Book Awards
Join Us for the 2023 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 2023.
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 18, 2024 from 6:30-8:00 PM EST.
The 2023 George Freedley Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance will be awarded to Michelle R. Scott for T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners’ Booking Association in Jazz-Age America, published by University of Illinois Press. Special Jury Prizes will be awarded to Catherine Burroughs and J. Ellen Gainor for The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism, published by Routledge, and Beatriz Rizk for A History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U.S.: Volumes I & II, published by Routledge. This year’s Freedley Award Jury consisted of Rachel E. Bauer, Benjamin Gillespie, and Martha S. LoMonaco.
The 2023 Richard Wall Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of recorded performance will be awarded to Dimitrios Latsis for How the Movies Got a Past: A Historiography of American Cinema, 1894-1930, published by Oxford University Press. A Special Jury Prize will be awarded to Scott Eyman for Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided, published by Simon & Schuster. 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 2022, 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 2022 of exceptional scholarship in the field of recorded or broadcast performance (film, television, radio, etc.).