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ATHE’s 22nd Conference:Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement

July 31- August 3, 2008Grand Hyatt DenverDenver, CO

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ATHE Awards CeremonyThursday, July 31

Imperial Ballroom – 2nd Floor5:00pm–6:00pm(immediatelyprecedingtheKeynoteAddress)

ATHE proudly salutes its many award winners in this opening general session of the conference on Thursday, July 31. Vice President Robert Schanke and the 2008 Awards Committee members will present the award recipients to the conference attendees. ATHE’s eight awards categories are:

• CareerAchievementAwardinProfessionalTheatre• CareerAchievementAwardinAcademicTheatre• OutstandingTeacherofTheatreinHigherEducationAward• ResearchAwardforOutstandingArticle• ResearchAwardforOutstandingBook• ExcellenceinEditingAward• JaneChambersPlaywritingAward• DavidMarkCohenPlaywritingAward

ATHE Career Achievement Award for Professional TheatreBill Irwin is the 2008 recipient of ATHE’s Career Achievement Award for Professional Theatre. For twenty-five years, Bill has been creating work as a choreographer, actor, dancer, director, producer and writer. Irwin has achieved success on the stage, on the small screen, and on the big screen as well, but it is the quality and creativity of his stage work that has captured the minds and hearts of so many.

Highlights of Irwin’s awards/honors include:

• 2005: TonyAwardforLeadingActorinaPlay (Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf)• 2005: DramaDeskAwardforWoolf• 2004: PBSGreatPerformances,“BillIrwin,ClownPrince”• 2003-4:PlaywrightinResidence,SignatureTheatreCompany• 1984: GuggenheimFellow• 1984: 5-yearMacArthurFellowhip(GeniusAward)• 1983: Largely New York receives 5 Tony Nominations, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and New York Dance Performance Awards• 1983: NEAChoreographer’sFellowship• 1981: NEAChoreographer’sFellowship

Irwin was an original member of the Kraken Theatre Company directed by Herbert Blau as well as an original member of San Francisco’s Pickle Family Circus. He has worked at the Public Theatre in Beckett’s Texts for Nothing, directed by Joe Chaikin, in The Tempest directed by George Wolf, and at Lincoln Center, appearing with Steve Marin, Robin Williams and F. Murray Abraham in Waiting For Godot. He has worked at La Jolla Playhouse, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and created original work at theatres across the country, including Fool Moon, with David Shiner and the Red Clay Ramblers which played on Broadway, in Los Angeles, Vienna and Munich; Irwin was Mr. Noodle in “Elmo’s World” on Sesame Street and has dozens of other television and film performances to his credit. Bill’s career is a sustained and focused career, guided by intense personal decisions about his projects and integrity that is recognized by all who work with him.

In addition to Irwin’s work in film, television, and on the stage, he is a passionate advocate for a number of issues. He serves on the board of the New 42nd Street, a state chartered entity charged with the renewal of 42nd Street. Bill works with a group of local residents in his hometown, Nyack, New York, as part of a preservation project for a neighborhood theatre now re-named Riverspace Arts in Nyack.

Creations such as Not Quite/New York, The Regard of Flight, Largely New York and Fool Moon have consistently demonstrated Irwin’s ability to honor the traditions of clowning and physical comedy that are his foundation, while simultaneously inventing new spaces for the “clown” to occupy on the contemporary stage. Bill’s innovative approach to clowning, his exploration of freedom, autonomy, flight, and survival have made him one of the most human performers of our time, always vulnerable and completely accessible to his audience. As Ron Jenkins writes in Acrobats of the Soul:

“In the end Irwin always manages to do more that just survive. Whether he is battling pretentious critics, resisting the pull of technology, or taming a plateful of wild pasta, Irwin keeps his dignity as well as his body intact. His frustrated desires to fly express the dreams and fears of his audience in surreal passages of inspired buffoonery. Using aspirations for the impossible as fuel for slapstick, he is like Icarus with baggy pants, laughing at his melting wings as he prepares for a pratfall and thumbs his nose at the sun.”





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ATHE Career Achievement Award for Academic Theatre

Richard Schechner, New York University, is awarded the 2008 ATHE Career Achievement Award for Academic Theatre.

