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.”
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.”
James Fisher’s The Theatre of Tony Kushner is getting an updated and expanded second edition to be released in 2021.
In addition to receiving the 2007 Betty Jean Jones award from ATDS, James Fisher was also recently named a Fellow of American Theatre, College of Fellows of the American Theatre (2019) and awarded the Mary Settle Sharp Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro in 2018. He is the co-author, along with Felicia Hardison Londré, of The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater: Modernism, as well as the author of The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings.
Rutherford and Son, A Man and Some Women, The Stepmother
Edited by J. Ellen Gainor
414 pages | $19.95 print | $13.95 eBook
This edition provides important historical contexts for Sowerby’s vivid domestic dramas that explore timely questions of capitalism, feminism, and personal freedom.
The American Theatre and Drama Society welcomes nominations for these governing body positions:
For more information about the responsibilities of these roles, visit https://www.atds.org/about/.
The nominations committee consists of Donatella Galella (chair), Andrew Gibb, Heather Nathans, Ariel Nereson, and Diego Villada. They will prepare a slate of candidates, but any ATDS member can nominate themselves, another member, or even non-members with the understanding that they would become members if elected. Keep in mind that ATDS is currently offering pay-what-you-can membership: https://www.atds.org/product/pay-what-you-can-membership/. The committee especially encourages nominations of BIPOC scholars and artists who work in/on theatre of the Americas.
Send nominations and self-nominations to Donatella Galella at galella@ucr.edu by February 1, 2021. Feel free to send questions and concerns as well. Please don’t hit reply all.
Nominees will be contacted and must confirm their willingness to serve prior to finalization of the election slate. Elections will be held in March 2021 via anonymous online polling and are open to all ATDS members. Newly elected officers will begin their terms following the annual meeting of the Society in August 2021.
Congratulations to ATDS Members Donatella Galella and Laura Mielke on becoming finalists for the ATHE Outstanding Book Award.
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)
Congratulations to Dr. Katie Johnson (Miami University) for receiving an NEH Fellowship Award of $6000 to complete work on her third book Racing the Great White Way: a Counter-History of Early 20th Century Broadway. This project examines interracial collaboration in theater in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s, with analysis of performances staged on Broadway, in Harlem, in Greenwich, and in films
There is a new round of ATDS-supported online research sessions beginning on Monday, 4/27. For this week’s schedule and information on how to join us, please follow this LINK.
If you’d like to volunteer to facilitate a session, that would be wonderful! We’re so grateful to the many volunteers who have already joined us, and we’re excited to welcome more as we plan weeks seven and eight of this project.