ATHE Annual Awards Ceremony Thursday, August 1, 2013 – 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Grand Cypress Ballroom DEF, Ballroom Level ATHE proudly salutes its nine award winners in this plenary, followed by the Keynote presentation . Vice President for Awards, Kevin Wetmore and his 2013 Awards Committee members will present the award recipients to the conference attendees . Ellen Stewart Career Achievement Subsequent plays include The House of Sleeping Beauties Award for Professional Theatre (adapted from a novel by Kawabata Yasunari), The Sound of a Voice (subsequently adapted into an opera with P David Henry Hwang is the 2013 recipient of the Ellen (L) Phillip Glass), Rich Relations, Face Value, Trying to Find (L) Stewart Career Achievement Award for Professional Chinatown, Golden Child and an adaptation of Peer Gynt, Theatre. among others. His play M. Butterfly premiered in 1988 at AY David Henry Hwang is an Obie-award winning playwright the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on Broadway, running for 777 Bill thanks Doan who is also the first Asian-American to win a Tony Award performances and winning the John Gassner Award, the for Best Play. Born in Los Angeles and Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle professor of theatre and associate dean educated at Stanford and Yale, Hwang Award, the Tony Award for Best Play and for administration, research & graduate studies studied playwriting under Sam Hwang’s second listing as a finalist Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes. for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. FOB, his first professionally He has also written numerous produced play, premiered at books for musical and opera, the Stanford Asian American including a revised Flower Theatre Project in 1979 Drum Song, Tarzan, Aida president 2011–13 before being mounted and The Fly. His most 14 at the Public Theatre in recent works include 15 for president-­‐elect his leadership 2009–11 in ATHE New York directed by Yellowface and Chinglish. | Mako. His next play, The He is at work on a ATHE 2013 2013 ATHE ATHE Dance and the Railroad, new play called Kung concerning a former Fu as well as several Chinese opera star screenplays. working on the railroad Hwang is the recipient in the American west, was of NEA, Guggenheim and ATHE and Leadership congratulates Institute nominated for the Pulitzer | Rockefeller Fellowships, as Prize. 1981’s Family Devotions, 2013 2013 1–4, 1–4, August August well as numerous awards in nominated for a Drama Desk the Asian American and theatre Award, completes Hwang’s the communities, including the PEN/ “Trilogy of Chinese Amerca.” on 13 years of service to the profession Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a Grand Master of Barbara Korner American Theater. In 2012, he was awarded the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the dean, Penn State led College by of Arts and Architecture American Theatre, the Asia Society Cultural Achievement Award, the China Institute Blue Cloud Award, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award and was named a fellow of the United States Artists. From 1994–2001, he Mark Heckler served by appointment of President Bill Clinton on the president, Valparaiso and University President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities The East West Players, Los Angeles’s premiere Asian American ensemble’s mainstage is the David Henry Hwang Theatre. artsandarchitecture.psu.edu ATHE Annual Awards Ceremony Thursday, August 1, 2013 – 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Grand Cypress Ballroom DEF, Ballroom Level ATHE proudly salutes its nine award winners in this plenary, followed by the Keynote presentation . Vice President for Awards, Kevin Wetmore and his 2013 Awards Committee members will present the award recipients to the conference attendees . Ellen Stewart Career Achievement Subsequent plays include The House of Sleeping Beauties Award for Professional Theatre (adapted from a novel by Kawabata Yasunari), The Sound of a Voice (subsequently adapted into an opera with P David Henry Hwang is the 2013 recipient of the Ellen (L) Phillip Glass), Rich Relations, Face Value, Trying to Find (L) Stewart Career Achievement Award for Professional Chinatown, Golden Child and an adaptation of Peer Gynt, Theatre. among others. His play M. Butterfly premiered in 1988 at AY David Henry Hwang is an Obie-award winning playwright the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on Broadway, running for 777 Bill thanks Doan who is also the first Asian-American to win a Tony Award performances and winning the John Gassner Award, the for Best Play. Born in Los Angeles and Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle professor of theatre and associate dean educated at Stanford and Yale, Hwang Award, the Tony Award for Best Play and for administration, research & graduate studies studied playwriting under Sam Hwang’s second listing as a finalist Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes. for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. FOB, his first professionally He has also written numerous produced play, premiered at books for musical and opera, the Stanford Asian American including a revised Flower Theatre Project in 1979 Drum Song, Tarzan, Aida president 2011–13 before being mounted and The Fly. His most 14 at the Public Theatre in recent works include 15 for president-­‐elect his leadership 2009–11 in ATHE New York directed by Yellowface and Chinglish. | Mako. His next play, The He is at work on a ATHE 2013 2013 ATHE ATHE Dance and the Railroad, new play called Kung concerning a former Fu as well as several Chinese opera star screenplays. working on the railroad Hwang is the recipient in the American west, was of NEA, Guggenheim and ATHE and Leadership congratulates Institute nominated for the Pulitzer | Rockefeller Fellowships, as Prize. 