Richard’s record of reaching out and supporting students, scholars, and practitioners from all parts of Asia (and elsewhere) is outstanding. He has in effect trained an entire generation (two generations in fact) of theatre and performance studies specialists who now hold teaching and admin-istrative posts at universities in their home countries, globalizing ther field in important ways that are unprecedented. His influence on transnational and intercultural performance practitioners has been equally significant.

In addition to his mentoring of graduate students and countless junior col-leagues, Richard Schechner has consistently authored, edited, and pub-lished the most innovative and provocative scholarship on theatre and per-formance studies, both through his role as editor of TDR and through his own publications. Even as he creates new and exciting paradigms for current research, his previously published texts have become seminal clas-sics and guiding foundations for the field, here in the United States as well as in other regions of the world including Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Throughout Asia and in diasporic Chinese nations in particular (including Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and mainland China itself, including Hong Kong), Richard’s influence has transformed academic theatre studies. Along with the translation of his many monograph texts and articles into Chinese and other Asian languages, and the dissemination of his theo-ries and praxis through educators trained under his guidance at NYU, performance studies branches of institutions of higher education have emerged because of his profound influence. The recently established Schechner Center for Performance Studies at the Shanghai Theatre Academy is one case in point.

Richard graciously accepts invitations from all over the country and the world to speak at universities, conferences, and theatres in order to disseminate dialogue about intercultural theatre work and its emergent paradigms. He continues scholarly field work on festivals in India that he initiated decades ago, exhibiting his simultaneous commitment to lifelong research interests as well as newly emergent topics. He has been a consistently generous contributor as a member of the Association for Asian Performance and a cherished mentor and colleague to all of its members.

Schechner also continually creates and collaborates on experimental intercultural theatre productions as a director. His long list of recent productions reflects his global outreach and influence, as well as his genuine desire to promote theatre forms for artists and experiences for audiences that are enlightening, engaging, and international.

Richard devotes considerable time and energy to advocacy and public service. His recent participation in the project Home, New Orleans? (a series of performances in the devastated New Orleans neighborhoods during Lent-Easter season 2007, based on a scenario conceived by Richard) is but one example of his long list of contributions to the public good. In short, Richard not only has a brilliant mind, a formidable work ethic, a creative spirit, and a global reach, but also a huge heart.


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ATHE Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education Judith Royer, C.S.J., Loyola Marymount University, is the recipient of the 2008 Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education.

Judith Royer was honored this Spring for 35 years of teaching and service at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, where she currently teaches acting, playwrit-ing, dramatic literature/criticism, is a director, and is the founder of the Playwrights Center Stage Series for the development/performance of both student and guest professional writer/artist new works. She has directed over thirty-five revivals and forty original scripts in the United States and British Isles. She has worked as pro-ducer, director, and dramaturg with new play development programs sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, Playwrights Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum and Theatre Gallery in Los Angeles, of which she was founder and former artistic director.

Royer was producing director for the Southern New Plays Festival, sponsored by Southern Repertory Theatre in New Orleans, and has directed new works and/or American premiers at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, at New Dramatists, Alice’s Fourth Floor, and the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York, as well as the Victory Theatre, Gascon Center Theatre, and Interact Theatre Company in Los Angeles.

Judith was awarded a Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for her work in fostering new plays and playwrights around the country. Royer is a founding member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education; former Chair of that organization’s Act-ing Program; a Past-Chair of the Playwrights Program; current New Play Production Coordinator for the Playwrights Program; and co-director of ATHE’s annual New Play Development Workshop. She is a past member of the National Playwriting Commit-tee for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Board and currently continues working with KC/ACTF as the Respondents Workshop Coordi-nator for Region VIII, Pacific Southwest.

Selection Committee:Judith Williams, Chair, University of FloridaGladys Crane, University of WyomingGeorgia Gresham, Loyola UniversityDoug Paterson, University of Omaha, Nebraska

David Mark Cohen Playwriting AwardGeorge Brant is the 2008 David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award recipient for his play, Elephant’s Graveyard. George Brant is currently in his final year as a Playwriting Fellow at the James A. Michener Center for Writers. His work has been produced in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Austin. His plays have been selected for the Prop Theatre New Play Festival, the Circle Theatre New Play Festival and the WordBRIDGE Playwright’s Lab, and have been finalists for the Clauder Competition, the Bay Area Playwright’s Festival, the Hangar Theatre Lab, the Herrick Theatre Foundation’s New Play Competition and the Keene Prize for Literature.

