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$19.95 paperback | $19.95 e-book 800.252.3206 | www.utexaspress.com ATHE ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY Thursday, July 24, 2014 – 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Princess D-G ATHE proudly salutes its nine award winners in this plenary, followed by the Keynote presentation. Vice President for Awards, Dani Snyder-Young and her 2014 Awards Committee members will present the award recipients to the conference attendees.
Ellen Stewart Career Achievement Award for Professional Theatre Luis Valdez is the 2014 recipient of the Ellen Stewart ATHE Career Achievement Award for Professional Theatre. 2014 Luis Valdez is regarded as one of the most important and influential American playwrights living today. His internationally renowned, and Obie award winning theater company, El Teatro Campesino (The Farm Workers’ Theater) was founded by Luis in 1965 – in the heat of the United Farm Workers (UFW) struggle and the Great Delano Grape Strike in California’s Central Valley. His involvement with Cesar Chavez, the UFW and the early Chicano Movement left an indelible mark that remained embodied in all his work even after he left the UFW in 1967: his early actos Las Dos Caras del Patroncito and Quinta Temporada, (short plays written to encourage 17 campesinos to leave the fields and join the UFW), his mitos (mythic plays) Bernabe and La Carpa de los Rasquachis that gave Chicanos their own contemporary mythology, his examinations of Chicano urban life in I Mr. Valdez has written numerous plays and authored Don’t Have To Show You No Stinkin’ Badges, his Chicano numerous articles and books. His latest anthology, re-visioning of classic Mexican folktales Corridos, his Mummified Deer and Other Plays, was recently published exploration of his Indigenous Yaqui roots in Mummified by Arte Publico Press. He has taught at the University of Deer, and – of course – the play that re-exams the “Sleepy California, Berkeley, the University of California, Santa Lagoon Trial of 1942” and the “Zoot Suit Riots of 1943”, Cruz, Fresno State University and was one of the founding two of the darkest moments in L.A. urban history – Zoot professors of California State University, Monterey Bay. Suit – considered a masterpiece of the American Theater He is the recipient of honorary doctorates from, among as well as the first Chicano play on Broadway and the first others, the University of Rhode Island, the University of Chicano major feature film. South Florida, Cal Arts, the University of Santa Clara, Luis’ numerous feature film and television credits and his alma mater, San Jose State University. Mr. Valdez include, among others, the box office hit filmLa Bamba was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American JULY starring Lou Diamonds Phillips, Cisco Kid starring Jimmy Theatre at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 24-27 Smits and Cheech Marin and Corridos: Tales of Passion Washington D.C. In 2007 he was awarded a Rockefeller and Revolution starring Linda Ronstadt. fellowship as one of fifty U.S. artists so honored across the United States. AZ Luis’ hard work and long creative career have won him countless awards including numerous LA Drama Critic selection committee: Awards, Dramalogue Awards, Bay Area Critics Awards, Dani Snyder-Young, Chair, Illinois Wesleyan University the prestigious George Peabody Award for excellence Jason Bisping, University of Colorado, Boulder in television, the Presidential Medal of the Arts, the Cheryl Black, University of Missouri, Columbia Governor’s Award for the California Arts Council, and Bud Coleman, University of Colorado, Boulder Mexico’s prestigious Aguila Azteca Award given to Anne Fletcher, Southern Illinois University individuals whose work promotes cultural excellence and David Jortner, Baylor University exchange between US and Mexico. Rhona Justice-Malloy, University of Mississippi Maya Roth, Georgetown University ATHE Career Achievement Award for Academic Theatre Harry Elam, Stanford University, is the 2014 recipient of the ATHE Career Achievement Award for Academic Theatre. Harry J. Elam, Jr. is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities and the Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He is author of Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka; and the Erroll Hill Prize winning The Past as Present in the ATHE Drama of August Wilson; and coeditor of five books, 2014 African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader; Colored Contradictions: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Drama; The Fire This Time: African American Plays for the New Millenium; Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Performance and Popular Culture; and The Methuen Anthology