Press Release: Jacqueline E. Lawton Discusses Life as a Playwright at Round House Theatre
On Tuesday, September 25th, Jacqueline E. Lawton will join playwrights Bari Biern and Stephen Spotswood in a panel discussion about the Life of a Playwright as part of Round House Theatre's Heyday Players fall master class series.
The Heyday Players is a senior theatre program dedicated to enriching the lives of senior citizens by channeling their tremendous spirit, talent, and life experience into theatrical performance and master classes. Composed entirely of older adults, participates are involved in the selection, direction, rehearsal, and staged-reading performance of theatrical work at a variety of seniors groups and community centers in Montgomery County and the metro DC area.
Heyday Players troupe takes part in master classes in the fall that continue to develop their performance skills. In January, they begin rehearsals and they will perform primarily in May of 2013. This year’s performance will be themed on Campfire Stories.
To join the Heyday Players troupe, or book a performance at your location, contact the Education Center at 301.585.1225 or e-mail [email protected].
The Heyday Players is a senior theatre program dedicated to enriching the lives of senior citizens by channeling their tremendous spirit, talent, and life experience into theatrical performance and master classes. Composed entirely of older adults, participates are involved in the selection, direction, rehearsal, and staged-reading performance of theatrical work at a variety of seniors groups and community centers in Montgomery County and the metro DC area.
Heyday Players troupe takes part in master classes in the fall that continue to develop their performance skills. In January, they begin rehearsals and they will perform primarily in May of 2013. This year’s performance will be themed on Campfire Stories.
To join the Heyday Players troupe, or book a performance at your location, contact the Education Center at 301.585.1225 or e-mail [email protected].
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.