Jean Burton Walker is a playwright, actress, and musician.  As a playwright, her main focus has been on her characters’ struggle to live as they choose and love whom they want.  

 

In her most recent play The Wind Will Bring Him Back, Louisa, a sheltered daughter of southern gentility insists, against the cruel odds of the 1920s, on her right to love Elisha, a Black descendant of her family’s slaves. 

 

Other plays include Between Us: The Secret Life of Edith Wharton, in which Edith flees the cage of prim and proper for a life of freedom of thought and sex; Travels with Lillian: A Southern Lady’s Guide to Becoming a Worldly Woman; Aids Portraits and Monologues, and many ten-minute plays.

 

A classically trained actress, she has played many roles that portray not only women’s entrapment but also their freedom, from Mme. Ranyevskayia to Joanna Lippiatt and from Mrs. Alving to Irena Arkadina.