INDReporter

Hub City thespians mourn Brown

Born in Chicago and raised in Arizona and California, Walter Brown moved to Lafayette in 1990 and was instrumental in helping the Hub City finally express the robust theater arts that had been bubbling beneath the surface for decades when it was more or less a one-community-theater town.

Lafayette’s theater community is mourning the loss of designer/director/teacher Walter Brown, who died at age 63 this past Friday.

Born in Chicago and raised in Arizona and California, Brown moved to Lafayette in 1990 and was instrumental in helping the Hub City finally express the robust theater arts that had been bubbling beneath the surface for decades when it was more or less a one-community-theater town. As a member and past president of the Evangeline Players and, later, Acting Unlimited, Brown was an active part of the local theater scene and was a critical component in establishing Theatre 810 on Jefferson Street, which along with Cité des Arts at the other end of Jefferson is a prime destination for live theater in Lafayette.

An interfaith memorial service will held for Brown at 11 a.m. on Friday at Fountain Memorial Funeral Home in Lafayette.

Dom Cross wrote a great article about Brown and the local theater community’s reaction to his death for The Daily Advertiser. Read it here.