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George Freedley Memorial Award

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2017     Spectacular men : race, gender, and nation on the early American stage by Sarah E. Chinn; Special Jury Prize: Ellen Stewart presents : fifty years of La MaMa Experimental Theater by Cindy Rosenthal
2016     Fortune's fool : the life of John Wilkes Booth by Terry Alford; Special Jury Prize: Ira Aldridge by Bernth Lindfors
2015     Ming Cho Lee : a life in design by Arnold Aronson
2014     Wonder of wonders : a cultural history of "Fiddler on the roof" by Alisa Solomon; Special Jury Prize: Fosse by Sam Wasson
2013     The TLA Book Awards were not presented in 2013.
2012     Great lengths : seven works of marathon theatre by Jonathan Kalb; Special Jury Prize: BAM : the complete works, edited by Steven Serafin
2011     Contested Will : who wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro; Specia

George Freedley papers

1861-1971 [bulk 1935-1966]

General correspondence includes personal and professional correspondence from Freedley's friends and colleagues. Freedley corresponded with a great number of writers, producers, critics, scholars, actors, and other theatre professionals. The correspondence includes references to drama in America and England, discussion of various theatre awards, social engagements, reference requests, and requests for help in finding work or in critiquing a manuscript.

Among writers the collection includes letters from Edward Albee, Robert Anderson, Lewis John Carlino, Marc Connelly, Dina Forbes-Robertson, James Leo Herlihy, Herbert Kubly, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, Gertrude Norman, Phillip Pruneau, Elmer Rice, Dodie Smith, Gerard Willem Van Loon, and Thornton Wilder. Producers and directors who corresponded with Freedley include F. Ray Comstock, Cheryl Crawford, Hallie Flanagan, Margo Jones, Elia Kazan, John Reich, and Henry Schnitzler. The collection also includes letters from the actors Mady Ch

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