Theatre
Library Association annually
sponsors two
prestigious book awards, The Greorge Freedley Memorial Award and The Theatre
Library Association Award. Beginning in 2008, award ceremonies honoring winners will be held every
fall, and
the public is invited to attend. Authors, publishers, and members of
the TLA are invited to submit nominations
for these awards in writing to the Chair of the George Freedley/Theatre
Library
Association Awards Committee,
Stephen M. Vallillo.
Longtime
TLA Book Awards Chairman, Dick Wall, passed away in July 2007. Former
Book Awards Chair, Stephen Vallillo, has graciously stepped in as
Interim Chair for the
2007 Awards. Steve will be assisted by Dick's former colleague, Ken
Rosenberg, at Queens College Library/CUNY.
To
nominate books, please contact Steve directly at: svallillo@comcast.net. For
further information, contact Ken Rosenberg: Kenneth.Rosenberg@qc.cuny.edu.
The
2007 Book Awards will be held on October 10, 2008 in New York
City, venue TBA.
Details regarding submission can be
found at eligibility
and
submissions criteria.
Invitation to Submit Nominations
Authors, publishers, and members of the Theatre Library Association are invited to submit nominations for the 2007 GEORGE FREEDLEY MEMORIAL AWARD and the THEATRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AWARD, honoring books on the theatre, and film and broadcasting, which will be presented in October 2008. $500 will be awarded to each of the winners. The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2008. Early submissions will be especially appreciated by jurors.
This year, the board of The Theatre Library Association has moved the Awards ceremony from the spring to the fall. The program will take place on October 10, 2008 at a location and time to be announced. At that ceremony, the winning authors will be invited to speak briefly about the process of researching and writing their books, followed by a Q&A from the audience. Each author will be allotted 20 minutes for his or her talk which may comprise anything from a casual chat to a formal presentation with illustrations; the purpose is to showcase the winning books and to give the audience a sense of what they are about, how they were researched, and what special features they contain. In addition, the Special Jury Prizes will no longer be awarded.
Established in 1968 to honor the late George Freedley, theatre historian, critic, author, and first curator of the New York Public Library Theatre Collection, the GEORGE FREEDLEY MEMORIAL AWARD honors a work about live theatre published in or distributed in the United States during 2007. Books with subjects related to live performance (including vaudeville, puppetry, mime, performance art, the circus, etc.) will be considered for this award. Eligible books may include biography, history, theory, criticism, reference, or related fields. The 2006 Freedley Award was presented to The Masks of Anthony and Cleopatra, by Marvin Rosenberg, edited and completed by Mary Rosenberg (University of Delaware Press). Recent winners include Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress . . . by Kathryn Shevelow (Henry Holt and Company); Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show by Rachel Shteir (Oxford University Press); A History of African American Theatre by Errol G. Hill and James Hatch (Cambridge University Press); Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam by David Kaufman (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books).
Jurors for the 2007 award are Professor James Fisher, head of the Theater Department, University of North Carolina, Greenboro; Dr. Susan L. Peters, Stewardship Coordinator, University of Texas at Galveston; and Professor Jason Rubin, Drama Department, Washington College. (Addresses below)
The THEATRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AWARD, which was established in 1973, honors a book about recorded or broadcast performance, including motion pictures, television, and radio, published in the United States during 2007. The 2006 TLA Award was given to Cartoon Modern: Style And Design In Fifties Animation, by Amid Amidi (Chronicle Books). Recent winners include Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, edited by Richard Abel (Routledge); Silent Film Sound by Rick Altman (Columbia University Press); The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre’s First Half Century by Scott Simmon (Cambridge University Press); Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting, by Mark Cotta Vaz and Craig Barron (Chronicle Books); and Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - the Early Years 1903-1940 by Gary Giddins (Little, Brown & Company).
Jurors for the 2007 awards are Steven Higgins, Curator of the Film Collections, Museum of Modern Art; Madeline Matz, Reference Librarian, Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (retired) and Catherine Ritchie, Theatre & Film Librarian, Fine Arts Division, Dallas Public Library. (Addresses are given below.)
