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.