Press Release: Jacqueline E. Lawton to present on panel at ATHE's annual conference
The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) presents their 2012 annual conference: Performance as/is Civic Engagement: Advocate, Collaborate, Educate.
On Sunday, August 5, 2012 at 11:30am, playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton will discuss her play, The Hampton Years, on a panel entitled: Staging Strife and Solidarity: Black-Jewish Relations in American Drama at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) annual conference.
Organized and moderated by Faedra Chatard Carpenter (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland) as well as Drew Barker and LaRonika Thomas (Doctoral Candidates, University of Maryland). Additional panelists include James M. SoRelle (Professor of History, Baylor University), Heather S. Nathans (Professor of Theatre, University of Maryland), Ari Roth (Artistic Director, Theater J), Kwame Kwei-Armah (Artistic Director, Centerstage), and Gavin Witt (Associate Artistic Director, CenterStage).
To learn more about ATHE's mission, vision, and goals follow this link: www.athe.org.
On Sunday, August 5, 2012 at 11:30am, playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton will discuss her play, The Hampton Years, on a panel entitled: Staging Strife and Solidarity: Black-Jewish Relations in American Drama at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) annual conference.
Organized and moderated by Faedra Chatard Carpenter (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland) as well as Drew Barker and LaRonika Thomas (Doctoral Candidates, University of Maryland). Additional panelists include James M. SoRelle (Professor of History, Baylor University), Heather S. Nathans (Professor of Theatre, University of Maryland), Ari Roth (Artistic Director, Theater J), Kwame Kwei-Armah (Artistic Director, Centerstage), and Gavin Witt (Associate Artistic Director, CenterStage).
To learn more about ATHE's mission, vision, and goals follow this link: www.athe.org.
JACQUELINE E. LAWTON received her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin (Hook 'em Horns!), where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. She participated in the Kennedy Center’s Playwrights’ Intensive (2002) and World Interplay (2003). She is the author of Anna K; Blood-bound and Tongue-tied; Deep Belly Beautiful; The Devil’s Sweet Water; Ira Aldridge: the African Roscius; Lions of Industry, Mothers of Invention; Love Brothers Serenade, and Mad Breed. 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). Lawton is a 2012 TCG Nathan Cummings Young Leaders of Color award recipient. She has been nominated for the Wendy Wasserstein Prize and a PONY Fellowship from the Lark New Play Development Center. She was named one of 30 of the nation's leading black playwrights by Arena Stage’s American Voices New Play Institute. Since 2010, Lawton has served on Round House Theatre's Artists' Roundtable. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including two Young Artist Program Grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for Playwriting. She resides in Washington, D.C.