of Postblack Plays. His articles have appeared in American Theater, American Drama, Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, At Stanford he has been awarded six different teaching Text and Performance Quarterly as well as journals in awards: The ASSU Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Belgium, Israel, Poland and Taiwan. He has also written Small Classes (1992); the Humanities and Sciences essays published in several critical anthologies. Professor Deans Distinguished Teaching Award (1993); the Black Elam is the former editor of Theatre Journal and on the Community Service Center Outstanding Teacher 18 editorial boards of Atlantic Studies, Journal of American Award (1994) (2002), The Bing Teaching Fellowship for Drama and Theatre, and Modern Drama. In 2006, Undergraduate Teaching (1994-1997); The Rhodes Prize Professor Elam was the winner of the Betty Jean Jones for Undergraduate Teaching (1998). award for Outstanding Teaching from the American Harry J. Elam, Jr. received his B.A. from Harvard College Theatre and Drama Society, the winner of the Excellence in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Dramatic Arts from the University in Editing Award from the Association of Theatre in of California, Berkeley in 1984. Higher Education and the winner of the Distinguished selection committee: Scholar Award from the American Society of Theatre Dani Snyder-Young, Chair, Illinois Wesleyan University Research. He was also inducted into the College of Jason Bisping, University of Colorado, Boulder Fellows of the American Theatre in April 2006. Cheryl Black, University of Missouri, Columbia In addition to his scholarly work, he has directed Bud Coleman, University of Colorado, Boulder professionally for over twenty years: most notably, he Anne Fletcher, Southern Illinois University directed Tod, the Boy Tod by Talvin Wilks for the Oakland David Jortner, Baylor University Ensemble Company, and for TheatreWorks in Palo Alto Rhona Justice-Malloy, University of Mississippi California, he directed Radio Golf by August Wilson, Maya Roth, Georgetown University JULY Jar the Floor by Cheryl West, and Blues for an Alabama 24-27 Sky by Pearl Cleague, which was nominated for nine Bay Area Circle Critics Awards and was the winner of Drama-Logue Awards for Best Production, Best Design, AZ Best Ensemble Cast and Best Direction. He has directed several others of August Wilson’s plays, including Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Two Trains Running, and Fences, the latter of which won eight Bay Area “Choice” Awards. In February 2010, at the Roble Theatre on Stanford campus, Professor Elam directed Rent by Jonathan Larson. Oscar Brockett Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education Award Gretel Geist Rutledge is the 2014 recipient of the Oscar Brockett Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education Award. Gretel Geist received her B.A. from the University of Michigan in Japanese language and literature and her M.A. in Theatre at Michigan State University. After one year of Ph.D. work, she joined the Theatre faculty in 1969. She has been the head of costume design ever since. She has designed sets and costumes for well over 100 productions. Her costume designs for Henry V, Richard ATHE III, and MacBeth all involved innovative armor techniques 2014 which were displayed at American Theatre Association, the Kennedy Center American College Theatre festivals among other venues. Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, an award-winning Mikado and Much Ado About Nothing all used theatrical painting and dying techniques extensively. Professor Geist taught costuming, costume design, costume history, millinery, mask making, costume crafts, make-up, fabric modification, period research and history of 20th Century theatrical design. She is a member of USITT, its Costume Commission, the Costume Society. She served on KC/ACTF Region III Selection 19 Committee for 10 years. She was the Region III Michigan Chair for four years, workshop presenter, and tireless responder to productions at universities and colleges throughout the Midwest. She has been awarded the KC/ ACTF Gold Medallion. She co-founded Michigan State University’s award winning Summer Circle Theatre and was its principle designer for twenty years. Her intaglio, collagraph and hand made paper art are in permanent collections in museums and galleries in Michigan and the Midwest. In retirement, Gretel continues as a working artist. selection committee: Bud Coleman, University of Colorado, Boulder, Chair Jessica Hillman-McCord, State University of New York, Fredonia JULY Ron Zank, Culver-Stockton College 24-27 AZ Jane Chambers Playwriting Award Gina Young is the 2014 Jane Chambers Award Winner for FEMMES: A Tragedy. The reading