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Joe A Callaway Prize

The Joe A. Callaway Prize

The Department of English, New York University

The prize, sponsored by the Department of English at New York University, is awarded every other year for the best book on drama or theater published during the previous two years by an American author.  The award grants $9000 to the author of the winning book as decided by a panel of three distinguished professors in the fields of drama and theater.

Eligibility:

Books nominated should have been published in 2006 or 2007 and should treat subjects in drama and theatre, including biography, criticism, history, and theory.

Previous Winners

1992 Steve Vineberg, Method Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting style

1994 W.D. King, Henry Irving’s Waterloo

1996 Spencer, Golub, The Recurrence of Fate: Theatre and Memory in the Twentieth-Century Russia

1998 Joseph Roach, Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance

2000 Lisa Merril, When Romeo Was a Woman, and Philip Auslander, Liveness

2002 Marvin Carlson, The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine

2004  Katrin Sieg, Ethnic Drag,: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

2006 Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker, Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory and Urban Performance in India since 1947

The next round of competition is for books published in 2006 and 2007. Publishers are invited to nominate authors by sending 3 copies of their books no later than January 30, 2008 to:

Professor Una Chaudhuri

Department of English

19 University Place, Room 518

New York, NY 10003

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