The following is one of several interviews conducted by students of Ron DeMarco’s properties class at Emerson College.
Interview with Monique Walker: Prop Master of Village Theatre
by Coco Nakase
Monique Walker, the current props master for the Village Theatre in Washington, answered the phone one February afternoon with encouraging enthusiasm, eager to speak about her rich history of work and the art of props. Monique began in theatre as a high school student, primarily acting in plays and working on the sets in her small town Iowan high school. She had always had an interest in drawing and painting, so when she went to college at University of Northern Iowa, she first majored in Interior Design. “It was in the Home Ec department. And I was like, really? This is awful! It was just decoration, it had nothing to do with architecture or anything like that.†Continue reading Interview with Monique Walker