of FEMMES: A Tragedy will be presented on Friday, July 25 at 3:30 PM in the Sonoran Room. FEMMES: A Tragedy (8W) by Gina Young, premiered at Highways, is a contemporary lesbian tragicomedy in two acts, partially inspired by Clare Luce Boothe’s 1936 play, The Women. When a community organizer’s polyamorous girlfriend drops her overnight for a hot bartender, her friends—an activist, an academic and a party promoter— ATHE are thrown into a girl/girl competition despite their best 2014 intentions and are ultimately forced to parse the ways in which butch/femme relationships do or don’t replicate heterosexual stereotypes. Judges were struck with how the play’s sly wit, savvy exploration of lesbian identity, and theatrical vitality (exemplified by a deconstructed burlesque-within-the-play) pushes boundaries both in style and subject matter. For rights, contact the playwright at
selection committee: Jason Bisping, University of Colorado, Boulder, Chair Liz Foster-Shaner, University of Wisconsin Laura Purcell Gates, Bath Spa University Kelly Howe, North Central College Coya Paz, DePaul University Julia Taylor, City University of New York, John Jay College
JULY 24-27 AZ Award for Outstanding ATHE Award for Book Outstanding Article Joshua Takano Chambers- Jennifer Parker-Starbuck Letson, is the 2014 recipient is the recipient of the 2014 of the of the ATHE Award for Award for Outstanding Outstanding Book for A Race Article for Animal Ontologies So Different: Performance and Media Representations: and Law in Asian America Robotics, Puppets, and the (New York University Press, Real of War Horse (Theatre 2013). Journal 65:3, October 2013). Joshua Chambers-Letson Dr. Jennifer Parker-Starbuck ATHE is assistant professor in the Department of Performance is a Reader in the Department of Drama, Theatre and 2014 Studies at Northwestern where he conducts research Performance at the University of Roehampton, London. and teaches at the intersections of performance studies, She is author of Cyborg Theatre: Corporeal/Technological Marxist theory, Asian American studies, political and Intersections in Multimedia Performance (Palgrave legal theory, and critical race studies. Other articles and Macmillan, 2011), and her essays on bodies, animality, writings can be found in Women & Performance: a journal and multimedia have appeared in a variety of books and of feminist theory, Journal of Popular Music Studies, journals including Theatre Journal, PAJ, Women and Criticism Journal, Theater Survey, TDR: The Drama Performance Journal, and Theatre Topics. She is the co- Review, Cultural Studies, and MELUS. He is also a series editor, with Lourdes Orozco, of Performing Animality: co-editor of the Sexual Culture series of NYU Press with Animals in Performance Practices, (Palgrave, 2014) and Ann Pellegrini and Tavia Nyong’o. He is currently working the co-author of Performance and Media: Taxonomies for on a second book project, The Coming Communism: a Changing Field (with Sarah Bay-Cheng and David Saltz, Marxist Theory and Minoritarian Performance, which University of Michigan Press, Forthcoming 2014-5). She 22 explores how contemporary performance and art (by is the co-director (with Professor Garry Marvin) of the artists including Félix González-Torres, Michi Barall, Interdisciplinary Research Group for Human-Animal William Pope.L, Tameka Norris, Tehching Tshieh, and Studies at the University of Roehampton. She serves as the Knife) rehearses and anticipates concrete forms of an Assistant Editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and actually existing Marxism. Art and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Andrew Sofer, Boston College, is the recipient of an Performance Arts and Digital Media. honorable mention for Dark Matter: Invisibility in Drama, selection committee: Theatre, and Performance (University of Michigan Press, Cheryl Black, University of Missouri, Columbia, Chair 2013). Beth Osborne, Florida State University Janelle Reinelt, University of Warwick selection committee: Anne Fletcher, Southern Illinois University, Chair Brian Singleton, Trinity College Robert B. Shimko, University of Houston Julia A. Walker, Washington University in St. Louis Sara Warner, Cornell University JULY 24-27 2014 Awards Committee AZ Dani Snyder-Young, Illinois Wesleyan University; Vice President for Awards Jason Bisping, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chair, Award for Leadership in Community-Based Theatre and Civic Engagement Cheryl Black, University of Missouri, Columbia; Chair, Award for Outstanding Article Bud Coleman, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chair, Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education Oscar Brockett Outstanding Teacher of Theatre PAST AWARD WINNERS in Higher Education Award Ellen Stewart