Press Release: Jacqueline E. Lawton Joins Dance Exchange for 2014 Summer Institute
From July 11th to 20th, Dance Exchange will host a 10-day Summer Institute intensive. Playwright and dramaturg Jacqueline E. Lawton joins Dance Exchange's Founder Liz Lerman, current Artistic Director Cassie Meador, and choreographer and community organizer Paloma McGregor. Together, they will engage in inquiry, generative dialogue, moving and making practices that yield strategies for advancing racial equity through the arts.
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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; Noms de Guerre; and Our Man Beverly Snow. Ms. Lawton received her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. She is a 2012 TCG Young Leaders of Color award recipient, National New Play Network (NNPN) Playwright Alum, and member of Arena Stage's Playwrights' Arena. She is also a proud member of the Dramatist Guild of America.
