Juanita Rockwell

Awards Received

Individual Artist

Prior to 2012

About the Artist

Juanita Rockwell is a writer/director with over 100 projects in theatre, opera, radio, multimedia, puppetry, song and site-specific performance produced in a over a dozen cities worldwide. She was founding director of Towson University’s experimentally-focused Theatre MFA, and as artistic director of Company One Theater in Hartford, directed dozens of premieres by leading innovative playwrights of the 90s. Her work explores different ways of structuring narrative and how that changes us, and how shifting relationships of sung and spoken text affect character and story. She’s received support from Fulbright; National Endowment for the Arts; and various states, cities and foundations including a Maryland State Individual Artist Award in Playwriting, a 2015 Baltimore Rubys Artist Project grant and a 2016 Scientific Delirium Madness Residency at Djerassi.

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