Member News: Theatre Annual
Welcome to Peter Reed, the new lead Editor of Theatre Annual, and to Michael Lueger, the new Book Review Editor! Consider submitting your work for the 2024 issue: https://www.atds.org/theatre-annual-2024/.
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Member News: JADT
Welcome to the incoming editors of JADT: ATDS Executive Board Member Bess Rowen and Benjamin Gillespie! Check out the latest issue of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, which features articles by ATDS Secretary Meredith Conti and past ATDS President Cheryl Black: https://www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt
Member News: Esther Kim Lee and Donatella Galella
Congratulations to Esther Kim Lee and ATDS President Donatella Galella for their inclusion in the new PBS Artbound Documentary East West Players: A Home on Stage.
“East West Players theatre company has been a home for Asian American artists such as George Takei, John Cho, Daniel Dae Kim, James Hong and many others featured in this documentary. Through candid conversations about the creative process, the film chronicles the 58-year history of the longest running ethnic theatre in the United States, founded 1965 by a group of rebellious Asian American actors.”
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ATDS Winners at ASTR
Congratulations to ATDS officers and members for winning awards and fellowships from the American Society for Theatre Research!
Collaborative Research Award – Vivian Appler and Christiana Molldrem Harkulich for their project “Waiting for Lady Phoenix: An Annotation of ‘A Piece of Play’ by Margaret Cavendish
Research Fellowship – Samuel Yates for completion of “‘Mend your Speech’: Elizabeth Inchbald, Communication Disorder, and the Remaking of Theatre History”
Gerald Kahan Scholar’s Prize Honorable Mention – Amy B. Huang for “Alongside Slavery’s Asides: Reverberations of Edward Young’s The Revenge.” Theatre Survey, Volume 63, Issue 1, (2022)
Sally Banes Publication Prize – Ariel Nereson for “Dancing Plague: Archives of Celebration and Care in Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane’s Secret Pastures.” Theatre Journal, 74.4, (2022)
Distinguished Scholar Award – Esther Kim Lee, Frances Hill Fox Professor of Theater Studies, Duke University
Member News – Alexis Riley
ATDS Memember Alexis Riley was recently selected for the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan. Below is an excerpt from the press release, but you can find the full press release here.
As a PPFP fellow, her archival research will examine how disabled people at Oregon State Hospital in the postwar era mobilized dance criticism to document and contest the conditions of their confinement.
Her use of performance research methods offers new avenues to historians of medical incarceration grappling with the limits of state hospital archives, while uncovering minoritarian performance cultures underrepresented in theater, dance and performance studies.
The research she conducts also will form the basis of a devised performance presented at the end of her tenure. Alexis will work with Petra Kuppers in SMTD’s Department of Theatre and Drama.
Member News – Mark Cosdon
Mark Cosdon directed a Broadway Musical Revue with students at Sicily’s University of Palermo. He continues as Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Allegheny College and as managing director of the college’s Playshop Theatre. This past February, Cosdon directed Proof in the Playshop Theatre and in September 2021 Cosdon remounted Bikeman, Peabody-winning journalist Tom Flynn’s rumination on September 11. In May/June Cosdon led his tenth travel course to Italy, a month-long investigation into renaissance art, culture, and theatricality. As a former president of the American Theatre and Drama Society, Cosdon joined past-presidents at ATHE-Detroit in reflecting on the organization’s 35th anniversary. This coming fall, Cosdon will return to the University of Palermo for a semester-long teaching appointment.
Member News – Donatella Galella
Donatella Galella received the 2022-2023 Visiting Research Fellowship from the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA. She is working on a book about how yellowface persists in twenty-first century musical theatre, and how Asian Americans labor to counter yellowface.
Member News – Dorothy Chansky
Dorothy Chansky was awarded a fellowship by the Penn State Humanities Institute for the 2021-22 academic year. She is completing a book on representations of dementia on the American stage of the past century that will be published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Member News – Mark Cosdon
Mark Cosdon recently returned from Sicily where he directed a Broadway Musical Revue with students from the University of Palermo. He joined Mimesis International Publishing’s editorial board for the book series ““Drammaturgie e drammatica.” Cosdon continues as Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Allegheny College. This past year at Allegheny, Cosdon directed Karen Zacarías’s Native Gardens and remounted his 9-11 themed production Bikeman.
JADT special issue “Milestones in Black Theatre” is now available
Congratulations to Nicole Hodges Persley and Heather S. Nathans on their special issue of The Journal of American Drama and Theatre: “Milestones in Black Theatre.”
