Join Us for the 2021 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 2021.
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 14, 2022 from 6:30-7:30 PM EST.
Reserve your spot online today!
The 2021 George Freedley Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance will be awarded to Katrina M. Phillips for Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History, published by University of North Carolina Press. A Special Jury Prize will be awarded to Rashna Darius Nicholson for The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853-1893), published by Palgrave Macmillan. This year’s Freedley Award Jury consisted of Kate Elswit, Beth Kattelman, and David Roman.
The 2021 Richard Wall Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of recorded performance will be awarded to Chris Grosvenor for Cinema on the Front Line: British Soldiers and Cinema in the First World War, published by University of Exeter Press. A Special Jury Prize will be awarded to Melanie Bell for Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema, published by University of Illinois Press. This year’s Wall Award Jury consisted of Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, David Pierce, and Stephen Tropiano.
Questions? Email us at: TLABookAwards@gmail.com.