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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.

Recipients of the Greggs Awards

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. Henderson
"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" 2-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
 
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