We are delighted to announce the shortlists for the TaPRA Awards 2025. Thank you to everyone who nominated work or took part in the judging process for this year’s TaPRA Awards. It is always a collective process and we are grateful to everyone who invested time in helping us get this done. The shortlists are as follows:

David Bradury Monograph Prize:

• Broderick Chow, Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024).

• Lianna Mark, Theatres of Autofiction. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).

• Patrick McKelvey, Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation. (NY: New York University Press, 2024).

• Brahma Prakash, Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India. (Delhi: LeftWord, 2023).

• Ben Spatz, Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024).

Early Career Researcher Prize

• Jaswinder Blackwell-Pall ‘The “system” of service: emotional labour and the theatrical metaphor’

• Maria De Simone, “Chinese American Identity, Performance, and Immigration Law: Jue Quon Tai in Theatres and at National Borders”

• Savannah Whaley, Body as Artifact: A Value-Theoretical Reading of Ana Mendieta and Cassils

• Martin Young, In Memory of the Q-File: Spontaneity, Digital Automation, and Deskilling in Theatre Lighting

Edited Collection Award

• Stephen Greer and Phoebe Patey-Ferguson, Live Art: Radicalism and Complicity in a Scene of Constraint (Contemporary Theatre Review 34:3)

• Tracy Davis and Paul Rae, The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies

• Clare Finburgh Delijani (with Christian Biet), A New History of Theatre in France

• Bishnupiya Dutt and Silvija Jestrovic, Theatre, Activism, Subjectivity: Searching for the Left in a Fragmented World

• Johanna Linsley and Georgina Guy, Hear Tell: Describing, Reporting, Narrating, (Contemporary Theatre Review 33

Postgraduate Researcher Award

• Diego Beroiza, “Transvestite parody: Gender-Assemblages in Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis”

• Lucy Cassidy, “Magic Gloves and The Offer-Response Cycle: Practice-Led Research into Co-creating Theatre with Early Years Children”

• Marina Pallares-Ellias, “Collective Listening, Listening to the Unknown”

• Wang Qi, “Performing Power, Performing Protest: Political Performance and Metatheatre in Meng Jinghui’s The Balcony (1993)”

• Anthony Woods, “Violence, Political Economy, and the Function of Actor Training”

The Lynette Goddard Award for Research Excellence (co-sponsored with DramaHE)

• Vanessa Damilola Macaulay, “No safe place: Black women, state violence and Black cultural production”

• Mallarika Sinha Roy, Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India.

• Tia-Monique Uzor, “Tidalectic Un/mapping and the Performance of African Diasporic Imagination in the Repertory of Katherine Dunham”