Lynne Conner

Lynne Conner, Ph.D., is a cultural historian, stage director and playwright.Her plays and adaptations have been produced at theatres across the United States. Her most recent play, "The Mother," is a 2018 and 2019 Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center National Playwright’s Conference semifinalist. Her play about Rachel Carson, "In the Garden of Live FLowers" (co-written with Attilio Favorini), won the 2002 Kennedy Center National Playwriting Award and an honorable mention prize in the 2002 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award contest and is published by Dramatic Publishing Company.

In January 2013, Conner was awarded the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region I Award for Excellence for her original adaptation of "Lysistrata." Her scholarly publications include the books "Audience Engagement and the Role of Arts Talk in the Digital Era" (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), "Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater" (University of Pittsburgh Press 2007), "Spreading the Gospel of the Modern Dance: Newspaper Dance Criticism in the United States, 1850-1935" (University of Pittsburgh Press 1997) and "Project Brief: The Heinz Endowments’ Arts Experience Initiative" (The Heinz Endowments 2008). She has published chapters, articles and essays in "Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life" (Routledge), "l’ordinaires des Amerique, Crucibles of Crisis" (University of Michigan Press), Theatre Annual, Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, The International Dictionary of Modern Dance, Metamorphosis, High Performance, Theatre Studies and numerous newspapers and arts industry journals.