Billy McEntee (photo by Amanda Mustard) Billy McEntee, theater editor, freelance writer, theater maker, inaugural ATCA Helbing fellow and current active committee member, was named a co-winner of the 2024-2025 George Jean Nathan Award in February of this year. (The celebratory reception for the winners was...
Brittani Samuel Brittani Samuel, a freelance theater critic who writes for The New York Times, The Washington Post and Broadway News, and was the 2022 inaugural winner of ATCA's Edward Medina Prize for Excellence in Cultural Criticism, has been named winner of the 2023-24 George Jean...
Vinson Cunningham New Yorker magazine theater critic Vinson Cunningham has been named winner of the 2021-22 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. According to the February 6, 2023 press release posted on the website of the Cornell Chronicle, the award committee highlighted the critic's “lucid, lyrical,...
Maya Phillips Cornell University’s Department of English, which administers the award for excellence in dramatic criticism endowed by Cornell alumnus, the late George Jean Nathan (1882-1958), awarded Maya Phillips, New York Times critic at large and ATCA member, the 2020-21 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism....
Soraya Nadia McDonald Cornell University’s Department of English, which administers the award for excellence in dramatic criticism endowed by Cornell alumnus, the late George Jean Nathan (1882-1958), awarded ATCA member Soraya Nadia McDonald the 2019-2020 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. The award is given by a prize committee including...
Scott Brown, Nathan Award The recipient of the 2012-23 prize, the most prestigious in our field (except for the Pulitzer, which only occasionally might go to a theater critic), is Scott Brown, theater critic for New York Magazine from 2010-2013. He has been a columnist at Wired magazine...