Join Us for the 2018 TLA Book Awards Ceremony
The Theatre Library Association is delighted to invite you to the annual presentation of the TLA Book Awards, honoring English language works of scholarship on theatre, film, and broadcasting, published in 2018.
The TLA Book Awards Ceremony will include remarks from some of this year’s winners, a pop-up exhibition of related special collections materials from the holdings of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the George Freedley Memorial Award, and a brief reception.
Where: Café of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts*, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY
When: 7 PM on Friday, October 18, 2019. (Doors open at 6:45.)
The 2018 George Freedley Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance will be awarded to Debra Caplan for Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy, published by the University of Michigan Press. A Special Jury Prize will be awarded to Kevin Winkler for Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical, published by Oxford University Press. This year’s Freedley Award Jury consisted of James Fisher, Annie Holt, and Beth Kattelman.
The 2018 Richard Wall Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of recorded performance will be awarded to Maya Montañez Smukler, for Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema, published by Rutgers University Press. A Special Jury Prize will be awarded to J. E. Smythfor Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood, published by Oxford University Press. This year’s Wall Award Jury consisted of David Pierce, Shelley Stamp, and Stephen Tropiano.
The Louis Rachow Distinguished Service in Performing Arts Librarianship Award for 2019 will be awarded to Norton Owen, curator, writer, and archivist with more than 45 years of professional experience in dance. He has been associated with Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival since 1976.
Reserve your seat online today! (For assistance with online reservations, please visit the welcome desk at the Library for the Performing Arts’ Lincoln Center Plaza entrance, where volunteers will make a reservation for you, even if you do not use email.)
Please email tlabookawards@gmail.com with any questions.
*This event takes place in the Library for the Performing Arts’ Cafe, on the first floor, Lincoln Center Plaza level. Enter via the Cafe entrance by ascending the stairs at the corner of Amsterdam Ave. and West 65th St. Mobility impaired people may enter via 111 Amsterdam Ave.
Questions? Email us at: TLABookAwards@gmail.com