PENELOPE WALKER is making her Court Theatre debut. Other credits: A Tale of Two Cities (Shattered Globe Theatre); Inherit the Wind, A Christmas Carol, The Story, Crowns and Wit (Goodman Theatre); Purpose, Don DeLillo’s Love Lies Bleeding (Steppenwolf Theatre Company/The Kennedy Center); Mother Of The Maid, Into The Breeches, Curve Of Departure, Eclipsed, Gee’s Bend, Bee-luther-Hatchee (Northlight Theatre); The House That Will Not Stand, No One As Nasty (Victory Gardens Theater); Life Sucks, J. Nicole Brooks’s Black Diamond: The Years the Locusts Have Eaten (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Theater Wit); Love and Information (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company); We’re Gonna Be Okay, The Project(s), Agnes of God, Doubt, and The People’s Temple (American Theater Company); Will You Stand Up? (Erasing the Distance); Laura Jacqmin’s 10 Virgins and Lydia R. Diamond’s Voyeurs de Venus (Chicago Dramatists); Omnium Gatherum (Next Theatre Company); Chris-T (MPAACT); The Clink (Rivendell Theatre); Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery (Chicago Theatre Company). She created and starred in her own solo pieces, Daddy’s Girl and How I Jack Master Funked the Sugar in My Knee Caps!. She has appeared regionally with Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage and Alley Theatre. Film: Olympia, Dubious Ruffians, Flowers. Television: The Bear, Chicago Med, Chicago Justice, and Chicago Fire, South Side, Work In Progress, Boss.
Bio as of 7/2025