Noël Coward Fellowship Recipient Announced

The Noël Coward Foundation and New York Public Library for the Performing Arts are delighted to announce the inaugural Noël Coward Fellowship has been awarded to Dr. Arianne Johnson Quinn. The fellowship was launched in honour of Noël Coward and marking the centenary of Coward’s first visit to New York in 1921.

Dr. Arianne Johnson Quinn is the Music Special Collections Librarian at the Warren D. Allen Music Library, Florida State University. She holds the MA and PhD in Musicology from Princeton University, MA in Music/Women’s and Gender Studies from Brandeis University, and BA (Honors) in Music from the University of New Mexico. She is formerly a member of the Honors Program Faculty at FSU, and has also taught at South Georgia State College, Tallahassee Community College, Princeton University, and Brandeis University. Her research focuses on the intersections between the American and British musical in London’s West End from 1920-1960, particularly Noël Coward, Kurt Weill, Lerner and Loewe, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hammerstein. She has a forthcoming monograph on the history of the musical from 1920-1970 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (Palgrave MacMillan).

The outcome of the fellowship will be a research guide publication of Coward holdings at the NYPL for the Performing Arts, digitization of significant holdings, a publication related to her research, and she will also curate a case exhibition for the library. Dr. Quinn will present her work in the Bruno Walter Auditorium.