Announcement of the winners of CATR/ACRT Awards

[Scott, Shelley]

At the banquet of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research/ Association canadienne de la recherche théâtrale (CATR/ACRT),  held in Fredericton on May 30, 2011, the following awards were presented.

 

The inaugural CATR/ACRT Award was presented to Mia Perry. These new awards of $500 are the result of our successful fundraising campaign and are intended to help participants attend and present their research at the annual conference. 

 

The $1,000 Heather McCallum Scholarship was awarded this year to Richard Wilcox in support of his research on Daniel MacIvor. 

 

The selections for the CATR / ACTR 2010 - 2011 Scholarly Awards are: 

 

Another new award, the Patrick O'Neill Award for Editing, was presented to:

Louise Forsyth, ed. Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation. Vol III (1997-2009). Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 2010.

 

Special mention was also made for two other editors:

Cynthia Zimmerman, ed. Reading Carol Bolt.  Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 2010.

M. André Bourassa, ed. La Trilogie inachevee. Montreal: L'instant scene, 2010.

 

The Saddlemyer Award for a Book in English or French had two winners this year:

Erin Hurley for  National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion. University of Toronto Press, 

 and Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston for Staging Strife: Lessons from Performing Ethnography with Polish Roma Women. McGill-Queen's UP.

The Godin Award for an article in French was presented to:                              

Yves Jubinville , "Inventaire après liquidation : étude de la réception des Fées ont soif de Denise Boucher (1978)" published in Annuaire théâtral 46 (2010).

 

Honourable mention went to Lucie Robert for "Yvette Mercier-Gouin ou Le désir du théâtre," also published in Annuaire théâtral 46 (2010).

 

The  Plant Award for an article in English also had two winners this year:

Barry Freeman for "Navigating the Prague-Toronto-Manitoulin Theatre Project: A Postmodern Ethnographic Approach to Collaborative Intercultural Theatre."TRIC 30.1-2 (2009): 58-81,

 

and Yana Meerzon for "The Exilic Teens: On the Intracultural Encounters in Wajdi Mouawad's Theatre," TRIC 30 1-2 (2009): 82-110.

 

And the 2011 CATR/ACRT Honorary Membership was awarded to Jenny Munday for her outstanding contribution to Canadian theatre.

 

Congratulations to all!

Special thanks are due to Kathleen Irwin, the Scholarly Awards Coordinator, and to all the members of the selection committees. Full details, including the membership of each committee and citations for the selections, will appear in the Fall Newsletter, which may be accessed on the Association website, www.catr-acrt.ca, where more information about the awards and lists of previous winners can also be found.

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