Elephant’s Graveyard has been workshopped at WordBRIDGE Playwright’s Lab, had readings at both Seattle’s Capitol Hill Arts Center and Providence’s Trinity Repertory Theatre, and has received a student production at the University of Texas at Austin, directed by Trinity Reper-tory’s Laura Kepley.

Selection Committee:Dennis Black, University of North Carolina at CharlotteJudith Royer, Loyola Marymount University




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Jane Chambers Playwriting AwardMary F. Casey is the 2008 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award recipient for her play, Unspeakable Acts. Ms. Casey has received numerous awards for her plays. She was the recipient of the 2003 Butcher Scholar Award through the Women of the West Museum and the Autry National Center. Mary was a finalist for the 2007 Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Her full-length play, Women and Horses and A Shot Straight From the Bottle, a 2000 finalist for the Jane Chambers Award, received its world premiere at Echo Theatre in Dallas, Texas, in 2006 and was nominated for three Leon Rabin Awards through the Dallas Theatre League. Her short plays have been produced at Secret Rose Theatre, Celebration Theatre and Theatre of NOTE in Los Angeles – and at the Six Women Theatre Festival down the road in Manitou Springs. Mary lives in Southern California.

During the repressive McCarthy Era, a tenured, nationally prominent UCLA physical education professor is suspended for alleged illicit lesbian activities at her home. Based on historical events, Unspeakable Acts follows one woman’s courageous and lengthy struggle against a power-ful institution and the larger society’s censure. Opposed by an ambitious university dean, she risks everything to try to regain her position, her partner and to restore her good name.

Selection CommitteeChair, Maya Roth, Georgetown University & David Performing Arts CenterCo-coordinator, Priscilla Page, New WORLD Theater and University of Massachusetts, Amherst

ATHE Excellence in Editing AwardJohn Gronbeck-Tedesco, professor, University of Kansas, is the 2008 recipient of the Sustained Achievement Award for Excellence in Editing for editing the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 1986-2007. John Gronbeck-Tedesco co-founded the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism with Paul Newell-Campbell “on a shoestring” at the Univer-sity of Kansas in 1986. Professor Gronbeck-Tedesco served as editor from the founding of the journal until 2007, and he remains a consulting editor for that publication. JDTC was one of the first journals in theatre to explicitly proclaim an interest and commitment to contemporary theory and its relevance to the field, and, as noted on its website, “The Journal publishes full-length articles that contribute to the varied con-versations in dramatic theory and criticism, explore the relationship between theory and theatre practice, and/or examine recent scholarship by a single author.” The journal has published some of the most significant figures in theatre studies and, in the words of one supporter, “has remained a place of genuine discourse about the field.”

Professor Gronbeck-Tedesco joined the faculty of the Department of Theatre and Film, University of Kansas, in 1979. He is the author of Acting Through Exercises: Journeys for the Actor, published in 1992, which received the “Best Book in Theatre Pedagogy and Practice” award from ATHE. He is also the author of several plays including Tony and the Telephone Pole, Prairie Fire, Parts I and II, The Four Horsemen, and Coming Here, A Trilogy, as well as a translation of Machiavelli’s The Mandrake. In addition to his teaching and writing, Professor Gronbeck-Tedesco works as a director. Selection committee:Chair, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Loyola Marymount UniversityDavid J. Jortner, Baylor UniversityThomas E. Postlewait, University of Washington

ATHE 2008 Award for Outstanding Book in Theatre Practice and PedagogyATHE’s 2008 Award for Outstanding Book is presented to Alicia Arrizón for her groundbreaking book, Queering Metizaje: Transculturalism and Performance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006--released in 2007).

Alicia Arrizón is professor and chair of the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She received her PhD from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University in 1992. Her academic interests are firmly situated in contemporary cultural and performance studies, with a strong commitment to the examination of race and ethnicity and their interchange with gender and sexuality studies. Interdisciplinary concerns link her to the fields of performance and visual arts, literature, and critical race theory. She is the author of Latina Performance (Indiana University Press, 1999), designated an “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries and coauthor of Latinas on Stage (Third Woman Press, 2001). Her most recent book, Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Perfor-mance (published by the University of Michigan Press, 2006) was awarded the fifth annual MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies for outstanding scholarship (2007). Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance brilliantly examines the notion of “mestizaje” (the mixing of indigeous peoples with European colonizers) in the contexts and common colonial histories of the United States, Latin America and the Philippines. It effectively “queers” the intercultural body (and “mestizas” the queer), drawing on an eclectic postcolonial cultural studies methodology that cites and contributes significantly to performance studies, queer, and feminist theories. Its transnational/transcultural approach legitimates complex topographies of subaltern history and changes the way we think about the performance.

