Nominate a Theatre Production Book for 2017 Golden PenNominations are now open for USITT's top publications award, the 2017 Oscar G. Brockett Golden Pen Award. Anyone can nominate their favorite technical theatre book at www.usitt.org/goldenpen. The deadline to nominate is August 15, 2016. This annual award recognizes an outstanding book-length publication in the field of performing arts design and production. The award comes with a cash prize, free USITT Conference registration, and two nights' hotel stay at USITT 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri. The winner will be honored with a special session and book-signing at USITT's 2017 Annual Conference & Stage Expo March 8 - 11 in St. Louis. Established in 1986, the Golden Pen award was renamed last year for scenic designer, author, and scholar Oscar G. Brockett. The cash award was added thanks to a partnership with the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism at the University of Texas at Austin. A scene design book Brockett co-authored, Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States, won the 2010 Golden Pen just a few months before his death. Books nominated for the Brockett Golden Pen must have been published within the past three years and show outstanding scholarly research and presentation of the work and methodology of exceptional design and technology practitioners, or descriptions of methods, skills, and technology involved in creating works of theatre. This year's Golden Pen winner was Arnold Aronson, author of Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design. Previous winners include Christen Essin (2015) for Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America, Eric Fielding and Peter McKinnon (2014) for World Scenography 1975-1990, and Richard Pilbrow (2013) for A Theatre Project. The books are available for purchase at the URL below. 
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