The B. Iden Payne Council is pleased to present the 2010-2011 B. Iden Payne Award Nominees.  These artists have made outstanding theatrical contributions to the Austin community and we thank them.  Congratulations!

YOUTH | MUSIC THEATRE | COMEDY | DRAMA | TECHNICAL | SPECIAL

PLAY FOR YOUTH

Outstanding Production

  • Here Comes Gosling! (Pollyanna Theatre Company)
  • Just So (ZACH Performing Arts School)
  • Monsters! (kidsActing)
  • The Physicists (VORTEX Summer Youth Theatre)
  • A Year With Frog and Toad (Summer Stock Austin)

Outstanding Direction

  • Dede Clark (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast)
  • Judy Matetzschk-Campbell (Here Comes Gosling!)
  • Michael McKelvey (A Year With Frog and Toad)
  • Rudy Ramirez (The Physicists)
  • Adam Roberts (Just So)

Outstanding Performer

  • Sophia Franzella (Mouse, Young Frog, Squirrel, Stumpy Tree) A Year With Frog and Toad
  • Dylan Kittleman (Maurice) Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
  • Julie Linnard (Chunk, Admiral Pekin Duck) Ducks vs. Squirrels: Battle for the Park
  • David Meissner (Momo, Henry, Man, Watch Seller, Jean-Paul) The Adventures of Iris and Momo

MUSIC THEATRE

Outstanding Production

  • Hairspray (ZACH Theatre)
  • Hillcountry Underbelly: A Pilgrimage on the Outskirts (paper chairs)
  • I Love You Because (Penfold Theatre Company)
  • I’ve Never Been So Happy (Rude Mechanicals and Center Theatre Group)
  • Urinetown: The Musical (Summer Stock Austin)

Outstanding Direction

  • Bonnie Cullum (The Elementals: AIR)
  • Thomas Graves and Lana Lesley (I’ve Never Been So Happy)
  • Michael McKelvey (I Love You Because)
  • Michael McKelvey (Urinetown: The Musical)
  • Dustin Wills (Baal)

Outstanding Lead Actor

  • Andrew Cannata (Austin) I Love You Because
  • Arthur DiBianca (Ko-Ko) The Mikado
  • Zach Green (Leo Bloom) The Producers
  • Tyler King (Officer Lockstock) Urinetown: The Musical
  • Trevor McGinnis (Max Bialystock) The Producers

Outstanding Lead Actress

  • Kylie Baker (Housewife) di[verge]: an original play with songs
  • Elizabeth Newchurch (Julie Jordan) Carousel
  • Brooke Shapiro (Tracy Turnblad) Hairspray
  • Haley Smith (Marcy) I Love You Because

Outstanding Featured Actor

  • Aaron D. Alexander (FunkBot) Mighty Five’s Infinite Funk Odyssey
  • Brian Coughlin (Edna Turnblad) Hairspray
  • Joey Hood (Ekart) Baal
  • Tyler Mount (Roger Debris) The Producers
  • Alejandro Rodriguez (Woof) Hair

Outstanding Featured Actress

  • Chase Crossno (Svettka, Luise, Older Sister, Young Lady) Baal
  • Amy Downing (Velma Von Tussle) [June 29-Aug. 28] Hairspray
  • Amy Downing (Diana) I Love You Because
  • Sophia Franzella (Little Sally) Urinetown: The Musical
  • Janis Stinson (Motormouth Maybelle) Hairspray

COMEDY

Outstanding Production

  • August: Osage County (ZACH Theatre)
  • The Dudleys!: A Family Game (TUTTO Theatre Company)
  • An Englishwoman Abroad: Tea in Tripoli (Austin Phoenix Productions & Bernadette Nason)
  • Hunter Gatherers (Capital T Theatre)
  • Vigil (Hyde Park Theatre)

Outstanding Direction

  • Gary Jaffe (The Dudleys!: A Family Game)
  • Mark Pickell (Hunter Gatherers)
  • Dave Steakley (August: Osage County)
  • Don Toner (Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps)
  • Estevan J. “Chuy” Zarate (Dos Pocitos)

