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Herbert D. Greggs Awards

Herbert D. Greggs Award (highest honor) and the Herbert D. Greggs Merit Award promote innovative, in-depth writing about theatre design and technology in TD&T. Named in honor of a highly-regarded former USITT General Manager, the Herbert D. Greggs Award was first given in 1979. The "Merit Awards" began in 1998.


The Herbert D. Greggs Award recipient is the author of an article in one of the previous year’s four issues of TD&T and is chosen by a poll of members of the Publications Committee and others selected by the Chair of the Publications Committee. Once a recipient is determined, the Publication Committee Chair submits the recommendation to the Awards & Resolution Committee who presents it to the Board of Directors for approval.

 
Recipients of the Greggs Awards
2012        Jeffrey M. Gress
               
 "Pusing Back the Darkness: The Entertainment Industry at Ground Zero on 9/11"
                Summer 2011

                Ronald Naversen
                "The Benda Mask"
                Fall 2010

                Triffin Morris & Gregory D L Morris
                "The History of the Broadway Costume Business"
                Winter 2011
 2011        Herbert D. Greggs Award
                 Catherine Bradley

                 "Changing Perceptions by Changing the Image."
                  Summer 2010
 
                Greggs Merit Award
                Jade Bettin

                "All the World's a Stage:  Control and Creation of Character 
                Through Costume."
                 Fall 2009 

2010  Herbert D. Greggs Award

          Holly Poe Durbin

          Three-part series "Seeing with Three Eyes"

          Part 1 - "Designing for Different Media" - Winter 2008

          Part 2 - "Design for Live Performance - Theatre and Themed

          Entertainment" - Spring 2008

          Part 3 - "Design for Recorded Performance - Film, Television,

          and Video Games" - Fall 2008


          Greggs Merit Award

          Patrick Atkinson

          "In the Wings:  Eugene Camille Fitch's Images of the

           Theatre" - Summer 2009

2009   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Annie O. Cleveland and M. Barrett Cleveland 
          "Fort Worth for Entertainment; Billy Rose's 
          Casa Manana (1936-1939)" 
          Winter 2008
          Greggs Merit Award
          C. Thomas Ault 
          "Color in 16th and 17th Century of Italian Stage Design "
          Summer 2008
2008   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Jon Drtina
         "A Conversation with John Ezell "
          Winter 2007
          Greggs Merit Award
          Jarka Burian
         "Designing Hamlet with Screens and Panels"
          Spring 2007
2007    Herbert D. Greggs Award
           Arnold Wengrow
          "Marjorie Kellogg: What I Care About Is Real Things"
          Spring 2006
          Greggs Merit Award
          Kimberly Poppiti
          "Gallopping Horses: Treadmills and Other Theatre
          Applicances In Hippodramas"
          Fall 2005
2006   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Deborah Bell
          "The Mask Maker's Magic"
          Winter 2005
          Greggs Merit Awards
          Bradford Clark

          "The 2005 World Stage Design Exhibition"
          Spring 2005
          Loren Schreiber and Matthew McKinney
         "Reverse Peristaltic Motion Control"
          Winter 2005
2005   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Mary C. Henderson
          "The Biltmore: A Case Study of the
          Reclamation of a Historic Broadway Theatre"
          Spring 2004
          Greggs Merit Awards
          Robert Gerlach
          "LEDs To Light the Theatre"
          Fall 2003
          Arnold Wengrow
          "Observe and Show: The Life and Art of Michael Annals"
          Spring 2004
2004   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Frank Mohler
          "Court Theatre at Mnichovo Hradiste"
          Winter 2003
          Thomas Ault
          "II Taccuino: The Design Notebook of
          Nicolo Sabatinni Da Persaro"
          Fall 2002
          Greggs Merit Awards
          Farley Richmond & Rich Dunham

