TCU DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE
FACULTY MEMBER

CONNIE DE VEER

Assistant Professor
B.F.A. – Texas Christian University
M.F.A. – University of Texas-Austin
Actors Equity Association

Connie de Veer received her BFA in Acting from Texas Christian University in 1979 and her MFA in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, teaching Acting and Voice/Text, in addition to directing TCU’s fall 2006 production of Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes.

Connie is a former Associate professor of Theatre at Illinois State University, where she taught Acting, Voice, and Movement to undergraduate and graduate Acting majors. She directed Cosi Fan Tutte, The Pirates of Penzance, The Rover, Company and Riders to the Sea at Illinois State. As a 1992 recipient of the College of Fine Arts Faculty Initiative grant, she studied voice and text with Jane Boston and David Carey from the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has also studied the Linklater voice technique with Diane Timmerman at Indiana Repertory Theatre. She served as staff movement coach and choreographer for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival for several seasons, on such productions as The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, the world premiere of The Falcon’s Pitch, Pericles, The Comedy of Errors, and many others.

She is a member of Actor’s Equity Association and her representative acting credits include Greetings, How I Got That Story, and Berlin to Broadway at Heartland Theatre Company; Chicago and Hansel and Grethel at Theatre Three; Fiddler on the Roof with Mel and Katy Dacus at Casa Manana; Kismet at Darien Dinner Theatre; The King and I with Beth Fowler at the Westchester Broadway Theater; and numerous roles as a company member with both the Light Opera of Manhattan and the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Connie received her certification in the Alexander Technique from the Urbana Center for the Alexander Technique, under Joan and Alex Murray.

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