Career Achievement in Professional Past winners are: Theatre (2011) and the ATHE Career Achievement year outstanding teacher Award in Academic Theatre 2013 Joseph Roach, Yale University 2012 Cheryl Black, University of Missouri Past winners are: 2011 Jill Dolan, Princeton University year academic professional 2010 Paula Vogel, Yale University 2013 Robert Schanke David Henry Hwang 2009 Mill Barranger, University of North Carolina 2012 Sue-Ellen Case Peter Sellars 2008 Judith Royer, CJS, Loyola Marymount University 2011 William Esper Dennis Zacek 2007 Sandra L. Richards, Northwestern University 2010 Gill Lazier Beth Henley 2006 Diana Mady Kelly, University of Windsor 2009 John Emigh Judith Malina 2005 Vivian Fusillo, Winona State University and Doric Wilson ATHE 2004 James Symons, University of Colorado, Boulder 2008 Richard Schechner Bill Irwin 2014 2003 Suzanne Burgoyne, University of Missouri, Columbia 2007 Jorge Huerta Robert Woodruff 2002 Bill Harbin, Louisiana State University 2006 Sue Ann Park Christopher Newton 2001 Felicia Hardison Londre, University 2005 Robert Benedetti Jon Jory of Missouri, Kansas City 2004 Leon Katz William Hutt 2000 Ronald A. Willis, University of Kansas 2003 Vernell A. W. Lillie Adrian Hall 1999 Edgardo de la Cruz, California State 2002 Sidney Berger Edward Albee University, Hayward 2001 Don B. Wilmeth Martha Coigney 1998 Jewel Walker, University of Delaware 2000 M. Lin Wright Robert Brustein 1997 Leonard Pronko, Pomona College 1999 Robert Cohen Anne Bogart 1996 Jonathan Levy, The State University 1998 Arthur Lessac Zelda Fichandler of New York, Stonybrook 1997 James V. Hatch Augusto Boal 1995 Stanley Kauffmann, Columbia University 1996 Margaret B. Wilkerson Ruby Dee 1994 James K. Brandon, University of Hawaii and Ossie Davis 1993 Grant McKernie, University of Oregon 23 1995 Marvin Carlson Ellen Stewart 1994 Kristin Linklater Jose Quintero ATHE Award for Outstanding Book 1993 Winona L. Fletcher Alice Childress Past winners are: 1992 Burnett M. Hobgood Maria Irene Fornes year author of outstanding book 1991 Oscar Brockett Lloyd Richards 2013 Sara Warner 1990 Vera Mowry Roberts Frank Galati 2012 Robin Bernstein and Susan Leigh Foster 1989 Helen Krich Chinoy Ming Cho Lee 2011 Angela Pao 1988 Patricia McIlrath Marsha Norman 2010 Philip B. Zarrilli 1987 Roger L. Stevens 2009 Geoffrey S. Proehl 2008 Alicia Arrizon 2007 Esther Kim Lee 2006 Carrie Sandahl and Phil Auslander 2005 Shannon Jackson 2004 Diana Taylor 2003 Katrin Seig 2002 Anthony Tatlow 2001 Freddie Rokem JULY 2000 Michal Kobialka 24-27 1999 David Roman 1998 John D. Cox and David Kastan Anne Fletcher, Southern Illinois University; 1997 Katherine E. Kelly AZ Chair, Award for Outstanding Book 1996 Kathy A. Perkins and Roberta Uno David Jortner, Baylor University; 1995 W. B. Worthen Chair, Excellence in Editing Award 1993 Robert Barton Maya Roth, Georgetown University; 1992 John Gronbeck-Tedesco Chair, Jane Chambers Playwriting Award ATHE Award for Outstanding Article Excellence in Playwriting Award Past winners are: Past winners are (David Mark Cohen year author of outstanding article Playwriting Award through 2013): 2013 Kim Marra year playwright 2012 Leo Cabranes-Grant 2013 Laura Jacqmin 2011 Jason Stanyek and Benjamin Piekut 2012 Lojo Simon 2010 Robin Bernstein 2011 Evan Sanderson 2009 Bratislav Jakovljevic and Shane Vogel 2010 Mark Charney 2008 Elizabeth Colburn-Roxworthy 2009 Kamarie Chapman 2007 Stacy Wolf 2008 George Brandt 2006 Margaret Werry 2007 Ben Clawson ATHE 2005 Rustom Bharucha 2006 Romulus Linney 2004 Susan Leigh Foster 2005 Ed Stevens 2014 2003 Elinor Fuchs and Una Chaudhuri 2004 LeeAnne Hill Adams 2002 Elin Diamond 2003 Molly Smith Metzler 2001 Andrea Most 2002 Attilio Favorini, Lynne Conner 2000 Jennifer Havie and Erin Hurley 2001 Elizabeth Wong 1999 Marc Robinson 2000 Edward EmanuEl 1998 Stanton B. Garner, Jr. 1997 Penny Farfan Jane Chambers Playwriting Award 1996 David Savran year playwright 1995 Coco Fusco 2013 Claire Chafee 1994 Shearer West 2012 Jen Silverman 1993 Joseph Roach 2011 Natalie Marlena Goodman 1992 Frantisek Deak 2010 Martha Jane Kaufman 24 1986 Carole J. Carlisle 2009 Meryl Cohen 2008 Mary F. Casey ATHE Excellence in Editing Award 2007 Christine Evans Past winners are: 2006 Jane Chambers Retrospective: No Award Given year editor 2005 Nicola Pearson 2013 Maria Delgado 2004 Madeleine George 2012 Janelle Reinelt and Brian Singleton 2003 Melody Cooper 2011 Bonnie Marranca 2002 Deborah Brevort 2010 Jim O’Quinn 2001 Bernadette Flagler 2009 Richard Knowles 2000 Terry Lawrence 2008 John Gronbeck-Tedesco 1999 Mindi Dickstein 2007 Thomas Postlewait 1998 Elizabeth Wong 2006 Harry J. Elam, Jr. 1997 Brighde Mullins 2005 Samuel Leiter 1996 Kathleen Cahill (book and lyrics), 2004 Robert A. 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