Celeste Bedford Walker is an award-winning playwright whose works have been performed in major venues across the country. She is the recipient of several honors and awards, including finalist in the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a recognition given to outstanding work by female playwrights in the English speaking theater; the NAACP Image Award for positive portrayal of African Americans in the media; New York’s Audelco Award; and The Ensemble Theatre’s Salute to Texas Playwrights. Walker has written approximately thirty-seven plays that include children’s plays, comedies, tragicomedies and histories.
https://www.celestebedfordwalker.com/
https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/about/news/Camp-Logan-Event.html
https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/7954
Link: Celeste Bedford Walker brings “Sassy Mamas” to The Wittliff – The Keystone (txstate.edu)
Representative Plays
Camp Logan (w: 1987) (p: 1987)
Over Forty (w: 1989) (p: 1989)
Noble Lofton, Buffalo Soldier (w: 1993) (p: 1994)
Distant Voices (w: 1996) (p: 1997)
Sassafras Girls (w: 2003)
Sassy Mamas (w: 2007) (p: 2007)
I, Barbara Jordon (w: 2008) (p: 2008)
Camp Logan by Celeste Bedford Walker (1987