1981’s Family Devotions, 2013 2013 1–4, 1–4, August August well as numerous awards in nominated for a Drama Desk the Asian American and theatre Award, completes Hwang’s the communities, including the PEN/ “Trilogy of Chinese Amerca.” on 13 years of service to the profession Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a Grand Master of Barbara Korner American Theater. In 2012, he was awarded the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the dean, Penn State led College by of Arts and Architecture American Theatre, the Asia Society Cultural Achievement Award, the China Institute Blue Cloud Award, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award and was named a fellow of the United States Artists. From 1994–2001, he Mark Heckler served by appointment of President Bill Clinton on the president, Valparaiso and University President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities The East West Players, Los Angeles’s premiere Asian American ensemble’s mainstage is the David Henry Hwang Theatre. artsandarchitecture.psu.edu ATHE Career Achievement Award Oscar Brockett Outstanding Teacher for Academic Theatre of Theatre in Higher Education Award Robert A. Schanke is the 2013 recipient of the ATHE Joseph Roach is the 2013 recipient of the Oscar Brockett Career Achievement Award for Academic Theatre. Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education Award. Robert A. Schanke, Professor Emeritus of Theatre at He has directed theatre productions in England, Wales, Joseph Roach is the Sterling Professor of Theater and In 1997, Roach joined the Yale faculty as the Charles C. and Central College, Iowa, is author of Ibsen in America: A and Mexico and has been a guest lecturer at several English at Yale University. A theater historian, stage Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater and professor of Century of Change (Scarecrow, 1988) and Eva Le Gallienne: universities, including University of Missouri, Illinois State director, and performance studies scholar, Joseph Roach English and African-American studies. At Yale, Roach has A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1989). His Shattered University, Lawrence University, Southern Illinois University, is the author of The Player’s Passion: Studies in the Science served as director of graduate studies in English and chair Applause: The Lives of Eva Le Gallienne (Southern Illinois, Illinois Wesleyan, Bradley University, Trinity University, of Acting (1993, Barnard Hewitt Award in Theater History), of the Theater Studies Program. 1992) was a finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award University of Iowa, Allegheny College, Texas Tech Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (1996) and Roach’s many awards include an honorary Doctor of and the Barnard Hewitt Award for theater research. He University, and Louisiana State University. It (2007). He is the editor (with Janelle Reinelt) of Critical Letters from the University of Warwick (UK), the Fletcher co-edited with Kim Marra Passing Performances: Queer He served as the ATHE Vice President for Membership Theory and Performance (2nd edition, revised 2007) and Jones Distinguished Fellowship from the Huntington Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History (2000-2002), as ATHE Vice President for Awards (2007- Changing the Subject: Marvin Carlson and Theatre Studies, Library, a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment (Michigan, 1998), Staging Desire: Queer Readings of 2011), and was elected as ATHE Vice President for 1959-2009 (2009). Roach’s essays have appeared in for the Humanities, a Lifetime Distinguished Scholar P (L) (L) American Theater History (Michigan, 2002) and The Gay Research and Publications in 2012. In 2004 he received Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, The Drama Review, Theatre Award from the American Society for Theatre Research, a and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy (Michigan, 2005). His “That the ATHE “Excellence in Editing” Award. In 2003 History Studies, Discourse, Theater, Text and Performance Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew Furious Lesbian”: The Story of Mercedes de Quarterly, and others. His publications have AY August 1–4, 2013 1–4, August he was elected into the National Theatre W. Mellon Foundation, and is the current Acosta (Southern Illinois, 2003), won the been recognized by the James Russell Conference. He is a member of the President of the American Society for | ForeWord magazine Book of the Year College of Fellows of the American Lowell Prize from the Modern Eighteenth Century Studies.