Selection Committee:Ric Knowles, Chair, University of GuelphJeanne Colleran, John Carroll UniversityHaipang Yan, University of California, Los Angeles



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ATHE 2008 Award for Outstanding ArticleEmily Roxworthy is the 2008 recipient of the ATHE Award for Outstanding Article. Her piece, “’Manzanar, the eyes of the world are upon you’: Performance and Archival Ambivalence at a Japanese American Internment Camp, “ was publishing in Theatre Journal, 59, 2007. Emily Roxworthy is an assistant professor on the PhD faculty in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. Emily Roxworthy’s “’Manzanar, the eyes of the world are upon you’: Performance and Archival Ambivalence at a Japanese American Internment Camp” demonstrates an impressive synthesis of historical research and theoretical analysis and an important rethinking of ethnic American performance histories and practices. In historicizing and theorizing the role of performance in the administration and daily life of the Manza-nar Internment Camp, this essay brings together a wide-ranging investigation of both archive and performance that consists of present day commemorations, Ansel Adams’s photography, advertisements and reviews from the internee newspaper Manzanar Free Press, scrapbooks, Cynthia Gates Fujikawa’s 1999 one-woman show “Old Man River,” and, at the center of the analysis, four performances staged by internees between 1942 and 1944: The Hospital Open House (1942), The Fourth of July Carnival (1943), The Evening for Issei (1944), and the operetta Loud and Clear (1944).

Looking at this range of cultural performances that shaped what she calls Manzanar’s “camp politics”---how Manzanar was both lived by in-ternees and interpreted by the nation-Roxworthy provides new methods by which we can apprehend, understand, and respect the ways that intercultural performance and spectatorship are practiced, disguised, and continued under hostile and historically violent conditions. Concep-tually, historically, and theoretically ambitious, it not only provides an important reconsideration of internee performance and its role in shaping discourses of nationalism and immigration, but also offers methods and conclusions that will have a wide impact on theatre and performance studies more generally.

Honorable mention: Mike Sell, “Bohemianism, The Cultural Turn of the Avantgarde, and forgetting the Romá,” TDR, 51, 2007. Selection Committee:David Román, Chair, University of Southern CaliforniaKate Johnson, Miami University of OhioShane Vogel, Indiana University

2008 Awards CommitteeChair, Vice President, Robert Schanke, Central College, EmeritusDennis Black, David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award Chair, University of North Carolina, CharlotteRic Knowles, Book Award Chair, University of GuelphPriscillaPage,Co-coordinator,JaneChambersAward,NewWORLDTheatre,UniversityofMassachusetts,AmherstDavidRomán,OutstandingArticleAwardChair,UniversityofSouthernCaliforniaMaya Roth, Chair, Jane Chambers Award, Georgetown UniversityFrank Trezza, Member, SUNY New PaltzKevin J. Wetmore, Editorial Excellence Award Chair, Loyola Marymount UniversityJudithWilliams,OutstandingTeacheroftheYearinHigherEducationAward,Chair,UniversityofFloridaNominator, Career Achievement in Professional TheatreWilliamDoan,MiamiUniversityofOhioNominator, Career Achievement in Academic TheatreClaire Conceison, Tufts University



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ATHE CAREER ACHIEVEMENT INPROFESSIONALAND ACADEMIC THEATREPast winners are:

Year Education Profession2008............Richard Schechner ............... Bill Irwin2007............Jorge Huerta ........................ Robert Woodruff 2006............Sue Ann Park ....................... Christopher Newton2005............Robert Benedetti .................. Jon Jory2004............Leon Katz ............................. William Hutt2003............Vernell A. W. Lillie ................. Adrian Hall2002............Sidney Berger ....................... Edward Albee2001............Don B. Wilmeth .................... Martha Coigney2000............M. Lin Wright ........................ Robert Brustein1999............Robert Cohen ....................... Anne Bogart 1998............Arthur Lessac ....................... Zelda Fichandler 1997............James V. Hatch .................... Augusto Boal 1996............Margaret B. Wilkerson .......... Ruby Dee &

