Laura Valerie Walker

Theatre director & producer

Laura is seated on a floor cushion. In the background, sunlight spills in through a large window. She is gesturing with sticky notes and a pen in hand. She is smiling with a bright, excited expression.
Photography by Chak Hin Leung. Delicate Habitat R&D 2025.

Current Projects

In a sketched style, this image depicts a pomegranate cut open; its seeds spill out and leaves cluster around it.

A Scottish adaptation of the Persephone myth, through a contemporary feminist lens. Following an initial R&D, this project will next explore devising process with lead artist Rachel Haston and playwright Anna Whealing.

Read more about this project on my Producing page

A woman actor sits at a dining table set with for a meal with a bottle of wine. Her script is in front of her and she looks out of the frame with an exasperated expression.
Photography by Graeme Read. How to Train Your Dad to Be a Feminist R&D 2025. Lucy Beth as Penny.

Written by Sophie Wink, this play explores how misogyny shows up in our family relationships. Following R&D in 2023 and 2025, the next stage for this play is production.

Read more about this project on my Producing page

Three women performers are crowded together, their bodies close, reaching their arms upwards, their gaze follows. In the background, sunlight shines through large windows.
Photography by Chak Hin Leung. Delicate Habitat R&D 2025. Alexandra Tsaiapi, Tsoi Huen Wong and Niamh O-Loughlin.

Following an R&D at Dundreggan Rewilding Centre, we are preparing for the next stage of this movement theatre project which explores our relationship to the environment. Produced by Rosa Thomas.

Read more about this project on my Directing page