Join Us for the 2022 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 2022.
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 stream on YouTube as a public program of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on Friday, October 27, 2023 from 6:30-7:30 PM EST. Join us!
The 2022 George Freedley Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance will be awarded to Noémie Ndiaye for Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race, published by University of Pennsylvania Press. A Special Jury Prize will be awarded to Isaac Butler for The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act, published by Bloomsbury. This year’s Freedley Award Jury consisted of Beth Kattelman, Kate Elswit, and Rachel E. Bauer.
The 2022 Richard Wall Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of recorded performance will be awarded to Ross Melnick, for Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World, published by Columbia University Press. A Special Jury Prize will be awarded to Eric Hoyt for Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press, published by University of California Press. This year’s Wall Award Jury consisted of Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, David Pierce, and Stephen Tropiano.
Questions? Email us at: TLABookAwards@gmail.com.