From Page to Stage: Locomotion at the Kennedy Center
Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson talks about the creation and adaptation of her book, Locomotion, for the stage.
Jacqueline Woodson: Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence
èAVis proud to have author Jacqueline Woodson, winner of the Newbery Honor, National Book Award, Coretta Scott King Award, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, as our Education Artist-in-Residence. In her second joyous season, Jacqueline will continue to introduce her inspiring characters and passionate storytelling to Kennedy Center stages. Highlights of Jacqueline’s residency for the 2022-2023 season include three world premiere Kennedy Center commissions: The Day You Begin, a poignant and heartening musical about finding the courage to connect; Each Kindness, a musical exploration of Jacqueline’s picture book by acclaimed music group Rootstock Republic that conveys an important anti-bullying message; and This is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration, a National Symphony Orchestra Family Concert inspired by Jacqueline’s moving picture book full of heart, hope, and reflection. Explore our featured resources focusing on Jacqueline's work.
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About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Woodson is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, which also received the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award and a Sibert Honor. She also wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist.
She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include Before the Ever After, New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me; The Other Side; Each Kindness; Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster; and Miracle’s Boys, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award.
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