Awards and Fellowships

  • 2018 Arts and Humanities Grant Recipient for the project titled, “Staging Environmental Justice.”
  • AMONG THESE WILD THINGS receives InterAct Theatre Company’s 2018 New Play Development Award
  • 2018 University Research Council (URC) Grant Recipient for the project titled “Jacqueline E. Lawton’s New Play Development Series.”
  • 2018 Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship Award Recipient to research, write, and develop a new play about investigative journalist and activist, Marvel Cooke.
  • AMONG THESE WILD THINGS is named semi-finalist for the 2018 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference
  • 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.
  • 2014 Finalist, Source Festival Full-Length Plays - Love Brothers Serenade
  • 2013 Semi-finalist, O’Neill Playwrights Conference - Love Brothers Serenade
  • 2012 Playwrights of New York (PONY) Fellowship Nominee
  • 2011 Wendy Wasserstein Prize Nominee
  • 2007 & 2009 Young Artist Grant - DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for  the Arts
  • 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.
  • 2004 U.S. Playwriting Participant – World Interplay Festival, Townesville, Australia.
  • 2001-2003 Graduate Student Professional Development Award: UT – Austin.
  • 2000-2003 James A. Michener Fellowship: University of Texas – 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.