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VSR Awards
The journal has three annual awards:
Dudley Knight Award for Outstanding Vocal Scholarship
This award is named in memory of Dudley Knight, a former
VSR
Editor and Distinguished VASTA member. The award is open to peer reviewed research articles. Winners receive a complimentary 1-year VASTA membership.
Previous winners:
2023 - Kris Danford, Lee Roosevelt, Alexandra Vroom, Lisa Harris & Ruth Zielinski for
Impolite Birth: Theatre Voice Training and the Experience of Childbirth
2022 -
Michael Dean Morgan
for
Quarantine Stories - VASTA: From Concurrent Pandemics to Innovation
2021 -
Daron Oram
for
Decentering Listening: Toward an Anti-Discriminatory Approach to Accent and Dialect Training for the Actor
2020 - Eric Armstrong , Shannon Vickers , Katie German & Elan Marchinko for
Accent and Language Training for the Indigenous Performer: Results of Four Focus Groups
2019 -
Lynn Watson, Rachel Hirshorn-Johnston, Sean R. O’Bryan & Tyler Davis
for
Fitzmaurice Voicework Pilot Study with fMRI
2018 -
Andrea Caban
for
Accent Modification, Voicework, and ALS: A Case Study in Prolonging the Ability to Speak
2017 -
Joanna Cazden
for
Stalking the Calm Buzz: How the Polyvagal
Theory Links Stage Presence, Mammal Evolution, and the Root of the Vocal Nerve
2016 -
Deric McNish
for
The Performance of Fluency
Rocco Dal Vera Graduate Research Award
This award is named in memory of Rocco Dal Vera, the founding
VSR
Editor and Distinguished VASTA member. This award is open to articles that were based on graduate research.
Winners receive a complimentary 1-year VASTA membership.
Previous winners:
2023 - Alan R. White for
Keep the Arrows: Interrogating Discrimination in Fandom Through Solo Performance
2022 -
Sarah Nichols
for
Bridging the Gap between Voice Coaches and Sound Designers in the Theatre
2021 -
Jennifer Innes
for
Communication and Resilience in Acting Students: A Qualitative Study
2020 - No winner
2019 -
Ryan Ellis
for
Shaping Words:
From Speech to Song, Linguistic Principles and Rhythmic Expressivity in Choral Performance
2018 -
Joy Lanceta Coronel
for
Coaching Asian Actors and Asian Accents with Cultural Sensitivity
2017 -
Kate Glasheen
for
Negotiating the Contrary Craft of the Triple-Threat
2016 -
Melissa Kollwitz
for
Breath, Tremoring, and Performance Anxiety
VSR
Forum Article of the Year Award
This award is open to authors in the Forum section of the journal, who offer relevant academic conversations and experienced-based or opinion-based articles.
Winners receive a complimentary 1-year VASTA membership.
Previous winners:
2023 - Cynthia Bassham for
The Hy Life: Reflections on a Hybrid Voice Teacher Training Event
2022 -
Warren Chu
for
The Adventures and Challenges of Trailblazing The Linklater Work in China
2021 -
Brett Myers
, Brian Manternach & Karin Titze Cox for
Voice Screenings for University Students: The Why and The How
2020 - Margaret Laurena Kemp for
It Is All about Love. Listen to Me, Y’all. Yeah
2019 -
Robert Sussuma
for
Baring the Bones: Making the Shift from a Muscular to a Skeletal Paradigm in Voice Training
2018 -
Jennifer Spencer
for
Performing Arts Training in the Age of #MeToo
2017 -
Matthew Hoch
for
The Legacy of William Vennard andn D. Ralph Appelman and Their Influence on Singing Voice Pedagogy: Reflections after 50 Years (1967-2017)
2016 -
Shannon Holmes
for Autoethnography and Voicework:
Autobiographical Narrative and Self-reflection as a Means toward Free Vocal Expression
Award Details
The Editor nominates three to four articles every year for each category. Members of the entire
VSR
Editorial Board vote for the winners. The Editor decides any tie. The awards are announced online on or around May 1st of each year.
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