Join Us for the 2020 TLA Book Awards Virtual Ceremony
The Theatre Library Association is proud to announce the TLA Book Award winners for outstanding English language works of scholarship on live and recorded performance published in 2020.
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 and jurors, the presentation of the Louis Rachow Distinguished Service in Performing Arts Librarianship Award, and a slideshow of related special collections materials from the holdings of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
This event will take place via Zoom as a public program of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on Friday, October 15, 2021 from 5:30-6:30 PM EST.
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The 2020 George Freedley Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance will be awarded to Marlis Schweitzer for Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century, published by the University of Iowa Press. A Special Jury Prize will be awarded to Clifford Mason for Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun, published by Rutgers University Press. This year’s Freedley Award Jury consisted of Annie Holt, Beth Kattelman, and David Roman.
The 2020 Richard Wall Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of recorded performance will be awarded to Steven C. Smith for Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood’s Most Influential Composer, published by Oxford University Press. A Special Jury Prize will be awarded to Greg Mitchell for The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, published by The New Press. This year’s Wall Award Jury consisted of Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, David Pierce, and Stephen Tropiano.
Questions? Email us at: TLABookAwards@gmail.com.