The B. Iden Payne nominating committee of the Austin Circle of Theatres has just made public the nominations for ACOT's B. Iden Payne awards. ACOT members will be invited to download the list, vote and return votes for tabulation.
The awards and pre-show reception will once again be at the Rollins Studio Theatre in the Long Center:
Sunday, October 18th. The Pre Show reception begins at 5:30pm and the show at 7pm.
Dave Buckman of The Frank Mills and show coordinator for the Austin Improv Collective will direct the show itself.
ACoT’s special "Outstanding Contribution to Austin Theater" Award recipient will be Shannon Sedwick. And
Robert Faires will do the presenting honors.
2008-2009 B. Iden Payne nominations (partial list)
COMEDIES
Outstanding Production of a Comedy
As You Like It (Scottish Rite Theater)
Black Snow (TUTTO Theatre Company)
Cyrano de Bergerac (SEU Mary Moody Northen Theatre)
House of Several Stories (Imagine That Productions)
Killer Joe (Capital T Theatre)
Outstanding Director of a Comedy
A. John Boulanger (House of Several Stories)
Beth Burns (As You Like It)
Mark Pickell (Killer Joe)
Michelle S. Polgar (Cyrano de Bergerac)
Dustin Wills (Black Snow)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy
Martin Burke (Bastian, House of Several Stories)
Scott Daigle (Orlando, As You Like It)
Tyler Jones (Simon Bliss, Hay Fever)
David M. Long (Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyrano de Bergerac)
Gabriel Luna (Sergei Leontievich Maxudov, Black Snow)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy
Lauren Lane (Sue, House of Several Stories)
Lorella Loftus (Susan, Good Things)
Meredith McCall (Rissa, House of Several Stories)
Bernadette Nason (Kate, Sylvia)
Jennifer Underwood (Miss Witherspoon, Miss Witherspoon)
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Comedy
Travis Dean (mugged shopper, “Windchimes and Varicose Cream,” I ♥ Walmart)
Matt Radford (Clive, Martin, Cloud 9)
Justin Scalise (Adam, Silvius, As You Like It)
Justin Scalise (William Slate, Kill Will)
Mason Stewart (corporate executive, “Rebranding Meeting,” I ♥ Walmart)
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Comedy
Suzanne Balling (Maryamma, Miss Witherspoon)
Sarah Burkhalter (Edward, Lin, Cloud 9)
Smaranda Ciceu (Ivan Vasilievich, Black Snow)
Jennifer Coy (Twink Futrelle, Christmas Belles)
Jenny Gravenstein (Virginia Madden, Age of Arousal)
DRAMAS
Outstanding Production of a Drama
Fences (City Theatre Company)
Glengarry Glen Ross (City Theatre Company)
The Grapes of Wrath (Zachary Scott Theatre Center)
Ophelia (TUTTO Theatre Company)
Orestes (Cambiare Productions)
Outstanding Director of a Drama
Andy Berkovsky and Charles P. Stites (Glengarry Glen Ross)
Susie Gidseg (Touch)
Will Hollis Snider (Orestes)
Dave Steakley (The Grapes of Wrath)
Dustin Wills (Ophelia)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama
Marc Balester (Bernard 1, Bernard 2, Michael, A Number)
David Christopher (Tom Joad, The Grapes of Wrath)
Gabriel Luna (Orestes, Orestes)
Nigel O’Hearn (Edmund Tyrone, Long Day’s Journey Into Night)
Tom Truss (Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, The Idiot)
Andrew Varenhorst (Kyle Kalke, Touch)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama
Janelle Buchanan (Ma Joad, The Grapes of Wrath)
Shannon Grounds (Tish, The Long Now)
Rachel McGinnis (Heidi Holland, The Heidi Chronicles)
Adriene Mishler (Iphigenia, Iphigenia)
Xochitl Romero (Una, Blackbird)
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Drama
Wray Crawford (Shelley Levene, Glengarry Glen Ross)
Sean Martin (Porter, Seyton, Macbeth)
McArthur Moore (Gabriel, Fences)
Justin Scalise (Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet)
Gabriel Smith (Peter, The Heidi Chronicles)
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Drama
Michele Goodson-Burnett (Shana, “Brownies,” Muses III)
Jan Phillips (Nancy, Third)
Anne Putnam (Felicity, The Shadow Box)
Miriam Rubin (Agnes, The Shadow Box)
La Tasha Stephens (Voice of the People, Orestes)
Full list available at ACOT blog or at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .
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