Outstanding Lead Actor

  • Shelby Davenport (Jack Tanner) Man and Superman
  • Owen Egerton (everyone) The Other Side of Sleep
  • Robert Pierson (Ibsen) Heddatron
  • Charles P. Stites (Kerr) Chesapeake
  • Xaq Webb (Emory) MilkMilkLemonade

Outstanding Lead Actress

  • Elizabeth Bigger (Janice) Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake)
  • Lana Dieterich (Violet Weston) August: Osage County
  • Lauren Lane (Barbara Fordham) August: Osage County
  • Bernadette Nason (herself) An Englishwoman Abroad: Tea in Tripoli
  • Martina Ohlhauser (Victoria) Too Many Husbands

Outstanding Featured Actor

  • Jon Wayne Martin (the men) On the Verge
  • Rupert Reyes (Uile) Dos Pocitos
  • Michael Stuart (Charlie Aiken) August: Osage County
  • Jericho Thorp (Elliot) MilkMilkLemonade
  • Mical Trejo (Mervyn) A Behanding in Spokane

Outstanding Featured Actress

  • Jennifer Coy (Mary) Cardigan
  • Jenny Gravenstein (Mac) “The Thief of Tears”, Three Viewings
  • Chris Humphrey (Nanna) MilkMilkLemonade
  • Breanna Stogner (women) Down the Drain
  • Irene White (Ivy Weston) August: Osage County

DRAMA

Outstanding Production

  • Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show (Trouble Puppet Theater Company)
  • Hedda Gabler (Palindrome Theatre)
  • A Lie of the Mind (Capital T Theatre)
  • Paradise Key (a chick and a dude productions)
  • Topdog/Underdog (City Theatre Company)

Outstanding Direction

  • Connor Hopkins (Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show)
  • Lisa Jordan (Topdog/Underdog)
  • Melissa Livingston (Paradise Key)
  • Christina J. Moore (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
  • Don Toner (The Trip to Bountiful)

Outstanding Lead Actor

  • Collin Bjork (Equality 7-2521) Anthem
  • Tom Green (Dr. Halb) Paradise Key
  • Joey Hood (Jerry) The Zoo Story
  • Ev Lunning, Jr. (George) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Justin Scalise (Hamlet) Hamlet [Scottish Rite Theatre and Black Swan Events]

Outstanding Lead Actress

  • Mary Agen Cox (Carrie Watts) The Trip to Bountiful
  • Dawn Erin (Ann Martin) Defiant
  • Babs George (Martha) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Meredith McCall (Linda Waterman) Fiction
  • Rebecca Robinson (Hannah Jelkes) The Night of the Iguana

Outstanding Featured Actor

  • Aaron D. Alexander (Papi) Fight
  • Travis Dean (Baylor) A Lie of the Mind
  • Micah Goodding (Aaron McKinney, Stephen Belber) The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
  • Daniel Sawtelle (Slim) Of Mice and Men
  • Jacob Trussell (DJ Snowstorm) Flying

Outstanding Featured Actress

  • Shannon Grounds (Fool) Lear
  • Sadé Jones (Lady in Green) for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
  • Julia Lorenz-Olsen (Ophelia) Hamlet [Scottish Rite Theatre and Black Swan Events]
  • Rebecca Robinson (Beth) A Lie of the Mind
  • Gricelda Silva (Bushy Tail) Flying

TECHNICAL

Outstanding Set Design

  • Ia Ensterä (Here Comes Gosling!)
  • Lisa Laratta (Baal)
  • Lisa Laratta (Heddatron)
  • Anne McMeeking (Fight)
  • Michael Raiford (August: Osage County)

Outstanding Light Design

  • Kathryn Eader (Eurydice)
  • Natalie George (Baal)
  • Stephen Pruitt (Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show)
  • Stephen Pruitt (I’ve Never Been So Happy)
  • Steven Shirey (Flying)
  • Steven Shirey (Uncle Vanya)

Outstanding Sound Design

  • the company (Baal)
  • the Gunn Brothers (Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps)
  • Buzz Moran (Heddatron)
  • Justin Sherburn (Flying)
  • Leegrid Stevens (The Dudleys!: A Family Game)

