ATDS Graduate Student Award – Revised
New deadline: April 15
Additional change: this will be good for either conference travel or research.
See Awards page for more information.
News
William Inge Theater Festival to postpone celebration until spring 2021
Please be aware of this postponement.
ATDS Sponsored Tufts Publication Development Forum
ATDS Sponsored Publication Development Forum at Tufts University
From Heather S. Nathans:
A special thanks to our guest speakers, Robin Bernstein, Andrew Sofer, Harvey Young, and Matthew Wittmann—it was wonderful to hear your insights into the publication process. Barbara Wallace Grossman, Kareem Khubchandani, Lily Mengesha, Noe Montez, and Andrew Sofer joined me in in reading drafts of proposals, chapters, and manuscripts to offer feedback in one-on-one sessions. The biggest thanks are due to our participants for sharing their research—it was such a pleasure to learn more about all the exciting new work happening in Theatre and Performance Studies!
Theatre Annual Seeking Book Review Editor
Theatre Annual, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Theatre and Drama Society, seeks applications for the position of Book Review Editor.
The Book Review Editor is responsible for maintaining up-to-date lists of books available for review; fielding inquiries for reviews; commissioning reviews; editing reviews; coordinating with journal editor and press; meeting deadlines for publication; and establishing and maintaining relationships with book publishers.
The successful applicant will join the editorial team as associate Book Review Editor in November 2019 for the 2020 issue. The Book Review Editor’s term will begin in spring 2020, for the 2021 issue. The term is three years, with possibility for renewal. Though the application process is open to all interested individuals, it is expected that the Book Review Editor will maintain an ATDS membership in good standing for the duration of their term.
Applicants should send a CV and a brief statement of interest addressing relevant experience to Hillary Miller (hillary.miller@qc.cuny.edu), chair of the review committee and by October 31, 2019.
Theatre Annual is the oldest theatre periodical continuously published in the United States. It is dedicated to examining theatre and performance of the Americas. We construe “America” broadly to include North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean Islands. Articles may treat work in these geographic areas or work from these areas that is presented elsewhere in the world. We welcome articles on the history and ethnography of performance, drawing from such areas as theatre studies, performance studies, popular culture, music, anthropology, dance, communication, philosophy, folklore, history, and areas of interest that cross disciplinary lines.
Please find additional information on the Theatre Annual website: https://theatreannual.atds.org.
Please direct questions to hillary.miller@qc.cuny.edu.
Thank you for your interest in Theatre Annual!
Review committee:
Mark Cosdon, Co-chair, ATDS Editorial Committee
Hillary Miller, Co-chair, ATDS Editorial Committee
Jonathan Lee Chambers, ATDS Editorial Committee
Derek Miller, ATDS Editorial Committee
Ilka Saal, editor, Theatre Annual
Ann Folino White, incoming editor (2020), Theatre Annual
Meredith Conti, book review editor, Theatre Annual
Theatre Survey Book Review Editor Position
Theatre Survey Book Review Editor
Applications (or nominations) are invited for the position of Book Review Editor for Theatre Survey, which is published by Cambridge University Press under the auspices of the American Society for Theatre Research. The new Book Review Editor will serve for three years with an official start date of January 1, 2020. The promise of some institutional support, such as aid for a graduate assistant, would be an asset. The letter of application should describe the applicant’s qualifications and include some description of potential institutional support. The application, the C.V., and the names of three people supporting the application should be sent by 15 September 2019 as email attachments to:
Esther Kim Lee, Chair
ASTR Vice President for Publications
esther.k.lee@duke.edu
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
ATDS at ATHE Information
Please see the ATDS home page for links to the 2018 membership meeting minutes as well as a schedule of co-sponsored panels at this year\’s ATHE.
TheTheatreTimes.com Launches Performap.com
TheTheatreTimes.com Launches Performap.com
The award-winning global theatre portal TheTheatreTimes.com launches Performap.com, anInteractive Digital Map of Global Theatre Festivals. With hundreds of festivals browsable and searchable by festival location, type, and date, Performap is the first extensive digital index of its kind in the field. It is built expressly for artists, audiences, critics, scholars, festival organizers, curators, and presenters from around the world. Performap also includes reports written by local writers and traveling reporters published by TheTheatreTimes.com.
Festivals of theatre and performance are hotbeds of creativity, experimentation, cross-pollination, andvirtuosity; they’re platforms for artists at the forefront of their fields; and, because of the rapid timelinesand compact scales of festival production, they’re also stunning snapshots of the field’s acutest aches,anxieties, and addictions. Designed to drive online traffic to the individual festival websites, Performapis a highly visible and reliable node in the festival ecosystem—not a destination but a well-trodden intersection. At the same time, Performap also enables quantitative analysis of that very industry. Its primary purpose is to facilitate real-time access to festivals worldwide, ideally by increasing public awareness and ticket sales, but it also articulates the contours of festival circuitry through the collection and organization of measurable data. This data is open access, so that anyone has permission to use its digital archive, run quantitative analyses, and create visualizations, maps, and models of its contents. Performap is an invaluable resource for scholastic, journalistic, and management research on theatre and performance festivals worldwide. Scholars specializing in theatre and performance studies, anthropology, sociology, economics, and urban planning will find it particularly attractive.
TheTheatreTimes.com is a global theatre portal. Since its launch in November 2016, TheTheatreTimes.com has published over 3,000 articles covering theatre in 90 countries and regions. With 30 thematic sections, more than 150 Regional Managing Editors, over 60 media partners around the world, and 60,000+ followers on social media, we have grown to be the most far-reaching and comprehensive global theatre portal today.
Performap was developed with funding from the Yale Digital Humanities Lab and a Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of Americas (LMDA) Innovation Grant.
Member update – Mark Cosdon
This past April Mark Cosdon directed Urinetown the Musical at Allegheny College, where he teaches courses in theatre history, literature, and criticism. In May/June, Cosdon led his 10th study/travel course to Italy, an interdisciplinary exploration grounded in Italian language and culture, the Renaissance, and the country\’s evolving contemporary landscape. Cosdon spent a week in residence at Sicily\’s University of Palermo, lecturing on the contemporary American musical. He will return to the University of Palermo in 2020 to continue teaching.
Applications/Nominations for Book Review Editor for Theatre Survey
Book Review Editor
Applications (or nominations) are invited for the position of Book Review Editor for Theatre Survey, which is published by Cambridge University Press under the auspices of the American Society for Theatre Research. The new Book Review Editor will serve for three years with an official start date of January 1, 2020. The promise of some institutional support, such as aid for a graduate assistant, would be an asset. The letter of application should describe the applicant’s qualifications and include some description of potential institutional support. The application, the C.V., and the names of three people supporting the application should be sent by 15 September 2019 as email attachments to:
Esther Kim Lee, Chair
ASTR Vice President for Publications
esther.k.lee@duke.edu