Awards

Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies

Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies
NCA Awards for Outstanding Scholarship

The Heston Award is given for outstanding published research and creative scholarship in interpretation and performance studies. The scholarship recognized by the award may be published in any NCA journal; in a major research or literary journal of another association or organization; in book or monograph form; or published in other than a print media, such as but not limited to live performance, film, videotape, photography, audiotape, and radio. The award is given to authors of scholarship published during the previous three-year period. The date of copyright of the published material will serve as the date of publication.


Year Award Winner
2023 Lisa Biggs, for the book, The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation
2022 Jake Simmons, Missouri State University & Travis Brisini, Louisiana State University
2021 No award givien
2020 Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock
2019 John Dennis Anderson
  Javon Johnson
2018 Tami Spry
2017 John S. Gentile
2016 Amber L. Johnson
2015 Joanne Gilbert
  Heidi M. Rose
2014 D. Soyini Madison
2013 Dustin Bradley Goltz
2012 Ragan Fox
2011 Bruce Henderson
  Harvey Young
2010 Mindy Fenske
2009 Bernadette Marie Calafell
2008 Michael Bowman
2007 Jacqueline Taylor
2006 M. Lane Bruner
2005 Shannon Jackson
2004 E. Patrick Johnson
2003 Kristin Langellier
2002 Lisa Merrill
2001 Paul Edwards
2000 Ronald J. Pelias
1999 Kirk W. Fuoss
1998 Della Pollock
1997 Judith A. Hamera
1996 Mary Frances HopKins
1995 Mary S. Strine
1994 No award given
1993 Elizabeth C. Fine
1992 Dwight Conquergood
1991 Beverly Whitaker Long
1990 Frank J. Galati