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Seshat Yon’shea Walker is a writer, multidisciplinary artist, intentionalist and founder. She founded the aSHE Fund, madebyaSHE and Jazz All Night DC. She is currently the unofficial official Artist In Residence of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens.
Seshat’s plays have been presented by New Perspectives Theatre, Detroit Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Capital Fringe Festival and DC Arts Center.
Readings have been presented by Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Studio Theatre, 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.
Current Plays: A MANIFESTATION OF SUNNYY BLACK, Shawty’s Blues, CHRCH, A BLACK MUSIC STORY, Familial Comforts, and Diana’s Got No Juice.
Current Works in Progress: For The Sistaz In That O’Keefe Painting ( New Perspectives Theatre) Ayo Pause, A Variety Show of Epic Hormonal Fluctuations, KTCHN, and The Black Woman Play.
Monologues: Testimony: Fear the Kindness Ms Goody Goody-Published in True Colors Theatre Next Narrative Compendium Volume 3 2027
In other lives Seshat was project director for DeanwoodxDesign, amongst one of the first place-making projects in Washington DC she thought at the time was about bettering her neighborhood and gentrification, publicist for an internationally known hip hop-jazz fusion band where she begin dating one of its members and ultimately married him, a people-pleaser as a result of various childhood traumas that wouldn’t reveal themselves until she reached menopause, a reporter for a bi-monthly community rag where she attended local anc and ex government meetings after which she’d receive calls from local politicians cursing her for accurate coverage, a poet and spoken artist along the U Street arts scene aka Black Broadway in the late 90s/early2000’s along with many Black lumanaries, authors, curators, directors you may and MAY know, a sundays- at-malcom-x-park-with-thedrummers-goer, development assistant for NCNW under the direction of Thee Dr. Dorothy Height, a dedicated CHRCH goer at State of the Union lead by Pastor Sam The Man Burns and program manager for arts and education at CCNV Homeless Shelter where she created various cultural and educational programs she’ll never get credit for because someone over her was mad she actually cared about the folks she was serving.
She earned her BA in Journalism from the illustrious PWI and top party school, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Design Management from SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) Check linkedin for other positions, affiliations and random associations etc .
She’s a member of Black Film Space and The Dramatists Guild of America.
2026
Women’s Work Full Length Lab, New Perspectives TheatreNYC
New Pages, New Stages Festival, Presented by Theatre Alliance, Studio Theatre DC
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Playwright Group, DC
2025
2025 DC Commission of The Arts Fellowship Recipient , Playwrighting
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Playwright Group, DC
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
SHAWY’S BLUES 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
CHRCH, A Black Music Story 2023 Pop Conference NYC
2022
Selected for Dramatic Question Theatre’s Playtime Development Workshop
CHRCH: A Black Music Story Kennedy Center Social Impact’s Local Theatre Residency Program from October 17th-21st, 2022.
Testimony: Fear The Kindness 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