The 23rd
Annual B. Iden Payne Awards
presented by Austin
Circle of Theaters
1996 – 1997 Nominees &
Winners
W inners
in red
|| Special Recognition Awards
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|| P roductions
|| Play || Musical || Children’s ||
|| L eads || Actor/Play || Actress, Play || Actor/Musical || Actress/Musical || Actor/Children || Actress/Children ||
|| F eatures || Actress/Play || Actor/Play || Actor/Musical || Actress/Musical || Actor in a
Children’s Production || Actress in a
Children’s Production ||
|| D irectors || Play || Musical || Children’s Production
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|| Music Director || Choreographer || Original Script ||
|| D esign || 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)
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)
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…)
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)
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)
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)