Theatre and Dance Guest Jacqueline Lawton
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SUMMARY: The School of Theatre and Dance is pleased to welcome playwright, dramaturg, scholar, and arts advocate Jacqueline Lawton to campus.
The School of Theatre and Dance is pleased to welcome playwright, dramaturg, scholar, and arts advocate Jacqueline Lawton to campus. Ms. Lawton will be at JMU from 2/9-2/14 as the Theatre Area’s 2014-2015 Cultural Connections Guest Artist. Her residency is titled “Beginning and Sustaining Diverse Dialogues.” It is our sincere hope that her work will initiate engaged discussions about identity, community, and collaboration (both onstage and off) in the School of Theatre and Dance, throughout the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and across JMU’s campus.
Events include:
Devised Performance: Friday, 2/13, 8pm, Studio Theatre
(This event is free, but seats are limited, so please arrive early…)
Staged Reading, The Hampton Years by Jacqueline Lawton: Saturday, 2/14, 8pm, Studio Theatre
(This event is free, but seats are limited, so please arrive early…)
Brown Bag Sessions:
You can find out more about Jacqueline on her website: http://www.jacquelinelawton.com/
For questions, please contact Dr. Zachary Dorsey: dorseyza@jmu.edu
Jacqueline E. Lawton was named one of 30 of the nation’s leading black playwrights by Arena Stage’s American Voices New Play Institute. Her plays include: Anna K; Blood-bound and Tongue-tied; Deep Belly Beautiful; The Devil’s Sweet Water; The Hampton Years; Ira Aldridge: the African Roscius; Lions of Industry, Mothers of Invention; Love Brothers Serenade (2013 semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s national Playwrights Conference); Mad Breed; and Our Man Beverly Snow. Ms. Lawton received her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. She is a 2012 TCG Young Leaders of Color award recipient and a National New Play Network (NNPN) Playwright Alumna. A member of Arena Stage’s Playwrights’ Arena and the Dramatist Guild of America, Ms. Lawton currently is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
