Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA's large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.
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Lifetime Achievement Award
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2015 |
M. Susan Anthony |
| 2014 |
James Brandon |
| 2013 |
Monica Anderson |
| 2012 |
Jonas Nissen |
Mid-Career Award
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2015 |
Noah Lelek |
| 2014 |
Vicki Crooks |
| 2013 |
Megan Moe |
| 2012 |
Patricia Friel |
| 2012 |
Prairie Endres-Parnell |
Top Paper Award
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2021 |
Arthur D. Soto-Vasquez"The Post-Racial Fantasyland of Live-Action Disney Remakes" |
| 2021 |
Valerie Lynn Schrader"The Case for Katherine Howard: Reconstructing Public Memory of Henry VIII’s Fifth Queen through the Musical 'Six'" |
| 2019 |
Valerie Lynn Schrader, "'Sing Me a Song of a Lass that is Gone': Public Memory and the Use of Music in the Television Series Outlander" |
| 2019 |
Josie Ganzermiller, "Creative Persuasion: Enhancing Well-Being and Self-Efficacy Through Theatrical Performance" |
| 2019 |
Patricia E. Friel, "How Theatre and Animals Help Women Survive Domestic Violence" |
| 2019 |
Kevin Brown, "Stage, Frame, and Window: Erwin Piscator and Inflections of the Virtual" |
| 2014 |
Kirt Shineman, “Puppets Appraise the Top Goon: Masasit Mati’s ‘Top Goon’ Puppet Theatre as a Carnivalesque Critique of Syrian President Bashar Assad” |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2021 |
Sophia Bates"Sharing 'The Music of My Soul': A Rhetorical Analysis of Invitational Rhetoric in the Musical Memphis" |
| 2021 |
Courtney Weikel"'Talk Less, Smile More', Exploring Facework through Hamilton’s Lead Characters" |
| 2019 |
Militant Survival and Black Liberation in Get Out, Erin Victoria Zamora & Kelsey T. Abele Motivation for Theatre Participation: A Study of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Regulation, Megan Westhoff |
| 2019 |
Anna Wilcoxen, "Surviving the Shadow or Surviving the Guilt: A Semi-Autoethnographic Theoretical Response to 'In the Shadow of his Language'" |
| 2019 |
Zachary Sheldon, "God Said 'You’re Hearing the Voice of the President': Citizenship in The Trump Prophecy" |
| 2014 |
Alane Presswood, “’Everybody is in the Labyrinth’: Subverting Gothic Traditions and Rebuilding Terministic Screens” |
Debut Paper Award
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2013 |
Serap Erincin, “Connecting to Past Performances: The Technologized Body as Archive and the Reincarnation of the Dead in the Work of the Wooster Group” |
Contributed Paper Award
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2013 |
Stephan Christopher Stifano, “Make Belief: Examining Rational and Affective Dimensions of Communication Among Creators of Narrative Film Media” |
