Book Awards
Join Us for the 2024 TLA Book Awards Ceremony
The Theatre Library Association is proud to announce the TLA Book Award winners for English language works of scholarship on live and recorded performance published in 2024.
The Theatre Library Association is delighted to invite you to the annual presentation of these TLA Book Awards. The virtual TLA Book Awards Ceremony will include remarks from this year’s winning authors, presentations of the TLA Louis Rachow Distinguished Service in Performing Arts Librarianship Award and Brooks McNamara Performing Arts Librarianship Scholarship, and a slideshow of related special collections materials from the holdings of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
This event will stream on YouTube as a public program of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on Friday, October 24, 2025 from 6:30-7:30 PM EST.
The 2024 George Freedley Memorial Award for exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance will be awarded to Tarryn Li-Min Chun for Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China, published by University of Michigan Press and Bethany Hughes for Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity, published by NYU Press. A Special Jury Prize will be awarded to Brídín Clements Cotton and Natalie Robin for Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production, published by Routledge. This year’s Freedley Award Jury consisted of Rachel E. Bauer, Benjamin Gillespie, and Martha S. LoMonaco.
The 2024 Richard Wall Memorial Award for exemplary work in the field of recorded performance will be awarded to Patricia Aufderheide for Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy, published by University of California Press. A Special Jury Prize will be awarded to Philip Gefter for Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, published by Bloomsbury. This year’s Wall Award Jury consisted of Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, David Pierce, and Stephen Tropiano.
Questions? Email us at: TLABookAwards@gmail.com.
THE AWARDS:
George Freedley Memorial Award honors a work published during the past calendar year, with a subject related to live performance (including theatre, dance, vaudeville, puppetry, mime, performance art, the circus, etc.).
Freedley Award Winners, 1969-Present »
Richard Wall Memorial Award honors a work published during the past calendar year of exceptional scholarship in the field of recorded or broadcast performance (film, television, radio, etc.).