Press Release: D.C. Playwrights DW Gregory and Jacqueline E. Lawton Attend Playwrights Weekend
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On Friday, April 19th through Sunday, April 21st, D.C. Playwrights D.W. Gregory and Jacqueline E. Lawton will be in attendance at Interact Theatre and the National New Play Network's Playwrights Weekend. In celebration of Interact Theatre's 25th and NNPN's 15th anniversaries, both companies have convened some of the nation's leading playwrights, including Johnna Adams, Steven Dietz, Jennifer Fawcet, Thomas Gibbons, Jen Silverman, A. Zell Williams and Steve Yockey for readings, panels and discussion to address issues facing the new play sector.
Guests speakers, presenters and notable attendants include: Steven Dietz (playwright & Professor, University of Texas/Austin), David Dower (Co-Founder/Director, The Theatre Commons), Michael Dove (Artistic Director, Forum Theatre), Liz Engelman (freelance Dramaturg & Literary Manager), Adam Immerwahr (Associate Producer, McCarter Theater), Morgan Jenness (Literary Agent, Abrams Artists), Mike Lew (playwright & Director, Ma-Yi Writers Group), Jason Loewith (Artistic Director, Olney Theatre), Jeni Mahoney (playwright & Founder/Artistic Director, Seven Devils Playwriting Conference), Paul Meshejian (Artistic Director, PlayPenn) and Howard Shalwitz (Founder/Artistic Director, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company).
InterAct is a theatre for today’s world, producing new and contemporary plays that explore the social, political, and cultural issues of our time.
National New Play Network (NNPN), the country’s alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays.
Click here to learn more and for a schedule of events.
Guests speakers, presenters and notable attendants include: Steven Dietz (playwright & Professor, University of Texas/Austin), David Dower (Co-Founder/Director, The Theatre Commons), Michael Dove (Artistic Director, Forum Theatre), Liz Engelman (freelance Dramaturg & Literary Manager), Adam Immerwahr (Associate Producer, McCarter Theater), Morgan Jenness (Literary Agent, Abrams Artists), Mike Lew (playwright & Director, Ma-Yi Writers Group), Jason Loewith (Artistic Director, Olney Theatre), Jeni Mahoney (playwright & Founder/Artistic Director, Seven Devils Playwriting Conference), Paul Meshejian (Artistic Director, PlayPenn) and Howard Shalwitz (Founder/Artistic Director, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company).
InterAct is a theatre for today’s world, producing new and contemporary plays that explore the social, political, and cultural issues of our time.
National New Play Network (NNPN), the country’s alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays.
Click here to learn more and for a schedule of events.
D.W. GREGORY
A resident playwright at New Jersey Rep, D.W. Gregory writes in a variety of styles and genres, from the historical epic RADIUM GIRLS to the psychological thriller OCTOBER 1962. The Rep’s production of her impressionistic family drama THE GOOD DAUGHTER earned her a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2003, and her comedy MOLUMBY’S MILLION, produced by Iron Age Theatre, was nominated for Philadelphia’s Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2011. In addition, Gregory’s work has been presented or developed at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Theatre of the First Amendment, the Lark, the Young Vic, the New Harmony Project, ShenanArts, Round House Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others, and has been supported through grants from the National New Play Network, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland Arts Council, the Montgomery County Arts and Humanities Council, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her work in youth theatre began with a commission by Imagination Stage to write five plays for its Speak Out on Stage Program, including PENNY CANDY, MIRACLE IN MUDVILLE, and SECRET LIVES OF TOADS. In 2011, her drama SALVATION ROAD received the American Alliance for Theatre in Education’s Playwrights in Our Schools award and her short play WHAT GOES AROUND appeared in Dramatic Publishing’s BULLY PLAYS anthology. She is currently at work on a commission from NJ Rep for a new musical for young audiences adapted from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
JACQUELINE E. LAWTON
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. Lawton’s work has been developed and presented at the following venues: Active Cultures, Classical Theater of Harlem, Folger Shakespeare Library, theHegira, Howard University, Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festival, Rorschach Theater Company, Savannah Black Heritage Festival (Armstrong Atlantic State University), Shakespeare Theatre Company, Source Theatre Festival, Theater J, and Woolly Mammoth Theater Company. She is published in Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project (University of Texas Press). Ms. Lawton received her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. She participated in the Kennedy Center’s Playwrights’ Intensive (2002) and World Interplay (2003). She is a 2012 TCG Young Leaders of Color award recipient and a National New Play Network (NNPN) Playwright Alumna. She has been recognized as a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference and the Playwright's Center PlayLabs, and as a SheWrites Festival finalist. A member of Arena Stage's Playwright's Arena and the Dramatist Guild of America, Ms. Lawton currently resides in Washington, D.C.