PLAY FOR YOUTH

Outstanding Production

• A Year With Frog and Toad (Summer Stock Austin)

Outstanding Direction

• Rudy Ramirez (The Physicists)

Outstanding Performer

• David Meissner (Momo, Henry, Man, Watch Seller, Jean-Paul) The Adventures of Iris and Momo

MUSIC THEATRE

Outstanding Production

• I’ve Never Been So Happy (Rude Mechanicals and Center Theatre Group)

Outstanding Direction

• Thomas Graves and Lana Lesley (I’ve Never Been So Happy)

Outstanding Lead Actor

• Andrew Cannata (Austin) I Love You Because

Outstanding Lead Actress

• Haley Smith (Marcy) I Love You Because

Outstanding Featured Actor

• Brian Coughlin (Edna Turnblad) Hairspray

Outstanding Featured Actress

• Janis Stinson (Motormouth Maybelle) Hairspray

COMEDY

Outstanding Production

• The Dudleys!: A Family Game (TUTTO Theatre Company)

Outstanding Direction

• Gary Jaffe (The Dudleys!: A Family Game)

Outstanding Lead Actor

• Shelby Davenport (Jack Tanner) Man and Superman

Outstanding Lead Actress

• Lauren Lane (Barbara Fordham) August: Osage County

Outstanding Featured Actor

• Michael Stuart (Charlie Aiken) August: Osage County

Outstanding Featured Actress

• Chris Humphrey (Nanna) MilkMilkLemonade

DRAMA

Outstanding Production

• Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show (Trouble Puppet Theater Company)

Outstanding Direction

• Connor Hopkins (Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show)

Outstanding Lead Actor

• Justin Scalise (Hamlet) Hamlet [Scottish Rite Theatre and Black Swan Events]

Outstanding Lead Actress

• Babs George (Martha) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Outstanding Featured Actor

• Travis Dean (Baylor) A Lie of the Mind

Outstanding Featured Actress

• Rebecca Robinson (Beth) A Lie of the Mind

TECHNICAL

Outstanding Set Design

• Ia Ensterä (Here Comes Gosling!)

Outstanding Light Design

• Natalie George (Baal)

Outstanding Sound Design

• Leegrid Stevens (The Dudleys!: A Family Game)

Outstanding Costume Design

• Susan Branch Towne (Hairspray)

Outstanding Music Direction

• Chris Humphrey (The Elementals: AIR)

Outstanding Dance Choreography

• Melinda Rebman and Zenobia Taylor (The Dudleys!: A Family Game)

Outstanding Fight Choreography

• Travis Dean (Hunter Gatherers)

Outstanding Original Script

• Leegrid Stevens (The Dudleys!: A Family Game)

Outstanding Original Score

• Leegrid Stevens (The Dudleys!: A Family Game)

Outstanding Media Design

• Dan Monceaux, Angela Hill, David Bengali, Jordan Rein, Josh Lampman, David Mauro, Camilo Munar and Jake Witlen (The Dudleys!: A Family Game)

Outstanding Puppetry

• Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show (Trouble Puppet Theater Company)

Outstanding Cast Performance

• The Dudleys!: A Family Game (TUTTO Theatre Company)

Outstanding Ensemble Performance

• Roderick Sanford and Joshua Denning (Tom Collins and Angel Dumont Schunard) RENT

Outstanding Young Performer

• Joshua Michael Braun (Newton) The Physicists

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

• Confidence Men (The Institution Theater)

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)

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)

The B. Iden Payne Awards organizers and Austin Creative Alliance Monday evening jointly announced that—after 37 years as a special event of the Alliance—the B. Iden Payne Awards Council (BIPAC), has become a separate, sponsored project of the Austin Creative Alliance.

The Council is composed of a group of volunteers who remain focused on recognizing artistic excellence within the Austin theatre community, and will continue with creation and distribution of the nomination ballot for voting community members.

Marcy Hoen, Interim Executive Director of Austin Creative Alliance says, “We are so proud that this venerable Austin tradition, which has been woven into our own history as an organization, has now grown to the point where it can spin off into its own, distinct organization.” She adds, “We look forward to many years of collaboration with the Council.”

BIPAC on Monday also announced the nominees and details for the October 24th Awards ceremony, which will be held at the State Theatre.

Voting members will pay a small membership fee to BIPAC. 100% of membership fees will be used to fund the annual B. Iden Payne Awards ceremony, as well as cover administrative costs associated with creation and distribution of the nomination ballot each season.

The public announcement will be held in conjunction with the Austin Creative Alliance’s “Creative Mix Up at Takoba” event, to be held Monday, September 26th, at Takoba, located at 1411 E. 7th Street.

The event will begin at 6:00 PM, and BIPAC Executive Director, Julie Wright, will be the keynote speaker for the evening. Ms. Wright will be discussing the changes to the B. Iden Payne Awards Council for the upcoming theatrical season. In addition, Council members will be present to answer any questions with regard to these changes.

Please join us at Takoba to kick off another stellar season of Austin theatre!

We are now accepting applications for new council members for the 2011-2012 season!!

Visit our Join the Council page to learn more about setting up an interview!