ATHE’s Excellence in Editing Award honors both individual achievements in editing and sustained achievement in editing over extended periods of time. These awards are given in rotation. This year, in which we celebrate sustained achievement in editing, the winner is:

Joanne Tompkins
Professor of Theatre Studies
The University of Queensland

Joanne Tompkins, from the University of Queensland, has published widely on spatiality and theatre, among other topics. She has co-edited/edited Modern Drama and Theatre Journal, and special issues of Contemporary Theatre Review and Australasian Drama Studies. The Australasian Drama Studies Association named an editing prize after her. She is a Fellow of Australia’s Academy of Humanities; the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Queen Mary, University of London; and an Executive Committee member for the International Federation for Theatre Research.

Acceptance Speech

Interview

ATHE offers special thanks to the Excellence in Editing award subcommittee for their work this cycle.