Monday Night Guest Speaker Series

Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. Admission: Free.

June 24 Guest Speaker: Jacqueline E. Lawton, playwright, dramaturg, producer, advocate

Lawton is an advocate for access, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the American Theatre, and the Dramatist Guild of America regional representative for North Carolina. Her plays include: Among These Wild Things , Anna K; Blackbirds; Blood-bound and Tongue-tied; Deep Belly Beautiful; The Devil’s Sweet Water; The Hampton Years; The Inferior Sex, Intelligence; Love Brothers Serenade; Mad Breed; and Noms de Guerre . Lawton received her M.F.A. 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 an alum of National New Play Network Playwright, Arena Stage’s Playwrights’ Arena, and Center Stage’s Playwrights Collective. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the department of dramatic art at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a dramaturg for PlayMakers Repertory Company.