Theatre Professor Directs Reading at Playmakers Rep

Assistant Professor of Theatre Kaja Dunn was a director for the PlayMakers Repertory Company’s “Making Tracks” new play festival. The festival, April 13-15, featured readings of four new plays.

Dunn directed the play Noms de Guerre by Jacqueline E. Lawton, a PlayMakers’ company member as well as a professor in the Department of Dramatic Art at UNC-Chapel Hill. Lawton, a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, was named one of 30 of the nation’s leading black playwrights by Arena Stage’s American Voices New Play Institute.

PlayMakers Repertory Company is the LORT-D professional theatre company in residence at UNC-Chapel Hill.