Outstanding Costume Design

  • Dawn Allee, Pam Martin and Jennifer Davis (A Midsummer Night’s Dream [The Baron’s Men])
  • Glenda Barnes (Urinetown: The Musical)
  • Ia Ensterä (Here Comes Gosling!)
  • Pam Friday (MilkMilkLemonade)
  • Susan Branch Towne (Hairspray)

Outstanding Music Direction

  • Chris Humphrey (The Elementals: AIR)
  • Michael McKelvey (I Love You Because)
  • Michael McKelvey (Urinetown: The Musical)
  • Allen Robertson (Hairspray)
  • Michael “Thuso” Stevens (Ti-Jean and His Brothers)

Outstanding Dance Choreography

  • Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique (Carousel)
  • Robin Lewis (Hairspray)
  • Ananda Mayi Moss and Sadé Jones (for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf)
  • Melinda Rebman and Zenobia Taylor (The Dudleys!: A Family Game)
  • Adam Roberts and Jennifer Young (Just So)

Outstanding Fight Choreography

  • Travis Dean (Hunter Gatherers)
  • Toby Minor (Lear)

Outstanding Original Script

  • Trey Deason (Cardigan)
  • Raul Garza (Dos Pocitos)
  • Kirk Lynn (I’ve Never Been So Happy)
  • Bernadette Nason (An Englishwoman Abroad: Tea in Tripoli)
  • Leegrid Stevens (The Dudleys!: A Family Game)

Outstanding Original Score

  • Adam Glasseye Beckley and Reverend Glasseye (Woyzeck)
  • Rob Greenfield and Andy Tindall (Baal)
  • Jerry Hagins, Jesse Gregg and Chris Peterson (A Lie of the Mind)
  • Chris Humphrey (The Elementals: AIR)
  • Leegrid Stevens (The Dudleys!: A Family Game)
  • Peter Stopschinski (I’ve Never Been So Happy)

Outstanding Media Design

  • Owen Egerton and Les McGehee (The Other Side of Sleep)
  • Lettuce Turnip Media and Robert Jacques (Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show)
  • Miwa Matreyek (I’ve Never Been So Happy)
  • Dan Monceaux, Angela Hill, David Bengali, Jordan Rein, Josh Lampman, David Mauro, Camilo Munar and Jake Witlen (The Dudleys!: A Family Game)
  • Will Hollis Snider (di[verge]: an original play with songs)

Outstanding Puppetry

  • Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show (Trouble Puppet Theater Company)
  • Heddatron (Salvage Vanguard Theater)
SPECIAL

Outstanding Cast Performance

  • The Dudleys!: A Family Game (TUTTO Theatre Company)
  • Hunter Gatherers (Capital T Theatre)
  • I’ve Never Been So Happy (Rude Mechanicals)
  • Morning’s at Seven (Different Stages)
  • Topdog/Underdog (City Theatre Company)

Outstanding Ensemble Performance

  • David Stahl and Michael Stuart (Clown 1 and Clown 2) Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps
  • Angelica Faye Davis, Kia Dawn Fulton and Tiffany Mann (the Dynamites) Hairspray
  • David Meissner and Toby Minor (Rabbit and Froggie) Here Comes Gosling!
  • Alejandro McDonald-Villarreal, Aaron Niemuth, Eva McQuade, Heath Thompson, Gene Storie and Samantha Smith (the mechanicals) A Midsummer Night’s Dream [The Baron’s Men]
  • Roderick Sanford and Joshua Denning (Tom Collins and Angel Dumont Schunard) RENT

Outstanding Young Performer

  • Ryan Borses (Toad) A Year With Frog and Toad
  • Joshua Michael Braun (Newton) The Physicists
  • Keith Gruber (Kolokolo Bird) Just So
  • Ben Roberts (Bobby Lazenbee) Monsters!
  • Xander Slay-Tamkin (Möbius) The Physicists

Rudy Kloptik Award for Outstanding Work in Improvisational Theatre (Nominated by the artistic directors of Austin Improv Collective)

  • Austin Secrets (The Hideout Theatre)
  • Confidence Men (The Institution Theater)
  • Get Up (Gnap! Theater Projects)
  • The Megaphone Show (The New Movement Theater)
  • Midnight Society (ColdTowne Theater)

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