The 23rd
Annual B. Iden Payne Awards
presented by Austin
Circle of Theaters
1996 - 1997 Nominees &
Winners
Winners
in red
|| Special Recognition Awards
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|| Productions
|| Play || Musical || Children's ||
|| Leads || Actor/Play || Actress, Play || Actor/Musical || Actress/Musical || Actor/Children || Actress/Children ||
|| Features || Actress/Play || Actor/Play || Actor/Musical || Actress/Musical || Actor in a
Children's Production || Actress in a
Children's Production ||
|| Directors || Play || Musical || Children's Production
||
|| Music Director || Choreographer || Original Script ||
|| Design || Set || Lighting
|| Sound || Costume
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|| Corporate Award ||
Special Recognition Award
This year there were three
winners of the lifetime achievement award. This is the first time
in ACoT history more than one lifetime achievement award was
awarded.
- Michael
Jaroschy
- Eva Paloheimo
- Alice Wilson
PRODUCTION,
PLAY
- The Birthday Party (Critical Mass)
- Craving Gravy (UT Drama)
- Jack & Jill (Zachary Scott)
- Julius Caesar (Vortex)
- A Perfect Ganesh (Different
Stages)
- Shakin' the Mess Out of Misery (First
Stage)
- Sylvia
(Zachary Scott)
- Vinegar Tom (UT Drama)
PRODUCTION,
MUSICAL
- The Gospel at
Colonus (Zachary Scott)
- Grease (St. Edward's)
- Panoptikon (Vortex)
- Peter Pan (Austin Musical Theatre)
- Ruthless! (Zachary Scott)
- Sweeney Todd (Live Oak)
- Water (Refraction Arts Project)
PRODUCTION,
CHILDREN'S
- The Christmas
Schooner (Austin Theatre for Youth)
- Deep in the Heart of Texas (Children
of Light Players)
- Olympian Tales (Mary Shaver)
- The Hardy Boys In the Mystery of the
Haunted House (Austin Theatre for Youth)
- Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing
(Zachary Scott Theatre Project Interact)
- The Velveteen Rabbit (kidsActing)
LEAD
ACTOR, PLAY
- Scott Allegrucci (Deviant Craft)
- Michael Arthur (Craving Gravy)
- Marc Balester
(A Perfect Ganesh)
- Dan Dietz (The Battle of San Jacinto)
- Jim McQueen (Sylvia)
- Marco Perella (Jack & Jill)
- Michael Stuart (Cyrano de Bergerac)
- LEAD
ACTRESS, PLAY
-
- Roxy Becker (Pale Idiot)
- Roxy Becker (The Ravaging)
- Emily Balanoff
(Sylvia)
- Sonja Parks (dyke/warrior-prayers)
- Molly Rice (The Battle of San Jacinto)
- Meredith Robertson (Jack & Jill)
- Karma Stewart (Shakin' the Mess Outta
Misery)
- Catherine Uldrich (Why We Have a Body)
- Amy L. Washburn (Craving Gravy)
-
- LEAD
ACTOR, MUSICAL
-
- Timothy C. Curry (Gospel at Colonus)
- Mick D'Arcy (Panoptikon)
- Jonathan Freeman (Peter Pan)
- William Earl Ray (Gospel at Colonus)
- Dan Sullivan (Guys & Dolls
[Friends Summer Musical])
- Joe York (Ruthless!)
- Joe York
(Sweeney Todd)
LEAD
ACTRESS, MUSICAL
- Kara Bliss (Guys & Dolls [Friends
Summer Musical])
- Kristi Lynes (Peter Pan)
- Andra
Mitrovich (Love, Janis)
- Linda Nenno (Into the Woods)
- Laura Powell (Once Upon a Mattress)
- Meredith Robertson (Ruthless!)
- Janis M. Stinson (Gospel at Colonus)
LEAD
ACTOR, CHILDREN
- Tommy McDonald (Velveteen Rabbit)
- Daniel Shea (Velveteen Rabbit)
- Dan Sullivan
(Christmas Schooner)
- Adrian Walter (Monkey King)
LEAD
ACTRESS, CHILDREN
- Cara Briggs (Tales of a Fourth Grade
Nothing)
- Jessica Calvello (Monkey King)
- Sarah French (Velveteen Rabbit)
- Linda Nenno
(Christmas Schooner)
- Julie Slim (Deep Heart Texas)
- Eliza Wren (Hardy Boys)
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- FEATURED
ACTOR, PLAY
-
- Martin Burke
(A Family Affair)
- Joseph Gibson (subUrbia)
- Kevin Madden (Glass Menagerie)
- Jason A. Phillips (A Perfect Ganesh)
- Everett Skaggs (Shadowlands)
- David Stahl (Sylvia)
- Greg Wise (Vinegar Tom)
FEATURED
ACTRESS, PLAY
- Aimee
McCormick (Glass Menagerie)
- Paula Rester (Why We Have a Body)
- Susan Romweber (Vinegar Tom)
- Janelle Schremmer (Vinegar Tom)
- Cynthia Taylor-Edwards (Shakin' the
Mess Outta Misery)
- Johanna Whitmore (Julius Caesar)
FEATURED
ACTOR, MUSICAL
- Ron Berry (Water)
- John W. Robinson (Gospel at Colonus)
- Roderick D. Sanford (Gospel at
Colonus)
- Scott
Schroeder (Peter Pan)
- William Walden (Woody Guthrie's
American Song)
- Kenneth Williams (Gospel at Colonus)
- Dana Younger (A Saga of Billy the Kid)
- FEATURED ACTRESS, MUSICAL
-
- Lauren Adrian (Grease)
- Judy R. Arnold (Gospel at
Colonus)
- Kara Bliss (Once Upon a
Mattress)
- Sharron Bower (Peter Pan)
- Barbara Chisholm (Ruthless!)