Works which are ineligible for either award include anthologies (of previously published plays or other scripts except for new critical editions); directories; bibliographies; collections of articles and essays which were all previously published in other sources; reprints of earlier publications; most works on non-theatrical dance, ballet, and opera; and plays, scripts, or similar dramatic works. Translations into English of significant works, other than play texts, will be considered.
Entries are judged on the basis of scholarship (if applicable: not required of a memoir, for example), readability, and general contribution to the broadening of knowledge. No galley sheets or proofs will be accepted. To be eligible for these awards, books must have been published or (if published abroad) distributed in the United States during the 2007 calendar year. If no date of publication appears on either the title page or its verso, the date must be indicated in writing by the publisher.
Nominations are to be submitted in writing to the Chairperson of the GEORGE FREEDLEY/THEATRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AWARDS Committee: Dr. Stephen M. Vallillo, 91 Mohr Avenue, Bloomfield, New Jersey 07003, svallillo@comcast.net.
The winners of each award will be determined by three-member juries and the awards chairperson. Publishers are asked to submit FOUR COPIES EACH of every book nominated: One of these copies should be sent to each of the three jurors on the panel for the award for which the book is eligible and the fourth copy should be sent to Dr. Vallillo. (For books eligible for consideration for both awards, seven copies should be submitted: one to each juror on each panel and one copy to Prof. Vallillo.) There is no entry fee, and either hard cover or paperback editions may be submitted.
All nominated books must be
received by the jurors no later than June 15, 2008.
Names and addresses of
the chairperson and the jurors are listed below:
Chair Awards Committee
Dr. Stephen M. Vallillo
91 Mohr Avenue
Bloomfield, New Jersey 07003
GEORGE FREEDLEY AWARD JURY
Professor James Fisher
3516
Regents Park Lane
Greensboro, NC 27455
Dr. Susan L. Peters
28 North Dansby Drive
Galveston, Texas 77551
Professor
Jason Rubin
217 Bolton Place
Baltimore, MD 21217
THEATRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AWARD JURY
Mr. Steven Higgins, Curator
Department of Film
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
New York, New York 10019
Ms. Madeline Matz
8639 Trumps Hill Road
Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772
Ms. Catherine Ritchie
Theatre & Film Librarian. Fine Arts Div.
Dallas Public Library
1515 Young Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
Please submit one copy of each nominated book to each member of the appropriate jury and one copy to Dr. Vallillo, the awards chair, by June 15, 2008.
The Theatre Library Association thanks you in advance for your cooperation. Efforts to send nominated books early will be especially appreciated.
Established in 1968 to honor the late George Freedley, theatre historian, critic, author, and first curator of the New York Public Library Theatre Collection, the George Freedley Memorial Award honors the best English-language work about live theatre published in the United States. Books with subjects related to live theatrical performance (including vaudeville, puppetry, pantomime, the circus, etc.) will be considered for this award. Eligible books may include biography, history, theory, criticism, reference, or related fields.
Marvin Rosenberg
The Masks of Anthony and Cleopatra
(University of Delaware Press)
Bruce D. McClung
Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical
(Oxford University Press)
Patrick Carnegy
Wagner and the Art of the Theatre
(Yale University Press)
| Established in 1973, this award is given each year to the best English-language book about recorded performance, including motion pictures, television, and radio. |
Amid Amidi
Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties
Animation
(Chronicle Books)
Steve Higgins
Still Moving: the Film and Media Collections
of the Museum of Modern Art
(Museum of Modern Art)
Birgitta Steene
Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide
(University of Chicago Press)
| TLA sponsors the Distinguished Achievement in Service and Support of Performing Arts Libraries Award, given to individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to theatre librarianship. The current honorees are: |
Maryann Chach
Director/Chief Archivist
Shubert Archive
Mary C. Henderson
Theatre Historian/Writer
Madeline Fitzgerald
Matz
former Reference and Research Specialist
Library of Congress
For further information, contact Martha S. LoMonaco
For assistance with membership needs-dues payments,
receipt of publications and mailings, etc., contact
David Nochimson