          "Architecture and Design Elements in Ritual
          and Religious Drama in India"
          Spring 2003
          John Huntington
          "Rethinking Entertainment Technology Education"
          Fall 2002
          Carrie Robbins
          "Theatre Designers and the Computer"
          Fall 2002
2003   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Dr. Joe Brandesky
          "Spectacular St. Petersburg: 100 Years of
          Russian Theatre Design"
          Spring 2002
          Greggs Merit Awards
          Delbert L. Unruh
          "Shattered Mirror: A Theatre in Search of Itself"
          Parts I through IV
          Winter 2001, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Winter 2002
          Thomas J. Blalock
          "Stage Lighting in an Early-Twentieth Century Theatre"
          Winter 2002
2002   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Richard Thomas
          "The Function of the Soundscape"
          Winter 2001
          Greggs Merit Awards
          Alexandra Bonds
          "Surface Design in Jingu Costumes: The Aesthetics and
          Meanings of Embroidered Imagery in Beijing Opera"
          Spring 2001
          Mary C. Henderso
          "Post-Mielzinerism or What If...?"
          Summer 2001
2001   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Anthony A. Hostetter
          "A Disaster of Cosmic Proportions? Revisiting
          Max Reinhardt's Grosses Schauspielhaus"
          Winter 2000
          Greggs Merit Awards
          Richard D. Stephens
          "Lore & Legends in USITT History"
          Fall1999, Winter 2000, Spring 2000, Summer 2000
          Richard E. Dunham
          "Cirque du Soleil Comes to Orlando to Party"
          Spring 2000
2000   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Beeb Salzer
          "Teaching Design in a World Without Design, Part II"
          Spring 1999
          Greggs Merit Awards
          Constance Campbell
          "Inventing Josephine: The Influence of the
           Designers of the Paris Music Halls on the
           Stage Persona of Josephine Baker"
           Winter 1999
           Frank Mohler
          "Survival of the Mechanized Flat Wing Scene
          Change: Court Theatres of Gripsholm, Cesky
          Krumlov, and Drottingolm"
          Winter 1999
1999   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Alexandra Bonds
          "Beijing Opera Costumes: Discovering Meaning
          in the Costumes of Traditional Jingju"
          Fall 1997
          Greggs Merit Awards
          Rebecca Cunningham
          "Russian Women Artists/Designers of the Avant Garde"
          Spring 1998
          Beeb Salzer
          "Dipping a Toe in the Ocean of
          Creativity: Personal Thoughts & Prejudices"
          Winter 1997
1998   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Arnold Wengrow
          "Tony Walton: A Protean of American Design"
          Spring 1997
          Greggs Merit Awards
          Bruce Brockman
          "Revisiting the Twin City Scenic Collection"
          Winter 1997
          Andrew Christopher Gaupp
          "Founders Syndrome: The New Theatre's Dilemma"
          Spring 1997
1997   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Rocky Paulsen & Steve Nelson
          "Fall Protection for Arena Shows"
          Winter 1996
1996   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Kathy Perkins
          "Their Place in History: African Americans
          Behind the Scenes in American Theatre"
          Summer 1995
1995   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Beeb Salzer
          "There is No Blue in Vladivostok "
          Spring 1994
1994   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Michael Mullin
          "Design for Hamlet: The Motley Productions"
          Summer 1993
1993   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Beeb Salzer
          "Regarding Chaos and the Theatre"
          Spring 1992
1992   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Arnold Aronson
          "Contemporary American Scenic Designers: George Tsypin"
          Summer 1991
          Delbert L. Unruh
          "Postmodern Issues in Action Design" 5-part series
          Summer 1990 to Summer 1991
1991   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Don Stowell, Jr.
          "Passion, Poison, & Profession"
          Summer 1990
1990   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Beeb Salzer
          "Teaching Design in a World Without Design"
          Summer 1990
1989   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Raynette Halvorsen Smith
          "Where are all the American Women Scene Designers?"
          Spring 1989
1988   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Denis Bablet
          "Problems of Contemporary Theatre Space" 
          Fall 1987
1987   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Delbert Unruh
          "Scenography, Ethics, and the American
          Tradition of Theatrical Design"
          Spring 1986
1986   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          John von Szeliski
          "Orange County Performing Arts Center: A Design Report"
          Summer 1984
1983   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Jarka Burian
          "Contemporary British Scenography" Two-part series
          Spring 1983 & Fall 1983
1979   Herbert D. Greggs Award
          Robert Lewis Smith
          "Directory of Graduate Programs in
          Theatre Design and Technology"
          Fall 1979
          Millia Davenport
          "Robert Edmond Jones and Friends"
          Winter 1978

Other publications awards:

1969         Peter Frink and Bert Cramer, for publications on seating in Sightlines

                 C. Ray Smith for his writing on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts                






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