Elections
Thank you to everyone who participated in TLA's 2011 online elections.
Four Board members were elected at TLA’s Annual Business meeting on November 4th. Diana King, Francesca Marini, Tiffany Nixon, and Doug Reside will serve three-year terms from 2012-2014. Their Bios appear below.
TLA President Kenneth Schlesinger welcomes our new Board members, as well as King and Marini, who are returning. He gives special thanks for the service and contributions of departing Board members John Frick and Stephen Johnson.
Diana King currently serves as Librarian for Film, Television, Theater, and Dance at the UCLA Arts Library. Prior to this appointment, she held the same position at University of California, Davis. She received both her MLS and MA degree in English at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. A TLA member since 2003, she contributed a chapter on researching costumes to the recent Performing Arts Resources volume on Documenting: Costume Design.
Diana is a member of the ACRL Arts Section and Society for Cinema and Media Studies, as well as current Convener of University of California Performing Arts bibliographers and editor for Theater and Dance in ACRL Women’s Studies section Core Books database. She has served on the TLA Board for one year.
Since July 2010, Francesca Marini has been Archives Director at Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Prior to this position, she was Assistant Professor at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She has a PhD in Library and Information Science from UCLA, and studied as an archivist in Italy. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Theatre Studies from University of Bologna.
Francesca is a leading expert in performing arts archiving, and has been engaged in several research projects. She presents widely at national and international conferences, and publishes in archival and performing arts journals. Her new position as Archives Director is Dr. Marini’s dream job, and she has been walking on air since moving to Stratford.
Tiffany Nixon is the archivist for Roundabout Theatre Company. Launched in 2008, the Roundabout Theatre Company Archives are home to the institutional and stage documentation chronicling the company’s nearly fifty-year history as an Off-Broadway and Broadway producer. Previous projects include serving as archivist for the interdisciplinary performance organization The Kitchen, as well as cataloging librarian for the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Project at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Ms. Nixon holds an MLIS (Archives Concentration) and an MA in English Literature, and is a member of SAA, TLA, and ASTR. She is also a member of the emerging American Theatre Archive Project, and is passionate about its mission to provide resource and knowledge sharing within the theatre community.
Doug Reside became Digital Curator for the Performing Arts at the The New York Public Library in 2011 after over four years on the directorial staff of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. He has been a TLA member for two years, and in 2010 presented at the TLA Plenary panel at ASTR on his work with the born-digital drafts of Jonathan Larson’s Rent at the Library of Congress. Doug has been director of multiple theater library projects including Music Theater Online and the Shakespeare Quartos Archive. He is currently editing the Musical of the Month blog at NYPL, which makes available in various ebook formats one pre-1923 libretto each month.
Nominating Committee Chair: Marti LoMonaco
Last updated: November 9, 2011