Documenting: Lighting Design (Performing Arts Resources, Vol. 25) - Softcover

Susan Brady (Editor); Nena Couch (Editor); Jennifer Tipton (Forward)

9780932610201: Documenting: Lighting Design (Performing Arts Resources, Vol. 25)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 093261020X ISBN 13: 9780932610201

Publisher: Theatre Library Association, 2007

From the Editors' Introduction: "With Documenting: Lighting Design the Theatre Library Association presents the first of several planned volumes focusing on performance design documentation to assist archivists, librarians, curators and collectors of performing arts special collections, as well as students and faculty of design, in identifying, describing, interpreting, preserving and researching the tangible evidence of the design process."

The full list of contributors includes: Susan Brady, Maryann Chach, Nena Couch, Chrystyna Dail, Linda Essig, Barbara Knowles, Karl G. Ruling, Susan Stelts, Mary Tarantino, Jennifer Tipton, William B. Warfel, and Fredric Woodbridge Wilson.

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About the Author:

Susan Brady (Editor) is an archivist at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, currently processing the Theatre Guild Archive. She has held librarian/archivist positions at Yale in the Arts Library, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Department of Manuscripts and Archives, and at the Harvard Theatre Collection. Susan has served as a board member, vice-president, and president of the Theatre Library Association, and is co-chair of the Performing Arts Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists. She edited Volume 21 of Performing Arts Resources, After the Dance: Documents of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. Susan has presented papers and planned and chaired programs at annual meetings of TLA/ASTR, ALA, and SAA, and has served on numerous committees focusing on performing arts documentation, cataloging, and access. She holds graduate degrees in Theatre History and Criticism and Library Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Nena Couch (Editor) is Curator of The Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, and Professor, The Ohio State University Libraries and Department of Theatre. Her publications include The Humanities and the Library (co-edited with Nancy Allen); "Dance Collections" in Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries; Sidney Kingsley: Five Prizewinning Plays (editor); articles in The International Dictionary of Modern Dance and A Core Collection in Dance; and others. With Karen Eliot, Nena adapted Alexander Pope's poem The Rape of the Lock as a Baroque-style ballet. She was the 2000 recipient of the Howard D. Rothschild Fellowship for Research in Dance, awarded by the Harvard Theatre Collection. She has served on the board of the Theatre Library Association and is on the Dance Heritage Coalition board. Nena received the B.A. and M.M. degrees from George Peabody College for Teachers and the M.L.S. from Vanderbilt University.

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