GHOSTED
Celeste Walker
GHOSTED: A (mostly) True Story of Love, Loss, Shame and Redemption, had its World Premiere at The United Solo Festival 2024 in New York City. The show was part of the 2024 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Civic Theatre’s Theatre 514 in Allentown, PA, featured at the Binge Fringe Festival at the Santa Monica Playhouse, The Dickens Parlour Theatre in Bethany Beach DE & the Harrisburg Fringe Festival in July 2025.
Developed with director Jessica Lynn Johnson, founder and master teacher at Soaring Solo Studios (https://www.soaringsolostudios.com/bio/).
Original music composed by Dan Shore, American composer from Allentown, Pennsylvania. https://www.danshoremusic.com/
Developed with director Jessica Lynn Johnson, founder and master teacher at Soaring Solo Studios (https://www.soaringsolostudios.com/bio/).
Original music composed by Dan Shore, American composer from Allentown, Pennsylvania. https://www.danshoremusic.com/
Celeste Walker
About the Artist(s): GHOSTED: A (mostly) True Story of Love, Loss, Shame and Redemption. The show was developed over a 2 year period with with solo artist, director and collaborator Jessica Lynn Johnson from Soaring Solo. Celeste Walker has been acting, directing and teaching since the early 1980s. Walker was a founding member of The Theatre Outlet in Allentown, PA where she acted, directed, stage managed, designed marketing and cleaned bathrooms before the shows for nearly 10 years before leaving to pursue her MFA. She has her Master of Fine Arts in Acting from The Actors Studio Drama School at the New School University in NYC. She is a member of Actor's Equity and lifetime member of the Actors Studio. GHOSTED was workshopped in a reading in August 2023 and had its World Premiere at The United Solo Festival, the biggest solo festival in the world, brings together some of the most talented solo performers from around the world, in April 2024 in New York City, GHOSTED was part of the 2024 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, then moved to The Civic Theatre’s, Theatre 514 in Allentown, PA in November 2024. In March, 2025, GHOSTED was featured at the Binge Fringe Festival at the Santa Monica Playhouse in California, and at the Dickens Parlour Theatre in Ocean View Delaware in May 2025. Hip replacement surgery put touring and participation in festivals over the summer and fall of 2025 on hold.
In addition to touring GHOSTED, Celeste has begun working on new material, including dipping her toes into Stand Up.
"With every wish, there comes a curse, " Bruce Springsteen. Solo performers connect with audiences through shared experiences. GHOSTED, written and performed by solo actor, Celeste Walker (https://www.celestewalker.com) is about a mature woman’s reconciliation with past ghosts, reclaiming an authentic self, and finding empowerment through resiliency.
In addition to touring GHOSTED, Celeste has begun working on new material, including dipping her toes into Stand Up.
"With every wish, there comes a curse, " Bruce Springsteen. Solo performers connect with audiences through shared experiences. GHOSTED, written and performed by solo actor, Celeste Walker (https://www.celestewalker.com) is about a mature woman’s reconciliation with past ghosts, reclaiming an authentic self, and finding empowerment through resiliency.
Artist(s) have also performed at the following Fringes: United Solo, NYC
Philadelphia Fringe, PA
Binge Fringe Festival, CA
Accepted at the Harrisburg Fringe, but had to cancel due to injury.
Philadelphia Fringe, PA
Binge Fringe Festival, CA
Accepted at the Harrisburg Fringe, but had to cancel due to injury.
https://nohoartsdistrict.com/ghosted-review/
https://lvstage.org/index.php/play-reviews/ghosted-one-womans-journey-though-love-loss-shame-and-redemption
"“Ghosted” is about falling in love... the hard way. Celeste was a young woman when she met Drew and fell hard. They had a long love affair, but he was married with a young family and they broke up suddenly when his wife found out. Months later he came back to her and then it was over once more and she never heard from him. Broken twice then. Oh how familiar this story is to me. A young, clever, lovely woman with low self esteem, dreaming of a life she could never really have. Living for a shadow of someone else. Hiding herself for the sake of another. It’s a universal story and yet one told in unique and compelling ways. Using characters from the hotel they both worked at, an old city hotel that had seen some things in the hundred-plus years of its existence that’s for sure and because of this, the history, the tragedy, the sheer about of life lived in it, the place had ghosts. Echos of memories and pain and pleasure absorbed into the very walls. This is where the guides that Celeste met come from and they did their best to help Celeste through the beginning, the middle, and the very end of this story. Celeste fell deeply in love and it didn’t work out. This happens. I’m sure it has happened to you. It has certainly happened to me. When we are young we think love is the end point, the high bar, the goal of all our lives. And it is. And also it isn’t. But it does change us. It molds us and scars us, and it forms us and for all those reasons it is worth noting, worth repeating and repeating the story of it. For heaven’s sake, without heartbreak there would be no art... would there!? Celeste has finally found herself after all these years, she has let go of her ghosts, although unsurprisingly it took her a while. The deeper the soul the deeper the love and the harder to shake it. But now, finally, she can tell this story, after so long and after she has found the love she always needed. True love. The love she has for herself. Her own fabulous, brilliant, shining self
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