2020 ATDS Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2020 American Theatre and Drama Society award winners!

Betty Jean Jones Award:  Dr. Brenda Murphy

Named for Betty Jean Jones, who was a highly respected and admired American Theatre and Drama teacher, this award honors individuals who have achieved excellence as college/university teachers and/or scholars and have served as mentors in the profession. It is our organization’s highest honor. Congratulations Dr. Murphy!

John  W. Frick Book Award: Dr. Julie Burelle

Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Quebec (Northwestern University Press)

Vera Mowry Roberts Award: Dr. Maya Cantu

“Beyond the Rue Pigalle: Recovering Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith as ‘Muse,’ Mentor and Maker of Transatlantic Musical Theatre,” Reframing the Musical: Race, Culture and Identity (ed. Sarah Whitfield), published by Red Globe Press/Springer Nature Ltd

Faculty Travel/Research Award: Dr. Dan Venning

“Eugene O’Neill’s First Pulitzer Prizes: A Centenary Research Project”–Archival Research: Tao House,

Contingent Faculty Travel/Research Award:  Dr. Danielle Rosvally

“Value and Worth: Shakespeare, Social Economies, and National Identity in New York’s Nineteenth Century” –archival research at The Hargrett Rare Books & Manuscripts Library at the University of Georgia. 

Publication Subvention Award: Dr. Dani Snyder-Young

“Privileged Spectatorship: Theatrical Interventions in White Supremacy,” to be published by Northwestern University Press –photo permissions

Graduate Student Travel/Research Award: Alexis Riley

“Patient Acts: Performance, Site, and the Making of Mad Memory”–research 

Emerging Scholars Award: Steven D. Cullen

“An Ex-cellent Disaster: Seeking Utopia Within the Dystopia of Mr. Burns” (to be presented at ATHE, day/time TBD)