John Epperson,
John Lahr, and
Gerald Schoenfeld will be among those celebrating the authors of outstanding performing arts books on Friday, June 2nd. A
host of distinguished presenters will gather for the 38th Annual
Theatre Library Association Book Awards on in the
Bruno Walter Auditorium of The New York Public Library for the
Performing Arts, located at Lincoln Center.
John Epperson, also
known as his glamorous alter ego, Lypsinka, will present the George
Freedley Memorial Award, honoring excellence in writing on live theatre
during 2005, to Kathryn Shevelow for
Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress' Flamboyant Adventures in London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World (Henry Holt & Company). The Freedley
Special Jury Prize will go to Linda Ben-Zvi for
Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times (Oxford University Press). The award will be presented by
Glaspell scholar and author, Martha C. Carpentier.
The Encyclopedia of Early Cinema (Routledge), edited by Richard Abel is the winner of the
2005 TLA Award for excellence in writing on film and broadcasting.
Eileen Bowser, Curator Emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art's
Department of Film and Video, will present the award, which will be
accepted by film curator Charles Silver. The TLA Special Jury Prize
goes to Daniel Goldmark, author of
Tunes for Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon (University of California Press). Goldmark will
receive his award from film composer Ronald Sadoff.
The Freedley
Award is named for George Freedley, the first Curator of the New York
Public Library's Theatre Collection, and first President of the Theatre
Library Association. It is presented annually for the best book on
live theatre published in the United States in the previous year. The
Theatre Library Association Award is given annually for the best book
published the previous year in the area of recorded performance. A
cash prize accompanies each award.
Three recipients of TLA's
award for Distinguished Achievement in Service and Support of
Performing Arts Libraries will also be honored. The award, given to
individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the field,
will be presented by Shubert Organization Chairman
Gerald Schoenfeld to
Maryann Chach, Director/Chief Archivist of the Shubert Archive; by
senior drama critic for
The New Yorker, John Lahr, to theater historian
and writer Dr. Mary C. Henderson; and by Phyllis R. Klotman, Professor
Emeritus of Afro-American Studies, Indiana University, to Madeline
Fitzgeral, Library of Congress.
The
presentation will take place promptly at 6:00 P.M. in the Bruno Walter
Auditorium of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
(enter at Amsterdam and 65th Street).d Matz, former Reference and Research Specialist in the Motion
Picture and Television Reading Room A champagne reception will
follow. Doors open at 5:30.