Ossie Davis 1995............Marvin Carlson ..................... Ellen Stewart 1994............Kristin Linklater..................... Jose Quintero1993............Winona L. Fletcher ............... Alice Childress 1992............Burnett M. Hobgood ............ Maria Irene Fornes1991............Oscar Brockett ..................... Lloyd Richards1990............Vera Mowry Roberts ............. Frank Galati1989............Helen Krich Chinoy .............. Ming Cho Lee1988............Patricia McIlrath ................... Marsha Norman1987.......................................................... Roger L. Stevens

OUTSTANDINGTEACHER OFTHEATREINHIGHER EDUCATIONPast winners are:

2008............Judith Royer, CSJ, Loyola Marymount University2007............Sandra L. Richards, Northwestern University2006 ...........Diana Mady Kelly, University of Windsor2005............Vivian Fusillo, Winona State University2004............James Symons, University of Colorado - Boulder2003............Suzanne Burgoyne, University of Missouri - Columbia2002 ...........Bill Harbin, Louisiana State University2001............Felicia Hardison Londre, University of Missouri - Kansas City2000............Ronald A. Willis, University of Kansas1999............Edgardo de la Cruz, California State University, Hayward1998............Jewel Walker, University of Delaware1997............Leonard Pronko, Pomona College1996............Jonathan Levy, SUNY-Stonybrook1995............Stanley Kauffmann, Columbia University1994............James K. Brandon, University of Hawaii1993............Grant McKernie, University of Oregon

ATHEAWARDFOR OUTSTANDINGBOOKPast winners are:

2008............Alicia Arrizón2007............Esther Kim Lee2006............Carrie Sandahl and Phil Auslander2005............Shannon Jackson2004............Diana Taylor2003............Katrin Seig2002............Anthony Tatlow2001............Freddie Rokem2000............Michal Kobialka1999............David Roman1998............John D. Cox and David Kastan1997............Katherine E. Kelly1996............Kathy A. Perkins and Roberta Uno1995............W. B. Worthen1993............Robert Barton1992............John Gronbeck-Tedesco





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ATHEAWARDFOR OUTSTANDINGARTICLEPast winners are:

2008............Elizabeth Colburn-Roxworthy2007............Stacy Wolf2006............Margaret Werry2005............Rustom Bharucha2004............Susan Leigh Foster2003 2002............Elin Diamond2001............Andrea Most2000............Jennifer Havie and Erin Hurley1999............Marc Robinson1998............Stanton B. Garner, Jr.1997............Penny Farfan1996............David Savran1995............Coco Fusco1994............Shearer West1993............Joseph Roach1992............Frantisek Deak1986............Carole J. Carlisle

ATHE EXECELLENCE IN EDITING AWARDPast winners are:

2008............John Gronbeck-Tedesco2007............Thomas Postlewait2006............Harry J. Elam, Jr.2005............Samuel Leiter2004............Robert A. Schanke2003............Don Wilmeth2002............University of Michigan Press

DAVIDMARKCOHEN PLAYWRITING AWARDPast winners are:

2008............George Brandt2007............Ben Clawson2006............Romulus Linney2005............Ed Stevens2004............LeeAnne Hill Adams2003............Molly Smith Metzler2002............Attilio Favorini, Lynne Conner2001............Elizabeth Wong2000............Edward EmanuEl

JANE CHAMBERSPLAYWRITING AWARD

2008............Mary F. Casey2007............Christine Evans200620052004............Madeleine George2003 2002 2001............Bernadette Flagler2000............Terry Lawrence1999............Mindi Dickstein1998............Elizabeth Wong1997............Brighde Mullins1996............Kathleen Cahill (book and lyrics), Deborah Wicks LaPuma (music)1995............Rosemarie Caruso1994............Lisa Loomer1993............Christina de Lancie1992............Sherry Kramer1991............Wendy Kesselman1990............Jenna Zark1989............Arlene Fanale1988............Gloria Parkinson1987............Micki Goldthorpe1986............Patricia Montley1985............Charlotte Anker and Irene Rosenberg1984............Karen Boettcher

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