Winners of 2012-2013 B . Iden Payne Awards for Theatre Arts, Austin

Winners announced during the ceremony at the State Theatre, Austin, on November 5, 2013:

B. Iden Payne Awards

2012 – 2013 Season

THEATER FOR YOUTH

Outstanding Production

Playground Superhero Pollyanna Theatre Company

Outstanding Direction

Judy Matetzschk-Campbell Playground Superhero


Outstanding Performer
Toby Minor (Kobyn) Playground Superhero

MUSIC THEATER
Outstanding Production

Avenue Q Austin Theatre Project

Outstanding Direction

Rudy Ramirez (write-in)

Outstanding Lead Actor

Andrew Foote (Tateh) Ragtime: The Musical


Outstanding Lead Actress

Michelle Haché (Princess Ida) Princess Ida

Outstanding Featured Actor

Nathan Jerkins (Lexy Mill) A Minister’s Wife


Outstanding Featured Actress

Libby Dees-Detling (Mae) Reefer Madness: The Musical

COMEDY
Outstanding Production

Qualities of Starlight VORTEX Repertory Company


Outstanding Direction

Rudy Ramirez Qualities of Starlight


Outstanding Lead Actor

Toby Minor (Theodore Turner) Qualities of Starlight

Outstanding Lead Actress

Liz Fisher (Kelly) The Pain and the Itch


Outstanding Featured Actor


J. Ben Wolfe (Mr. Hadid) The Pain and the Itch

Outstanding Featured Actress

Chris Humphrey (Mrs. Steve Powers, announcer) Brides of the Moon

DRAMA

Outstanding Production

Slowgirl,  Hyde Park Theatre


Outstanding Direction

Rachel Wiese The Man Who Planted Trees

Outstanding Lead Actor

Jason Newman (Doug) Gruesome Playground Injuries [Capital T]

Outstanding Lead Actress

Molly Karrasch (Becky) Slowgirl


Outstanding Featured Actor

Ryan Hamilton (Jesse Bandel, Teddy Ray Harrington) Just Outside Redemption


Outstanding Featured Actress

Beth Broderick (Harlene Corf) Just Outside Redemption

GENERAL CATEGORIES

Outstanding Set Design

Ann Marie Gordon      Qualities of Starlight


Outstanding Lighting Design

Jason Amato     Water


Outstanding Sound Design

Robert Fisher    Slowgirl

Outstanding Costume Design

Carl Booker      Little Shop of Horrors


Outstanding Music Direction


John Vander Gheynst    Little Shop of Horrors

Outstanding Dance Choreography

Toni Bravo    Earth


Outstanding Fight Choreography

Toby Minor    Coriolanus


Outstanding Original Script

Gabriel Jason Dean     Qualities of Starlight


Outstanding Original Score
Chelsea Manasseri, Rudy Ramirez, Melissa Vogt-Patterson, Michelle Alexander,

Hayley Armstrong, Jennifer Coy and Kyle Zamcheck   in  Sing Muse


Outstanding Media Design

Lowell Bartholomee Vodka, Fucking and Television


Outstanding Cast Performance

Sing Muse VORTEX Repertory Company


Outstanding Ensemble Performance

Jennifer Underwood and Dennis Bailey (parents) Qualities of Starlight


Outstanding Young Performer

a tie:

John Austin (Zeus as youth, Hades, Ganymede) Zeus in Therapy

Vincent Hooper (Youth) Passing Strange


Outstanding Puppetry

The Cruel Circus Trouble Puppet Theater Company


Special Certificates

Community outreach and accessibility in The Edge of Peace UT Department of Theatre and Dance

Being the Piano Man in 33 Variations Anton Nel

Props in Qualities of Starlight Helen Parish

Community involvement for Crab the Dog cross-promotion

in Two Gentlemen of Verona Something for Nothing Theater

Rudy Kloptic Award for Outstanding Work in Improvisational Theater

(nominated by the artistic directors of Austin’s improvisational theaters)

The Suitcase (The Institution Theater)