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University of Connecticut African American Puppetry Festival: Feb 7-10

ATDS members in or near Connecticut might be interested in checking this out:

Living Objects: African American Puppetry Festival and Symposium

The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will celebrate the rich world of African American puppetry in the United States with a four-day series of performances, presentations, discussions, film screenings, and workshops on Feb. 7 to 10, 2019 in Hartford and Storrs.

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Laurence Senelick Wins Historic New England Prize

Congratulations to ATDS member Laurence Senelick for his recent 2018 Prize for Collecting Works on Paper from Historic New England. This was the 9th annual awarding of this prize \”to honor one or more collectors or dealers each year who have assembled or helped save significant collections related to New England or the nation as a whole.\”

Read more about the organization and prize here.

 

Cheryl Black

Cheryl Black appointed Curators’ Distinguished Professor

Congratulations to ATDS Member, and former President, Cheryl Black for being appointed a Curators\’ Distinguished Professor at the University  of Missouri in September 2018. As the University of Missouri points out, these are \”prestigious positions, and only outstanding scholars with established reputations will be considered for appointment.\” We can\’t think of anyone more suited for such an honor.

Call for Nominations to ATDS Frick Book Award

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ATDS seeks book nominations for the ATDS John Frick Book Award.

The American Theatre and Drama Society’s John W. Frick Book Award honors the best monograph published each year on theatre and performance of/in the Americas, recognizing that notions of “America” and the United States encompass migrations of peoples and cultures that overlap and influence one another. The award recipient will receive a cash prize of $200 and be recognized at the annual ATDS membership meeting at the 2019 ATHE Conference.

Evaluation and eligibility: Books will be evaluated on the basis of originality, critical rigor, and contribution to the field of American theatre and drama. Books must exhibit a copyright date of 2018. Edited collections, anthologies, and plays are not eligible.

Nominations: The author, the publisher, or any member of ATDS may submit nominations.

Deadline: February 1, 2019.

Submissions: Please submit one copy of the book to each of the three committee members:

Bill Demastes (Chair)
Department of English
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Noreen C. Barnes
15 Whittier Drive
Acton, MA  01720

Vivian Appler
Dept. of Theatre and Dance
College of Charleston
66 George St.
Charleston, SC 29424

If you’ve read a particularly good book that qualifies for this award, please email Bill Demastes (wdemast@lsu.edu) with your nomination, and the committee will secure review copies for the selection process. Thank You!

ATDS Members and Theatre Library Association Awards

Congratulations to Cindy Rosenthal! Her book, Ellen Stewart Presents: Fifty Years of La MaMa Experimental Theater published by the University of Michigan Press won the 2017 Theatre Library Association’s Special Jury Prize for the Freedly Award.

book cover for Ellen Stewart Presents

Also, congratulations to ATDS Members Odai Johnson and Heather Nathans for being 2017 Freedly Award Finalists for their books London in a Box: Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America (University of Iowa Press) and Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage (University of Michigan Press).

London in a Box Book CoverHideous Characters & Beautiful Pagans Book Cover

 

ATDS Member Mark Cosdon

This past May/June Mark led his ninth study travel course for Allegheny College students, focusing on colonies in Southern Italy founded by the Greeks in Campania, Basilicata, and Puglia. 

Mark Cosdon has also been promoted to full professor at Allegheny College.

Mark Cosdon and Allegheny College Students at the Metaponto Greek Theatre
Mark and Allegheny College Students Lament Their Fate

2018 ATDS Award Winners

ATDS 2018 Award Winners

 

Publication Subvention

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Emerging Scholar Award

Amy B. Huang, Brown University, for “Spectacular Secrecy: Privacy, Race and Nineteenth-Century Theatre.”

Vera Mowry Roberts Award

Sebastián Calderón Bentin, Assistant Professor, NYU Department of Drama, for “The Politics of Illusion: The Collapse of the Fujimori Regime in Peru.” Theatre Survey Jan. 2018.

Graduate Student Travel Award

Elyse Singer for “‘Ah, qué muchacha!’: Cross-dressing and Yiddish Identity in Molly Picon’s 1932 Latin American Tour,” accepted to the 5th International Conference on American Drama and Theatre: “Migrations in American Drama and Theater” at the Université de Lorraine.

Faculty Research/Travel Award

Dr. Sarah Orem, postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Smith College, for a research trip to Pennsylvania’s Pennhurst Haunted Asylum to support writing “The Asylum as Playground: Staging Bodily Difference in the Haunted Mental Hospital.”

Contingent Faculty (New) Award

Catherine Young, adjunct in NYU’s Drama Department, for both research in and travel to a conference in Boston—ATHE 2018—where she will present “Protesting Animal Presence and Performance on the Variety Stage” as part of the ATDS panel “Nationalism, Xenophobia, and White Supremacy on the U.S. Stage.”

John Frick Book Award

Heather Nathans, for Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage (University of Michigan Press, 2017).

Betty Jean Jones Award

Heather Nathans

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