- Jacqui
Cross (Gospel at Colonus)
- Felicia A. Dinwiddie (Gospel
at Colonus)
- Gretchen Kingsley (Woody
Guthrie's American Song)
- Meta Rosen (Ruthless!)
- Janis Stinson (Ruthless!)
FEATURED ACTOR IN A CHILDREN'S
PRODUCTION
- Ev
Lunning Jr. (Hardy Boys)
- Maurice Ripke (Tales of a
Fourth Grade Nothing)
- Richard Woolsey (Velveteen
Rabbit)
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-
- FEATURED ACTRESS IN A
CHILDREN'S PRODUCTION
- Erin Byrne (Velveteen Rabbit)
- Erika Hagler (Velveteen
Rabbit)
- Carla
Nickerson (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
- Brandi Wilsher (Monkey King)
DIRECTOR
OF A PLAY
- Daniel Alexander Jones
(Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery)
- Kati Koerner (Craving Gravy)
- Kirsten Kern (Pale Idiot)
- Barry Pineo (Birthday Party)
- Alice Wilson (Jack &
Jill)
- Alice Wilson (Sylvia)
- Laura
Worthen (Vinegar Tom)
- DIRECTOR
OF A MUSICAL
- Bonnie Cullum (Panoptikon)
- Allen Robertson (Woody Guthrie's
American Song)
- Dave Steakley (The Gospel at Colonus)
- Dave Steakley (Ruthless!)
- Scott Thompson & Richard Byron
(Grease)
- Scott Thompson & Richard Byron
(Peter Pan)
- David Yeakle (Saga of Billy the Kid)
- Dana Younger
(Water)
-
-
- DIRECTOR OF A CHILDREN'S PRODUCTION
- Mary Alice
Carnes (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
- DeDe Clark (Velveteen Rabbit)
- Rick Schiller (Christmas Schooner)
- Rick Schiller (The Hardy Boys...)
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-
- MUSIC
DIRECTOR
- Noel Alford (Velveteen Rabbit)
- Fred Barton (Peter Pan)
- Shawn Gough (Grease)
- Allen Robertson (The Gospel at
Colonus)
- Allan
Robertson (Ruthless!)
- Allen Robertson (Sweeney Todd)
- Morris Stevens Jr. (Christmas
Schooner)
- William Walden & Alice Spencer
(Water)
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- CHOREOGRAPHER
- Christopher Boyd (Once Upon a
Mattress)
- Rod Caspers (Branson or Bust)
- Bryan Green & Connie Brockman
(Lucifa)
- Scott Thompson & Richard Byron
(Grease)
- Scott Thompson
& Richard Byron (Peter Pan)
- Dave Steakley (The Gospel at Colonus)
- Dave Steakley (Ruthless!)
- David Yeakle (Saga of Billy the Kid)
ORIGINAL
SCRIPT
- David Bucci (Stranger Desire)
- Erik Ehn, The F@HP Co. &
Friends (Enfants Perdus)
- Graffito (Mad lzm)
- Kirk
Lynn (Pale Idiot)
- Ruth E. Margraff (The Battle
of San Jacinto)
- Kirk Smith (A Tale of Two
Cities)
- John S. Walch (Craving Gravy)
- T.J. Walsh (Random Acts of
Kindness & Senseless Beauty)
SET
DESIGN
- Kim Koym (Shakin'the Mess
Outta Misery)
- Christopher
McCollum (Peter Pan)
- Christopher McCollum (Sylvia)
- Michael Raiford (The Gospel
at Colonus)
- Michael Raiford (Ruthless!)
- Leilah Stewart (Vinegar Tom)
- Jim Weisman (Once Upon a
Mattress)
- Joe York & Don Toner
(Sweeney Todd)
LIGHTING
DESIGN
- Jason
Amato (Panoptikon)
- Jason Amato (Saga of Billy
the Kid)
- Don Day (Jack & Jill)
- Scott Hochhalter (Vinegar
Tom)
- Laura J. Sandberg (Sweeney
Todd)
- Sherri Stovall (Shakin' the
Mess Outta Misery)
- Robert Whyburn (The Gospel at
Colonus)
- Robert Whyburn (Once Upon a
Mattress)
- Robert Whyburn (Peter Pan)
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- SOUND
DESIGN
-
- Lisa Byrd (Once Upon a
Mattress)
- ethos (Panoptikon)
- Kevin
Freedman (ClayAngels)
- Jimy Gunn (Ten Feet Down
& Looking Up)
- Gunn Brothers (Glass
Menagerie)
- Mae McDonnell (Gospel at
Colonus)
- Mac McDonnell (Ruthless)
- J. Daniel Stanley (Vinegar
Tom)
- COSTUME
DESIGN
- Pamela Wolf Fletcher (Julius
Caesar)
- T'Cie Mancuso & Chad
Salvata (Panoptikon)
- Sara Medina-Pape & Beth
Colton (Twelfth Night - St. Ed)
- Michael
Raiford (Ruthless!)
- Cindi Turnbull-Langley (Guys
& Dolls - Summer Musical)
- Simone Williams (Vinegar Tom)
CORPORATE
AWARD
Quadralay
Corporation (accepted by Bill Hoover)
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