Awards

Theatre, Film, and New Multi-Media Division

Interest Group Awards

Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA's large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.

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Lifetime Achievement Award

Year Award Winner
2015 M. Susan Anthony
2014 James Brandon
2013 Monica Anderson
2012 Jonas Nissen

Mid-Career Award

Year Award Winner
2015 Noah Lelek
2014 Vicki Crooks
2013 Megan Moe
2012 Patricia Friel
2012 Prairie Endres-Parnell

Top Paper Award

Year Award Winner
2021 Arthur D. Soto-Vasquez"The Post-Racial Fantasyland of Live-Action Disney Remakes"
2021 Valerie Lynn Schrader"The Case for Katherine Howard: Reconstructing Public Memory of Henry VIII’s Fifth Queen through the Musical 'Six'"
2019 Valerie Lynn Schrader, "'Sing Me a Song of a Lass that is Gone': Public Memory and the Use of Music in the Television Series Outlander"
2019 Josie Ganzermiller, "Creative Persuasion: Enhancing Well-Being and Self-Efficacy Through Theatrical Performance"
2019 Patricia E. Friel, "How Theatre and Animals Help Women Survive Domestic Violence"
2019 Kevin Brown, "Stage, Frame, and Window: Erwin Piscator and Inflections of the Virtual"
2014 Kirt Shineman, “Puppets Appraise the Top Goon: Masasit Mati’s ‘Top Goon’ Puppet Theatre as a Carnivalesque Critique of Syrian President Bashar Assad”

Top Student Paper Award

Year Award Winner
2021 Sophia Bates"Sharing 'The Music of My Soul': A Rhetorical Analysis of Invitational Rhetoric in the Musical Memphis"
2021 Courtney Weikel"'Talk Less, Smile More', Exploring Facework through Hamilton’s Lead Characters"
2019 Militant Survival and Black Liberation in Get Out, Erin Victoria Zamora & Kelsey T. Abele Motivation for Theatre Participation: A Study of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Regulation, Megan Westhoff
2019 Anna Wilcoxen, "Surviving the Shadow or Surviving the Guilt: A Semi-Autoethnographic Theoretical Response to 'In the Shadow of his Language'"
2019 Zachary Sheldon, "God Said 'You’re Hearing the Voice of the President': Citizenship in The Trump Prophecy"
2014 Alane Presswood, “’Everybody is in the Labyrinth’: Subverting Gothic Traditions and Rebuilding Terministic Screens”

Debut Paper Award

Year Award Winner
2013 Serap Erincin, “Connecting to Past Performances: The Technologized Body as Archive and the Reincarnation of the Dead in the Work of the Wooster Group”

Contributed Paper Award

Year Award Winner
2013 Stephan Christopher Stifano, “Make Belief: Examining Rational and Affective Dimensions of Communication Among Creators of Narrative Film Media”