Who's Who in Theatre Wesleyan

Connie Whitt-Lambert
Professor of  Theatre

Chair of Theatre Department

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.

Connie's script BOOT LICK, a western homage to Shakespeare, was produced in 2002 by the Palestine Library Friends; and her comedy WONDERFUL TO BE WICKED was presented by Gordon College in Georgia as part of its sesquicentennial celebration. Last year Southwestern Oklahoma State University performed her script of THE RADIO SHOW: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. In July 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.