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<br /> outstanding talent and shared vision for this exciting new endeavor,
<br /> in collaboration with our playwright.
<br /> Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton is a PlayMakers company member
<br /> and resident dramaturg as well as a Professor in the Department of
<br /> Dramatic Art, UNC-CH. She was named one of 30 of the nation's
<br /> leading black playwrights by Arena Stage's American Voices New
<br /> Play Institute. Her plays include Anna K; Blood-bound and Tongue-
<br /> tied; Deep Belly Beautiful; The Devil's Sweet Water; The Hampton
<br /> Years; Intelligence; Love Brothers Serenade (semi-finalist, Eugene
<br /> O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference); Mad
<br /> Breed; Noms de Guerre. She has worked as a dramaturg and
<br /> research consultant at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival
<br /> of New American Plays, Arden Theater, Arena Stage, Ensemble
<br /> Studio Theater, Ford's Theatre, Horizons Theater, Interact Theatre,
<br /> Kennedy Center VSA Program, Round House Theatre, Theater J,
<br /> Virginia Stage Company and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
<br /> Director Jules Odendahl-James is a theater artist/scholar based in
<br /> the Triangle, North Carolina.
<br /> She has been the Resident Dramaturg and a Visiting Lecturer in the
<br /> Department of Theater Studies at Duke University since 2011. From
<br /> 2010-2012 she was the Coordinating Director of Duke's Performance
<br /> and Embodied Research Colloquium (PERC). She is the advisor for
<br /> the Me Too Monologues, serves on the Steering Committee for The
<br /> Process Series, a new works in development unit at UNC-CH's
<br /> Institute for Arts and Humanities, is a founding member of the Ladies
<br /> of the Triangle Theater, and a Board Member of HiddenVoices. She
<br /> holds a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of North
<br /> Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA in Directing from the University of
<br /> Texas at Austin.
<br /> Actress Kathryn Hunter-Williams has been a PlayMakers company
<br /> member for over 20 years. Recent highlights include directing No
<br /> Fear & Blues Long Gone and Count (co-production with
<br /> HiddenVoices), and performing in in Julius Caesar, Everybody, Life of
<br /> Galileo, Skeleton Crew, Leaving Eden, Tartuffe, Dot, and Intimate
<br /> Apparel, among others. Kathryn is on the faculty of the Department
<br /> of Dramatic Art, UNC-CH, serves as Company Artistic Associate for
<br /> PlayMakers, and is Associate Director of HiddenVoices, a non-profit
<br /> organization dedicated to bringing life changing stories into a public
<br /> forum.
<br /> Lighting Designer Kathy A. Perkins is the recipient of such design
<br /> awards as NAACP Image Award, Chicago's Black Theatre Alliance,
<br /> and was a nominee for the L.A. Ovation Award and New York's
<br /> Audelco. She has designed lighting for productions throughout the
<br /> U.S. at such regional theatres/venues as American Conservatory
<br /> Theatre, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory, Seattle Repertory, St.
<br /> Louis Black Repertory, Alliance, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Congo
<br /> Square, Manhattan Theatre Club, Alabama Shakespeare, Brooklyn
<br /> Academy of Music (BAM), New Federal Theatre, Mark Taper, Writers
<br /> Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Los Angeles Theatre Center,
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