Connie Whitt-Lambert

Professor of Theatre

Chair, Department of Theatre

Connie Whitt-Lambert, Chair of the Theatre Department, is a Professor of Theatre & Director of Wesleyan's Playwriting Program. She is the author of more than a dozen plays, produced at both local and national venues. Locally her work has been seen on the stages of Circle Theatre, Stage West, The Main Street Arts Festival, Six Flags, Theatre Wesleyan, Main Street Theatre, The Scott Theatre, Gaslight Dinner Theatre, and local schools. For over a decade, Connie was the resident playwright for Bread & Circus Theatre at The White Elephant Saloon where her series of western musical-comedies were presented each summer.

In May, Connie directed a reading of the original script THE BODY OF EVA PERON, by alumni Angela Gant and William L. Bryan, for PLAYMARKET 2007 which was presented in New York at 37 ARTS.

In 2006 her script SECOND COMING was featured at Edward Albee's Great Plains Theatre Conference. She was invited to return to the Conference this year where her script ICE was featured in the 2007 Play Lab.

Her original plays have been presented across the country.  BOOT LICK, a western homage to Shakespeare, was produced by the Palestine Library Friends; her comedy WONDERFUL TO BE WICKED was presented by Gordon College in Georgia as part of its sesquicentennial celebration. Southwestern Oklahoma State University performed her script of THE RADIO SHOW: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Fort Worth's Rose Marine Theatre staged her A MODERN ADAPTATION OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

During her sabbatical in the spring semester of 2002, Connie traveled the country as the Kennedy Center's playwriting representative on the American College Theatre Festival's National Selection Team. While on the road for eight weeks, she saw more than sixty university and college productions and met with students and faculty from all fifty states. Prior to her election to the Team, Connie served as the Playwriting Chair for the KCACTF five state region where she pioneered the Ten Minute Play Festival and was presented the Kennedy Center Medallion of Excellence in 2001.

Connie has been a UIL One Act Play Judge, the judge for the Live Theatre League's High School Playwriting competition, and the playwriting mentor for the Fort Worth Shakespeare in the Park student playwrights.  She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.