaye Walker|url = http://shaktisretreat.com/|website = shaktisretreat.com|access-date = 2013-05-15}} and Trifles (2009).

Walker married stage/film producer John Walker on December 5, 1981. Professionally, John and Pamela starred together in over twenty shows at The Peninsula Players Theatre in Door County, Wisconsin.{{cite web|title=Peninsula Players|url=http://www.peninsulaplayers.com/about-us/national-advisory-council/|website=Peninsula Players}} Her marriage proposal took place onstage there, after the opening night performance of Children of a Lesser God.{{Cite web|title = Virago Theatre Notes|url = http://viragotheatrenotes.blogspot.com/2015/05/interview-conducted-43015-pamela-gaye.html|access-date = 2015-11-28|first = Dennis|last = Chowenhill}}

In Chicago, Walker worked and taught acting at Victory Gardens Theater, where she played Georgie in Theresa Rebeck's Spike Heels and the Chicago Tribune's review said, "she's a sharp, funny, delightful comic actress, and she anchors the production in warmth, grace, spontaneity and beauty."{{Cite web|title = 'Spike Heels' Trips In Bid To Get Laughs|url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/04/15/spike-heels-trips-in-bid-to-get-laughs/|website = tribunedigital-chicagotribune|access-date = 2015-11-28}} She was also in Murder in Green Meadows by Doug Post, and Claudia Allen's Hannah Free, which garnered her the Actress of the Year Award from the Academy of Theatre Artists and Friends. Walker also received a nomination by the Joseph Jefferson Award committee for Outstanding Achievement by a Principal Actress in a Play for her work in Sea Marks at The Royal George Theater.{{Cite web|title = After the Revolution {{!}} Aurora Theatre|url = https://auroratheatre.org/index.php?option=com_theatre&view=show&id=31|website = auroratheatre.org|access-date = 2013-08-30}}

One of her most highly acclaimed roles was as Georgia O'Keeffe in the two-person play, Alfred Stieglitz Loves O'Keeffe, based on the volatile love and artistic relationship between painter Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz.{{Cite web|title = Pamela in Stieglitz Loves O'Keeffe {{!}} Pamela Gaye Walker|url = http://pamelagayewalker.com/2012/12/07/alfred-stieglitz-loves-okeeffe/|access-date = 2015-11-26}}

Critical reviews of Walker's work include:

:Backstage: "Walker beautifully conveys O’Keeffe’s inner turmoil, self-centeredness and eroticism...volatile, sensuous, playful, withholding and insecure..."{{Cite web|title = THE LAST SCHWARTZ|url = http://www.backstage.com/review/the-last-schwartz/|website = Backstage.com|access-date = 2007-11-06}}

:Pasadena Weekly: "Walker and Ortlieb bring the lovers to life. Alone, each performer is formidable. Together, the play leaps off the stage and into the stratosphere."{{Cite web|title = Theater: 'The Last Schwartz' gets the last laugh {{!}} Arts|url = http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/theater_the_last_schwartz_gets_the_last_laugh_20071228|website = Jewish Journal|access-date = 2007-12-27}}

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Walker worked as an actor with Theatreworks in Donald Margulies' Brooklyn Boy,{{Cite web|title = 'Brooklyn Boy' makes good {{!}} August 4, 2006 {{!}} Mountain View Voice {{!}} Mountain View Online {{!}}|url = http://www.mv-voice.com/print/story/2006/08/04/brooklyn-boy-makes-good|website = www.mv-voice.com|access-date = 2006-08-04}} at the Magic Theatre in Theresa Rebeck's world premiere of What We're Up Against,{{Cite web|title = What We're Up Against|url = https://variety.com/2011/legit/reviews/what-we-re-up-against-1117944609/|website = Variety| date=February 14, 2011 |access-date = 2015-02-14|language = en-US}} and in two plays for the Aurora Theatre – Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman{{Cite web|title = John Gabriel Borkman {{!}} Aurora Theatre|url = https://auroratheatre.org/index.php?option=com_theatre&view=show&id=42|website = auroratheatre.org|access-date = 2015-11-28}} and Amy Herzog's After the Revolution.{{Cite web|title = 'After the Revolution' review: Heartbreaking|url = http://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/After-the-Revolution-review-Heartbreaking-4792498.php|website = SFGate| date=September 6, 2013 |access-date = 2013-09-26}} Most recently, in May 2015, Pamela starred with her husband, John, in the world premiere of Empty Nester by Garrett Jon Groenveld.{{Cite web|title = The Empty Nesters rings true at the Thick House|url = http://forallevents.info/reviews/the-empty-nesters-rings-true-at-the-thick-house/|website = forallevents.info|access-date = 2015-05-22}}{{Cite web|title = 'Empty Nesters' never gets off the ground|url = http://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/empty-nesters-never-gets-off-the-ground/Content?oid=2931353|website = The San Francisco Examiner|access-date = 2015-05-27|first = Jean|last = Schiffman}}