Awards and Fellowships
- 2019-2020 Institute for African and African American Research for the project, “Asylum”
- Behold, A Negress: 2019-2020 Playwrights’ Center McKnight National Residency and Commission Finalist
- 2018 Arts and Humanities Grant Recipient for the project titled, “Staging Environmental Justice”
- Among These Wild Things, InterAct Theatre Company’s 2018 New Play Development Award
- 2018-2020 University Research Council Grant: “Jacqueline E. Lawton’s New Play Development Series”
- Among These Wild Things, 2018 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference Semi-Finalist
- 2018 Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship Award Recipient
- 2016-2017 Junior Faculty Development Award: Playwriting
- 2015-2016 Kenan Creative Collaboratory Grant: Playwriting
- 2014-2015 Cultural Connection Artist-in-Residence for the School of Theater and Dance, James Madison University College of Visual and Performing Arts Diversity Council
- 2012 PONY Fellowship Nominee
- 2011 Wendy Wasserstein Prize Nominee
- 2007 & 2009 Young Artist Grant - DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and NEA
- 2008 Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) Residency Grant
- 2007 Small Projects Program – DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
- 2006 Semi-finalist – The Playwrights’ Center’s PlayLabs, Minneapolis, MN
- 2006 Finalist – SheWrites Festival, Synchronicity Theatre, Atlanta, GA
- 2005 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Travel Grant: UT – Austin
- 2001-2003 Graduate Student Professional Development Award: UT – Austin
- 2000-2003 James A. Michener Fellowship: UT: Austin
- 2000-2003 Jean McKenzie Schenkkan Endowed Scholarship in Playwriting: UT – Austin.
- 2000-2003 Ellsworth and Virginia Conkle Endowed Scholarship in Playwriting: UT – Austin.
- 2000-2003 Morton, Nellie Lea, and Minelma Brown Lockwood Endowed Scholarship in Playwriting: UT – Austin.