ATDS Announces 2025 Award Recipients
Congratulations to our 2025 award recipients—with deepest gratitude to all applicants and adjudicators!
Faculty Travel/Research Award
Clara Kundin, Eastern New Mexico University
“Rooting and Routing: Navigating Change, Trust, and Community Building as Junior Faculty”
Contingent Faculty Travel/Research Awards
aaron moore ellis, Pace University
“The Sun Dance Opera of Zitkala-Ša: Theater Artist and Political Organizer”
Jessica Friedman, San Diego State University
“Modern Dance in Crisis: Women Remaking Modern Dance in the 1940s”
Graduate Student Travel/Research Award Honorable Mention
Lena Chen, University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Student Travel/Research Award
Tinamarie Ivey, University of Texas, Dallas
Emerging Scholar Awards
Mina Kawahara, University of Maryland, College Park
“‘Show Me the Map’: Interstate the Musical and Navigating Queer Asian American Identity”
Ryan Nock, University of Maryland, College Park
“Embodying the Extrahuman: Laurence the Autistic Puppet from All in a Row”
Publication Subvention Award
Nick Fesette, Performance After Policing: Abolition Dramaturgies in Carceral America (Ohio State University Press)
Vera Mowry Roberts Award Honorable Mentions
Jason Fitzgerald, “Amiri Baraka’s Humanist Theater: A Reading of A Black Mass,” boundary 2, Volume 51, Number 4, November 2024
Leticia L. Ridley, “A Grammar of Abolition: Black Theatrical Geographies,” Theatre Journal, Volume 76, Number 3, September 2024
Vera Mowry Roberts Award
Maria Di Simone, “Chinese American Identity, Performance, and Immigration Law: Jue Quon Tai in Theatres and at National Borders,” Theatre Journal, Volume 76, Number 1, March 2024
John W. Frick Book Award Finalists
Broderick Chow, Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity (Northwestern University Press)
Bethany Hughes, Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity (NYU Press)
Patrick McKelvey, Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU Press)
Jon Rossini, Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama (University of Michigan Press)
John W. Frick Book Award Honorable Mention
Kellen Hoxworth, Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance (Northwestern University Press)
John W. Frick Book Award
Lindsay Goss, F*ck the Army: How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (NYU Press)
Betty Jean Jones Award
Sean Metzger, University of California, Los Angeles
