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    RICHARD SCHECHNER WINS 2010 THALIA AWARD

    Broadway World
    Monday, February 1, 2010

    New York University professor and professor of performance studies in
    the department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts
    Richard Schechner has been awarded the 2010 Thalia Award. The award
    is presented annually by the International Association of Theatre
    Critics and will be given to Schechner at a ceremony in Yerevan,
    Armenia June 16th to 20th.

    The Thalia Award was presented to Schechner for his work as editor
    of The Drama Review, one of the world's leading theatre related
    publications and his work on a number of published books that
    contributed to the theatre. Schechner has been editor of the journal
    since 1986.

    Richard Schechner directs both new and classical plays around the
    world. In New York, he founded The Performance Group and East Coast
    Artists. With TPG, Schechner directed Spalding Gray in six productions
    from 1970 to 1979: Makbeth (after Shakespeare), Commune (group
    devised), Sam Shepard's The Tooth of Crime, Bertolt Brecht's Mother
    Courage, Terry Curtis Fox's Cops, and Jean Genet's The Balcony. With
    ECA and in India, China, and South Africa, Schechner directed Chekhov's
    Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Aeschylus's Oresteia, Seneca's
    Oedipus, Shakespeare's Hamlet, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black
    Bottom, and Saviana Stanescu's and Schechner's Yokastas Redux.

    In addition to his directing, Schechner is University Professor of
    Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU and editor of
    TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. He is the author of many books
    including Environmental Theater, Between Theater and Anthropology,
    The End of Humanism, Performance Theory, The Future of Ritual, and
    Performance Studies-An Introduction.

    The IATC draws together more than two thousand theatre critics,
    through some fifty National Sections. Founded in Paris in 1956, the
    IATC is a non-profit, Non-Governmental Organization benefitting under
    statute B of UNESCO.

    The purpose of the IATC is to bring together theatre critics in
    order to promote internationAl Cooperation. Its principal aims are
    to foster theatre criticism as a discipline and to contribute to the
    development of its methodological bases; to protect the ethical and
    professional interests of theatre critics and to promote The Common
    rights of all its members; and to contribute to reciprocal awareness
    and understanding between cultures by encouraging international
    meetings and exchanges in the field of theatre in general.

    The IATC holds a world congress every two years, seminars for young
    critics twice a year, as well as symposiums, and contributes to jurys.

    English and French are the association's two official languages,
    and its place of incorporation is Paris.

    Photo Credit: Humanities Institute
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