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XIX: New play development with Jacqueline E. Lawton, JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell, Jules Odendahl-James Artist Soapbox * Audio fiction + Creative Process
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The first of two episodes featuring the work of https://www.jacquelinelawton.com (Jacqueline E. Lawton), playwright, dramaturg, producer, and advocate for Access, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the American Theatre.
Jacqueline E. Lawton, photo by Jason Hornick
Along with director JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell and dramaturg Jules Odendahl-James, you’ll hear Jacqueline E. Lawton discuss her new play XIX. XIX was commissioned by the https://www.womenstheatrefestival.com (Women’s Theatre Festival) in celebration and reckoning with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. XIX is a socio-political drama following a multi-racial family who find themselves in the middle of the fight for equality and divided over the right to vote. XIX received a public sharing through the UNC Process Series in February 2020; there will be a staged reading at WTF 2020 on July 11th at 7:30 pm.
The wonderful guest trio of Jacqueline, JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell and Jules Odendahl-James dig into playwriting topics such as translating a historical event into a contemporary piece, deciding what story to tell and who should be the center of the story, the development process and the roles of the director, dramaturg and playwright and much more.
[This podcast interview was recorded on May 15, 2020. The introduction was recorded on June 6, 2020.]
L-R: JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell, Jacqueline E. Lawton, Jules Odendahl-James
BIOS
https://www.jacquelinelawton.com (Jacqueline E. Lawton) is a playwright, dramaturg, producer, and advocate for Access, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the American Theatre. Her produced plays include: Blood-bound and Tongue-tied; The Hampton Years; Intelligence; Mad Breed; and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 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. She is also Dramatist Guild’s Regional Representative for North Carolina.
https://www.jhbdirectedit.com (JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell) (she/her/hers) is a freelance director and producer. She is the Founding Artistic Director of Black Ops Theatre Company, lead curator for the Bull City Black Theatre Festival in Durham, NC, and a founding company member of Bulldog Ensemble Theatre. A 2018 Indy Arts Award winner, JaMeeka is a 2019-20 grant recipient from both the Manbites Dog Theater Fund and from the Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists program. She also served as a 2019 theatre panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and for the North Carolina Arts Council. An alumnus of The Lark Play Development Center Apprenticeship program, JaMeeka has been an Assistant Director with The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Playmakers Repertory, and more recently, an Associate Director with Duke Performances at Duke University. Her directing work has appeared at Northern Stage in Vermont, Shakespeare in Detroit, Classic Stage in NYC, Manbites Dog Theatre in Durham, The Department of Theatre at Dartmouth College, Duke University’s Department of Theatre Studies, and the National Black Theatre Festival. https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jhbdirectedit.comanddata=02%7C01%7CMilena.D.Zuccotti%40dartmouth.edu%7C0d4118c10b514074210708d76d4facc5%7C995b093648d640e5a31ebf689ec9446f%7C0%7C0%7C637098061680952778andsdata=M2%2B5U4w%2B9MVN4mOVIX8evZBh91nZ1aLXIjToaYr0N2Y%3Dandreserved=0 (www.jhbdirectedit.com)
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The first of two episodes featuring the work of https://www.jacquelinelawton.com (Jacqueline E. Lawton), playwright, dramaturg, producer, and advocate for Access, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the American Theatre.
Jacqueline E. Lawton, photo by Jason Hornick
Along with director JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell and dramaturg Jules Odendahl-James, you’ll hear Jacqueline E. Lawton discuss her new play XIX. XIX was commissioned by the https://www.womenstheatrefestival.com (Women’s Theatre Festival) in celebration and reckoning with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. XIX is a socio-political drama following a multi-racial family who find themselves in the middle of the fight for equality and divided over the right to vote. XIX received a public sharing through the UNC Process Series in February 2020; there will be a staged reading at WTF 2020 on July 11th at 7:30 pm.
The wonderful guest trio of Jacqueline, JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell and Jules Odendahl-James dig into playwriting topics such as translating a historical event into a contemporary piece, deciding what story to tell and who should be the center of the story, the development process and the roles of the director, dramaturg and playwright and much more.
[This podcast interview was recorded on May 15, 2020. The introduction was recorded on June 6, 2020.]
L-R: JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell, Jacqueline E. Lawton, Jules Odendahl-James
BIOS
https://www.jacquelinelawton.com (Jacqueline E. Lawton) is a playwright, dramaturg, producer, and advocate for Access, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the American Theatre. Her produced plays include: Blood-bound and Tongue-tied; The Hampton Years; Intelligence; Mad Breed; and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 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. She is also Dramatist Guild’s Regional Representative for North Carolina.
https://www.jhbdirectedit.com (JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell) (she/her/hers) is a freelance director and producer. She is the Founding Artistic Director of Black Ops Theatre Company, lead curator for the Bull City Black Theatre Festival in Durham, NC, and a founding company member of Bulldog Ensemble Theatre. A 2018 Indy Arts Award winner, JaMeeka is a 2019-20 grant recipient from both the Manbites Dog Theater Fund and from the Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists program. She also served as a 2019 theatre panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and for the North Carolina Arts Council. An alumnus of The Lark Play Development Center Apprenticeship program, JaMeeka has been an Assistant Director with The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Playmakers Repertory, and more recently, an Associate Director with Duke Performances at Duke University. Her directing work has appeared at Northern Stage in Vermont, Shakespeare in Detroit, Classic Stage in NYC, Manbites Dog Theatre in Durham, The Department of Theatre at Dartmouth College, Duke University’s Department of Theatre Studies, and the National Black Theatre Festival. https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jhbdirectedit.comanddata=02%7C01%7CMilena.D.Zuccotti%40dartmouth.edu%7C0d4118c10b514074210708d76d4facc5%7C995b093648d640e5a31ebf689ec9446f%7C0%7C0%7C637098061680952778andsdata=M2%2B5U4w%2B9MVN4mOVIX8evZBh91nZ1aLXIjToaYr0N2Y%3Dandreserved=0 (www.jhbdirectedit.com)
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