Walter Schoen

Walter Schoen has been a professional actor, director and stage manger for more than thirty years. During that time, his work has appeared in theaters from Broadway to Los Angeles. His work has ranged from contemporary plays by the likes of Eric Overmyer and August Wilson, to the classic works of Shakespeare and Sheridan. He has enjoyed staging the most challenging plays of David Mamet, Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and working on many of America’s best-known musicals such as Anything Goes, Oklahoma, The Sound of Music and Guys and Dolls. His comic work as an actor and director has been showcased in productions such as Harvey, Born Yesterday and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

As an Associate Professor at the University of Richmond since 1991, Walter has taught Acting, Directing, Script Analysis, Modern British and American Drama and the Interdisciplinary Core Course, an intensive reading course required of all first-year students. In addition to teaching, he directs two productions each year that have included On the Verge, A Doll’s House, Wings, The Tempest, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Glass Menagerie, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Tartuffe, Our Country’s Good, Sly Fox, Reckless, King Lear starring Ralph Waite, and Moby Dick co-adapted by Matt DiCintio and Mr. Schoen.