Mauri Walton

Mauri Walton is an actor, dancer, movement-artist, cabaret/host/singer/performer and multi-media performance creator. She has appeared in over 70 different productions across disciplines in film and theatre, and in countless and assorted venues in Philadelphia and beyond. Mauri is currently deeply appreciative and thoroughly enjoying being an artist in residence at thefidget space in Philadelphia. Her own performance creations have run the gamut from delicate solos to 25 member ensemble productions. She has ardently enjoyed collaborating and performing, with and for, numerous choreographers, directors, composers, and musicians, including: David Jacobson, Adrienne Truscott, Big Mess Theatre and Orchestra, Headlong Dance Theatre, Moxie Dance Collective, Group Motion, Nichole Canuso, SubCircle, Grace Mi He Lee, Lee Ann Etzold, Kathryn Te Bordo, Mark O’Maley, Rebecca Sloan, David Gammons, Peter Price, Megan Bridge, Chris Mandra and Paule Turner among many, many, many others. Her work has frequently been presented at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Painted Bride Art Center, and at the Kimmel Center for the Philadelphia Orchestra. She was quite favorably reviewed in ReelTalk for her portrayal of Nina in Vera Zubarev’s film, “Four Funny Families”. Other critics have described her work as: “Genuinely, weirdly, intriguing”, “hilarious and adroit”, and as having “dark and twisty themes”. She was cited as managing “somehow to reinvent the most famous scene in theatre” in her Hamlet deconstruction, “Tubey or Not Tubey, a Ham uhmLET”. Mauri’s colleagues describe her as: “One of Philadelphia’s often kept secrets”, “performance art luminary” and “… well, Mauri makes the experimental performance world go ‘round”. Audience members have described the effect of Mauri’s work on them as: “a single statement by Mauri Walton has forever altered my perspective on the topology of the causal pathways in the universe”, and “her portrayal of her subject was so quirky and yet so compellingly and hauntingly real”. Mauri has received grants and awards for her work, among which are those from the PA Council on the Arts and through the Community Education Center.