ATDS Announces 2026 Award Winners!
2026 American Theatre and Drama Society Award Winners
Publication Subvention Award
Dorothy Chanksy, Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000–2009
Graduate Student Research/Travel Award
Frederick Miller, “‘It’s Just Like Broadway’: Reprisal Dramaturgies in Licensed U.S. Musical Production (2021-2026)”
Emerging Scholars Award
Charlotte Bailey, "The Sartorial Staging of Suffrage”
David Priebe, "COVID Inspires Reimagining of Community Theatres and Their Communities.”
Contingent Faculty Research/Travel Award
Janet Werther, ‘Why Not Both?’: Dramatizing Queer Kin-Making Across Generational Differences Through Paula Vogel's And Baby Makes Seven”
Faculty Research/Travel Award
Kristin Leahey, "A History of WP Theatre."
Vera Mowry Roberts Award
Ryan Donovan, “Demanding in the Extreme”: Virtuosity and Labor in Bob Fosse’s Dancin’,' Theatre Survey 67, no. 1 (January 2026): 89-120.
Vera Mowry Roberts Award Honorable Mention
Aileen Robinson, "Buried Alive: Performance Magic and Black Herman's Private Graveyard in 1920s Harlem," Theatre Journal 77, no. 3 (September 2025): 275-295.
Frick Book Award
Jonathan Shandell, Readying the Revolution: African American Theater and Performance from Post-World-War II to the Black Arts Movement
Frick Book Award Honorable Mention
Danielle Roper, Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas
Jennifer Joan Thompson, Performing Citizenship in Postdictatorship Chile: Cultural Policy and the Making of Political Dramaturgies
Betty Jean Jones Award
Harvey Young
