Press Release: Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton Takes Part in "Writing Our History" panel at The Shakespeare Theatre Company
On Sunday, April 27th at 12:10pm, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, recipient of the 2012 Regional Theatre Tony Award®, will present the AsidesLIVE Symposium: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2. Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton will take part in the Writing Our History panel along with Robert Schenkkan, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of Broadway’s All the Way . STC’s Literary Associate and Production Dramaturg, Drew Lichtenberg, will moderate.
Morning refreshments will be served. Tickets are $20 regular, $15 ticket holders/subscribers, $7 student tickets.
Click here to purchase tickets and for more information.
AsidesLIVE Symposium: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 Agenda
10:00 a.m. - Welcome Remarks
Hannah Hessel Ratner, Shakespeare Theatre Company Audience Enrichment Manager.
10:10 a.m. – Between Two Fathers
Both plays follow the pull of influences on Prince Hal from his royal father and the ignoble Falstaff. This discussion will feature STC’s Prince Hal Matthew Amendt in conversation with Michael Kimmel, the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities and George Mason University professor Robert I Matz. Moderated by Hannah Hessel Ratner.
11:10 a.m. – Revisiting the Chimes at Midnight
In 1994, Michael Kahn edited and directed the Henry IV plays to create one evening of performance, featuring many of STC’s favorite performers. Three have returned, taking on new characters in our current repertory production. In this conversation Edward Gero, Ted Van Griethuysen and Craig Wallace reflect on approaching the plays then and now. Moderated by the Assistant Director of the 1994 production: STC’s Director of Education, Samantha Wyer.
12:10 p.m. – Writing Our History
Shakespeare wrote Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 approximately 200 years following the historical events depicted. As today’s playwrights approach American history, what can they learn from the Bard? A conversation with Robert Schenkkan, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of Broadway’s All the Way and local playwright, teacher and theatrical advocate Jaqueline E. Lawton. Moderated by STC’s Literary Associate and Production Dramaturg, Drew Lichtenberg.
Morning refreshments will be served. Tickets are $20 regular, $15 ticket holders/subscribers, $7 student tickets.
Click here to purchase tickets and for more information.
AsidesLIVE Symposium: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 Agenda
10:00 a.m. - Welcome Remarks
Hannah Hessel Ratner, Shakespeare Theatre Company Audience Enrichment Manager.
10:10 a.m. – Between Two Fathers
Both plays follow the pull of influences on Prince Hal from his royal father and the ignoble Falstaff. This discussion will feature STC’s Prince Hal Matthew Amendt in conversation with Michael Kimmel, the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities and George Mason University professor Robert I Matz. Moderated by Hannah Hessel Ratner.
11:10 a.m. – Revisiting the Chimes at Midnight
In 1994, Michael Kahn edited and directed the Henry IV plays to create one evening of performance, featuring many of STC’s favorite performers. Three have returned, taking on new characters in our current repertory production. In this conversation Edward Gero, Ted Van Griethuysen and Craig Wallace reflect on approaching the plays then and now. Moderated by the Assistant Director of the 1994 production: STC’s Director of Education, Samantha Wyer.
12:10 p.m. – Writing Our History
Shakespeare wrote Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 approximately 200 years following the historical events depicted. As today’s playwrights approach American history, what can they learn from the Bard? A conversation with Robert Schenkkan, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of Broadway’s All the Way and local playwright, teacher and theatrical advocate Jaqueline E. Lawton. Moderated by STC’s Literary Associate and Production Dramaturg, Drew Lichtenberg.
Over the past quarter of a century, the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., has become “the nation’s foremost Shakespeare company” (Wall Street Journal) and the “region’s most dynamic theatre” (The Washington Post), and received more Helen Hayes Awards for producing than any other theatre. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Michael Kahn, STC has grown from its residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library to the Lansburgh Theatre in 1992 to the opening of the brand new Sidney Harman Hall in 2007.
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 and a National New Play Network (NNPN) Playwright Alumna. A member of Arena Stage's Playwrights' Arena and the Dramatist Guild of America, Ms. Lawton currently resides in D.C.