Phone: 860-486-1634
Fax: 860-486-3110
Email: carlton.molette@uconn.edu

CARLTON W. MOLETTE (Senior Fellow of the Institute for African-American Studies and Professor of Dramatic Arts in African-American Theatre, Dramatic Literature and Directing): Ph.D. Florida State University. Dr. Molette has worked on over 100 productions as producer, playwright, director, designer, or stage manager. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Several of his plays, written in collaboration with his wife, Barbara Molette, Ph.D., have been produced by university theatres including Ohio State, Howard, and Western Michigan; the Negro Ensemble Company, the Free Southern Theatre, and other Black theatre companies in Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Memphis, Providence, and Washington, D.C.; locally televised in Houston, Texas, and published by Dramatist Play Service and in anthologies including Black Writers of America and Center Stage. The Molettes' book, Black Theatre: Premise and Presentation, is now in its second edition. Dr. Molette has also served as President of the National Conference on African American Theatre; guest director at the University of Michigan; seminar leader in African American Drama at the University of Iowa; consultant for universities, colleges, the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, and theatre companies; on the boards of arts organizations; Chair of the Division of Fine Arts at Spelman College; Artistic Director of the Atlanta University Summer Theatre; Dean of Texas Southern University's School of Communications; Dean of Arts and Sciences as Lincoln (MO) University; and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Coppin State College. Recently, he directed FORTUNES OF THE MOOR by Barbara and Carlton Molette for Abibigromma (the National Theatre Company of Ghana). The play was presented at the Drama Studio in Legon, the National Theatre in Accra, and the Third Pan African Historical Theatre Festival in Cape Coast.