By: Mary Grace Donaldson
Posted In: News
Photo credit: Jacqueline Lawler
Jacqueline Lawler shares the smile of a winner.
Jacqueline Lawler’s room is not only buzzing with the jabber of her residents, who are frequent visitors. Enter her room and you will find a homemade stuffed animal of Perry the Platypus from the Disney Channel series “Phineas and Ferb.” Shoe boxes are scattered on the floor. Sprawled across her bed is her co-Resident Assistant (RA), C.J. Holden, who had been filling in on RA duty for Lawler while she was at rehearsal for “Touch,” the upcoming Stagefright Theatre Company performance. Posters of The Doors and Led Zepplin hang over her bed, in addition to a “Phineas and Ferb” poster that hangs proudly next to her desk amongst a multitude of post-it notes. Also over her bed are a crucifix and a portrait of the Mother Mary. An open tub of Nutella sits on her desk. In the corner next to her bed resides a bookshelf, indicative of a literature person, with classics from the likes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” There is no television set to be seen in Lawler’s room.
It is obvious from the variety of decorations and the enthusiasm displayed by her residents that Lawler is a very interesting and compassionate human being. In addition to directing “Touch,” working at Allie’s Donuts in North Kingstown on the weekends, working to complete a double major in secondary education and English, a minor in theater, studying as a Pell scholar and working for the first time as an RA this year, Lawler has been awarded the National Dramaturgy Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), Section 1A.
