Stuart Chamberlain was elected to The Lambs in 1989 as a Professional member.
Universally known as “Stu,” he spent his professional career as a broadcast journalist. Most of his time was spent with ABC News in New York, where he put words into the mouths of most of the network’s most famous correspondents. Earlier in his career, he was a disk jockey and news reporter at radio stations in central Pennsylvania and in public television. He won 10 WGA awards for his writing at ABC.
But the performance bug bit Stu early in his life. He began piano lessons at age 4 and was enrolled as a choir boy at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine at age 9. While at the Cathedral Choir School, he made his onstage debut in a short musical written for the school by one of the most popular singers of the day, Lamb Lanny Ross.
In his later life Stu was always affiliated with an amateur theatre troupe wherever he was, performing onstage at Pennsylvania’s Boal Barn Playhouse, the Penn State Thespians, and New York’s Amateur Comedy Club. He was also a pianist in any number of pit bands with those groups. He was popular on the New York cabaret circuit as accompanist for the comedienne Elaine Swann, whom he sponsored as a member of the Lambs.
In addition to the Cathedral Choir School, Stu was educated at Kent School (Connecticut) and at Penn State University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree. He was also a William Benton Fellow at the University of Chicago.
In 2024, Stuart retired to Peoria, Illinois.