Kevin Winkler is a librarian and archivist, and a former dancer, whose MacDowell residency was devoted to work on Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical, published by Oxford University Press. Big Deal won the Theatre Library Association’s 2018 George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize for an exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance, and was a finalist for the 2018 Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing. He is an on-camera commentator in the new documentary Merely Marvelous: The Dancing Genius of Gwen Verdon, available for streaming on Amazon Prime.
Kevin has served as a consultant for Lincoln Center Education, curating resources to accompany PBS Lincoln Center Live performances available throughout New York City public libraries. He is the editor of Their Championship Seasons: Acquiring, Processing, and Using Performing Arts Archives (Theatre Library Assn.) and co-edited the entry on performing arts libraries in International Dictionary of Library Histories (Fitzroy Dearborn). Kevin is a contributor to Performing Processes: Creating Live Performances (Intellect Books), The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era (University of Michigan Press), and Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater (University of Michigan Press). In 2010 Kevin received TLA’s Distinguished Service in Performing Arts Librarianship Award. He is at work on his next book, Everything is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune, to be published by Oxford University Press.