The shortlists for three of the 2022 TaPRA prizes have now been announced:

TaPRA Postgraduate Essay Prize 2022 Shortlist

The TaPRA Postgraduate Essay Prize aims to recognise and support excellent postgraduate scholars within theatre and performance disciplines. The prize includes the opportunity to be mentored towards publication in a major academic journal. Read more here: http://tapra.org/the-tapra-postgraduate-essay-prize/

There were nine entries for the prize this year. Following a process of peer review, a shortlist of three has been arrived at. The shortlisted articles are as follows:

• Essential work: Eastern European immigrants and models of participation. Bojana Jankovic, PhD candidate, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
• Scenographic ‘stuff’: perceiving everyday objects in performance (and beyond). Georgia Hook, MA Performance Design, University of Leeds
• Let it burn: smell, participation and solidarity in Travis Alabanza’s Burgerz. Emma Welton, PhD candidate, Queen Mary University of London

Many congratulations to the authors of the shortlisted essays.

Sincere thanks to reviewers from Studies in Theatre and Performance and Contemporary Theatre Review for their work in providing detailed and constructive feedback for all the authors.

Many thanks, too, to those of you who worked with prospective entrants and coached them in developing their essays.

The panel of judges who will decide on the winner(s) are:
Claire Hampton, Wolverhampton University
Rob Dean, University of Lincoln
Kay Hepplewhite, Northumbria University

We will announce the winner(s) at the TaPRA conference in September.

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TaPRA Edited Collection Prize 2022 Shortlist

This prize is for an edited collection (a book of essays or a special issue of a journal) that defines new approaches in research in theatre and performance, opening up new areas of work and new lines of enquiry.

We received eleven excellent nominations this year and we are very pleased to announce the following collections have been shortlisted for the prize:

• Clare Parfitt, Cultural Memory and Popular Dance: Dancing to remember, dancing to forget
• Dassia N. Posner, Kevin Bartig, and Maria De Simone, Three Loves for Three Oranges: Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev
• Melissa Blanco Borelli, Bryce Lease, Royona Mitra, “Outing Archives / Archive Outings” special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review, Volume 31: Numbers 1–2

Many thanks to the members of the TaPRA Prizes sub-committee who read all the work and participated in the shortlisting process.

The panel of judges who will decide on the winner(s) are:
Aoife Monks, QMUL
Theron Schmidt, Utrecht University
Trish Reid, University of Reading

We will announce the winner(s) at the TaPRA conference in September.

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TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize 2022 Shortlist

This prize recognises outstanding achievement in scholarly research in the form of a published monograph for researchers at any stage of their career.

We received nine excellent nominations this year and we are very pleased to announce the following collections have been shortlisted for the prize:

• Selina Busby, Applied Theatre: A Pedagogy of Utopia
• Arabella Stanger, Dancing on Violent Ground: Utopia as Dispossession in Euro-American Theater Dance
• Rashna Darius Nicholson, The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853–1893)

Many thanks to the members of the TaPRA Prizes sub-committee who read all the work and participated in the shortlisting process.

The panel of judges who will decide on the winner(s) are:
Rachel Hann, Northumbria University
Kelina Gotman, King’s College, London
Katie Beswick, University of the Arts, London

We will announce the winner(s) at the TaPRA conference in September.