i come from backwoods, pig feet, a peeling green house, the gospel
I write about the magic and beauty in the seemingly mundane, everyday experiences specifically, with regard to the lives of Black women.
Seshat Yon’shea Walker is a certified country gurl raised on the Eastern shore. She’s also a writer, multidisciplinary creative, and founder.
Seshat’s plays and productions have been presented by New Perspectives Theatre, Detroit Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Capital Fringe Festival and DC Arts Center. Readings of her work have been presented by AMT Theatre, NYC, Theatre Alliance, DC, Dramatic Question Theatre’s Digital Stage, Pop Conference NYC, Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center Local Theatre Festival, Two Strikes Theatre Collective, DC Public Library and Anacostia Arts Center.
Her current plays, short plays, and works in progress include A MANIFESTATION OF SUNNYY BLACK, Shawty’s Blues, CHRCH, A BLACK MUSIC STORY, Familial Comforts, A Black Woman’s Play , KITCHN, Diana’s Got No Juice, and others.
Seshat earned her BA in Journalism from IUP (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) and an MFA in Design Management from SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design). She’s a member of Black Film Space and The Dramatists Guild of America.
2025
2025 DC Commission of The Arts Fellowship Recipient , Playwrighting
Finalist, AGE Legacy Playwright Grant
Meganne George Women's Work Short Play Festival, New Perspectives Theatre, NYC
Neighborhood Plays Reading Series, AMT THEATER, NYC
Hot House New Play Block Party, Theatre Alliance, DC
2025 SPRING WORKSHOP INTENSIVES, THE WORKSHOP THEATRE, NYC
2025 Cohort, Women’s Work Lab, New Perspectives Theatre, NYC
2024
2024 Finalist The Women’s Work Lab , NYC
2024 Finalist for AGE Legacy Playwright Grant
Ten-minute play 2024 BRED HIP HOP THEATRE FEST DETROIT
Selected for the 2024 International Black Theatre Festival’s GARLAND THOMPSON, SR. READERS’ THEATRE OF NEW WORKS WINSTON SALEM
June Bingham Playwright Commission Finalist SALEM
CHRCH Selected for Capital Fringe 2024 DC
2023
2024 DC Commission of The Arts Fellowship Recipient , THEATRE
CHRCH, A BLACK MUSIC STORY Reading, Kennedy Center Local Theatre Festival
Selected for Congo Square Theatre Festival On the Square Reading Series, CHICAGO
Dramatic Question Theatre Digital Stage Season 2023
Familial Comforts Play Reading, Eaton House, DC
Transom Specials Selection
CHRCH, A Black Music Story Public Reading, DC
Selected and presented an excerpt of CHRCH for the 2023 Popconference NYC
2022
Selected for Dramatic Question Theatre’s Playtime Development Workshop
Completed and workshopped CHRCH: A Black Music Story in the Kennedy Center Social Impact’s Local Theatre Residency Program from October 17th-21st, 2022.
Testimony: Fear The Kindness selected for the 2022 Playwrights Experiment’s Monologue Festival #4 and Anthology. NYC
Finalist for the National Black Theatre’s I Am Soul Playwright Residency, NYC
Finalist AGE LEGACY PLAYWRIGHT GRANT
2021
Finalist in the Playwright Experiment’s Faces of America Monologue Festival, NYC
Selected and participated in the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive. DC