ATDS Award Winners 2019
ATDS Award Winners: 2019
Emerging Scholar Award
Julia Moriarty of Wayne State University for “Two Sides of the Same Coin: How Mother and Non-Mother Characters Critique and Support Patriarchal Systems in Two Plays.”)
Graduate Student Travel Award
Shelby Brewster (University of Pittsburgh), who will use the prize to support travel to the Center for Land Use Interpretation located in Los Angeles, California, where she anticipates a week of research for her dissertation, \”Planetary Praxis: Performance Under Climate Crisis.\”
Contingent Faculty Award
Angela Iannone, U of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Travel support: Conference attendance at the Margolis Method International Conference (June 28-30, 2019, NYC) where Angela will deliver her essay, \”Edwin Booth’s Blocking Notes and Evidence of Connections to the Art of Physical Characterizations and Current Supported Gesture Studies in the Margolis Method.”
Research support: While in NYC, Angela will oversee the taking of professional photographs of tintypes, daguerreotypes, and manuscript documents in the archives of The Hampden/Booth Library (located at The Players, NYC), for publication submission with the transcribed document written by the daughter of 19th Century American Shakespearean, Lawrence Barrett (Edwin Booth’s friend and theatrical partner).
Publication Subvention Award
Donatella Galella for her book America in the Round; Captiol, Race, and Nation at Washington, DC’s Arena Stage, published by University of Iowa Press
Faculty Research/Travel Award
Ariel Nereson, who will use the award to support travel to ASTR, where she will give a plenary talk entitled “A Genius Public: Site-Specific Dance at the University of Virginia and the Presence of the Past.”
The Vera Mowry Roberts Award
Donatella Galella for “Feeling Yellow: Responding to Contemporary Yellowface in Musical Performance,” published in The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism(Spring 2018).
The John Frick Award
Shane Vogel of Indiana University Bloomington for Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze (University of Chicago Press, 2018).
Betty Jean Jones Award
Faedra Chatard Carpenter, University of Maryland
Bruce McConachie, University of Pittsburgh