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JACQUELINE E LAWTON |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Jacqueline E. 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 the author of ANNA K; BEND AND SWAY, DON'T BREAK; 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; 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 Univerisity), Shakespeare Theatre Company, Source Theatre Festival, Theater J, and Woolly Mammoth Theater Company. She has received commissions from Active Cultures Theater, Discovery Theater, the Hurston/Wright Foundation, National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of American History, Round House Theatre and Theater J. She is published in Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project (University of Texas Press). Lawton has been nominated for the Wendy Wasserstein Prize and a PONY Fellowship from the Lark 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. Lawton 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; the Ellsworth P. and Virginia Conkle Endowed Scholarship for Drama; the Jean McKenzie Schenkkan Endowed Scholarship in Playwriting; and the Morton Brown, Nellie Lea Brown, and Minelma Brown Lockwood Endowed Scholarship in Playwriting. She is a three-time semi-finalist for the Playwright's Center PlayLabs, and a SheWrites Festival finalist. Currently, she resides in D.C. and is working on two new plays, BROKEN WORDS/SEVERED GRACE and LOVE BROTHERS SERENADE.
Plays by Jacqueline E Lawton
Anna K | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #137761 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Anna K received a workshop production at in February 2009 under the direction of Shirley Serotsky at Round House Theatre as part of their Silver Spring Series. | |||||
Synopsis: | Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic take about love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Keeping with the rich, complex, and masterful cultural setting, Anna K is set in Paris during the 1920's, at a time when African-American artists fled America to the city of lights, love and opportunity and the DADA movement swept through Europe in response to WWI. This provocative and challenging adaptation follows Anna as she struggles to leave a loveless marriage and her young adoring son so that she might achieve a successful career and embrace the love of her life, only to face her painfully, tragic demise. It also follows Levin, an awkward, self-deprecating though highly skilled and talented African American DADA artist, who journeys to Paris in search of love, acceptance, and artistic recognition. | |||||
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Blood-bound and Tongue-tied | ||
| 1st Produced: | Strand Theater Company | 23 Mar 2012 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86367 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Blood-bound and Tongue-tied is an intriguing new look at the Oedipus Rex myth. A depression-era adaptation, Blood-bound and Tongue-tied follows the astonishing journey of Jocasta, a black woman who passes for white and shuns her entire past when she falls in love with, Laius, a successful white politician. With the birth of their son, Oedipus, Jocasta's lies instigate a wave of bloodshed and carnage on the African American community. Theatrically, Blood-bound and Tongue-tied demonstrates the detrimental effects that racism and self-hatred can have on the social mobility, psychological conditioning, and personal identification of African Americans in the United States. | |||||
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Deep Belly Beautiful | ||
| 1st Produced: | theHegira | Apr 2009 | ||||
Company: | theHegira | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86552 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Deep Belly Beautiful is alluring and sinister; a kind of fairy tale, more Brothers' Grimm than Disney. It is the story of grace achieved through sex, revenge, betrayal, addiction, and cannibalism. The play follows Anna Lee, a wood sculptress, who celebrates her sixth wedding anniversary with Luke, her unwilling, estranged alcoholic husband. Luke's fate is dependent upon the questionable skills of Fanny, a detective with a shilling past of her own; Elyse, his devoted and long-time lover; and Jack, his best friend, whose lack of morals and loyalty to no one may be the death of them all. | |||||
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Devil's Sweet Water, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #86551 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A deal with the Devil! Bullfighting! Belly dancing! Early '90s love ballads! Sex during an Air Raid! The Devil's Sweet Water is an innovative take on the story of Dr. Faustus. It is a provocative and poetic story about love, friendship, and patriotism in the U.S. and Lebanon post-9/11. The play follows Kamara in her search for love during the summer of 2006. This play highlights the controversial use of torture in interrogation and examines the terrifying and detrimental, though human, tendency to lump people with a shared ethnicity, language and religion into one category, despite their many different beliefs. | |||||
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Hampton Years, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #137762 | |||
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Notes: | The Hampton Years was commissioned and developed by Theater J as part of the Locally Grown Festival. | |||||
Synopsis: | The Hampton Years explores the relationship between art professor Viktor Lowenfeld and his students, John Biggers and Samella Lewis. Lowenfeld joined the Hampton Institute in Virginia in 1939 as assistant professor of Industrial Arts and studio art teacher. He was later appointed as Chairman of the Art Department and in 1945, he was named curator of the distinguished collection of Black African Art at the Hampton Institute. Burgeoning artist John Biggers, who went on to become an internationally acclaimed painter, sculptor, teacher and philosopher, was his student. As was Samella Lewis, artist, printmaker and educator, with whom Lowenfeld had a contentious, but respectful relationship. The Hampton Years examines the impact of World War II on Jewish immigrants living in the United States and their role in shaping the lives and careers of African American students in the segregated south. | |||||
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Love Brothers Serenade | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #137763 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Love Brothers Serenade received a reading at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival and at Howard University's Theater Arts Department. | |||||
Synopsis: | Love Brothers Serenade, a hiphop infused drama, follows Reynaldo and Ricardo as they struggle for survival and fight to forge their own identities in DC's inner city ghettos. As these young men come of age, they find comfort, security, and family in the street gangs, drug deals, and violence that surrounds them. Adapted from Giuseppe Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, this play investigates the honor code, loyalty, and rites of passage at the heart of this volatile community. Love Brothers Serenade reveals that the bond of brotherhood has just as much strength to destroy as it does to unite. | |||||
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Mad Breed | ||
| 1st Produced: | Active Cultures, Joe's Movement Emporium, 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, MD | 04 May 2008 | ||||
Company: | Active Cultures Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61976 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | Mad Breed is a historical comedy about a teenaged John Wilkes Booth, an African American actress on the run, and a whole barnyard full of Shakespeare. On the eve of their parents' wedding, the offbeat teenaged siblings of John Wilkes Booth decide to put on a play. All is going well until Adah Francois, an African American freewoman with Shakespearean dreams, arrives and the complications begin. Experience the eccentricity, brilliance and over-the-top sibling rivalry of one of Maryland's most notorious families one glorious summer evening on a family farm in Belair, Maryland. | |||||
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