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Monday, June 4, 2007
Austin Critics’ Table Award Winners
Austin Critics’ Table Award Winners, 2006-2007
THEATRE
Production, Drama ‘In On It,’ dirigo group
Production, Comedy ‘The Assumption,’ Refraction Arts
Production, Musical ‘Parade,’ Mary Moody Northen Theatre
Direction Marcus McQuirter, ‘Funnyhouse of a Negro’ Dave Steakley, I’ Am My Own Wife’/’Present Laughter’/’Take Me Out’
Acting in a Leading Role Jill Blackwood, ‘As You Like It’ Breanna Stogner, ‘I Love My Dead Gay Son’/’Psycho Beach Party’ Ken Webster, ‘St. Nicholas’/’Thom Pain (based on nothing)’
Acting in a Supporting Role Ron Berry, ‘The Assumption’ Quincy Kuykendall, ‘Parade’
Ensemble Performance ‘Red Cans,’ Rubber Repertory Company
David Mark Cohen New Play Award ‘My Child, My Child, My Alien Child,’ Zell Miller III
Musical Direction Michael McKelvey, ‘The Music Man’/’Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’/’Parade’/’Big River’
Movement Robin Lewis, ”The Music Man’/’Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’/’Big River’
Touring Show, Theatre ‘Hamlet,’ Actors from the London Stage
DESIGN
Scenic Design Cliff Simon, ‘Present Laughter’ Chase Staggs, ‘The Assumption’/’Macbeth’
Costume Design Susan Branch, ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’/’Present Laughter’ Sarah Mosher, ‘The Way of the World’
Lighting Design Jason Amato, ‘Requiem’/’I Am My Own Wife’/’The Souls of Our Feet’/’Take Me Out’
Sound Design William Meadows, ‘Requiem’
Video Design K. Eliot Haynes, ‘The Assumption’
DANCE
Dance Concert ‘Requiem,’ Blue Lapis Light ‘The Souls of Our Feet,’ Tapestry Dance Company
Short Work “Room,” Fuse Box Festival, Deborah Hay, Linda Austin, Tahni Holt
Choreographer Sharon Marroquin, “Creative Process: Weekday 6:00AM,” Hot September Flurries/ “Upstream,” Suite … Peggy Lee/”Prayer 1-4,” Dance Carousel 2007
Dancer Theresa Hardy, ‘Requiem’ Aara Krumpe, “Serenade”/Golden Section Nicole Whiteside, ‘Requiem’
Ensemble ‘The Souls of Our Feet,’ Tapestry Dance Company
Touring Show, Dance ‘The Bends of Life,’ Wideman/Davis Dance, Dance Umbrella
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Symphonic Performance Shostakovich: Symphony no. 13 ‘Babi Yar,’ Nikita Storojev with Austin Symphony Orchestra
Chamber Performance ‘Two to Tango: Nuevo Tangos of Astor Piazzolla,’ Austin Chamber Music Center
Choral Concert ‘Crossing the Divide’ Closing Gala Concert, Conspirare, et al.
Opera ‘Waiting for the Barbarians,’ Austin Lyric Opera
Singer Phillip Hill, ‘Plump Jack’/’Fall of the House of Usher’ Richard Salter, ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’
Original Composition/Score “DSCH” & Symphony No. 5, Graham Reynolds
Instrumentalist Marianne Gedigian, Liebermann: Flute Concerto, UT Symphony
Classical Ensemble Tosca String Quartet, Dialogues 2006/Dialogues 2007
Body of Work/Season Austin Chamber Music Center
ART:
Museum Exhibition ‘The Geometry of Hope,’ Blanton Museum of Art, Gabriel Perez-Barreiro curator
Solo Gallery Exhibition ‘Michael Seiben: Smile Forever,’ Art Palace
Group Gallery Exhibition ‘Celebrated Skin,’ Butridge Gallery, DAC, Christina Heitt, curator ‘Take Me to Bed Or Lose Me Forever,’ Volitant Gallery, Leona Scull-Hons curator
Independent Project ‘The ‘I’ of Texas,’ Luke Savisky (First Night Austin) ‘Texas Biennial 2007,’ Butridge Gallery, Okay Mountain, Site 1808, Bolm Studios
Work of Art ‘Outside In’ installation, Elaine Bradford (Okay Mountain)
Gallery, Body of Work Okay Mountain
Artist Candace Briceno
Touring Show, Art “e-Flux Video Rental,” Arthouse
SPECIAL CITATIONS
John Bustin Award for Conspicuous Versatility Bernadette Nason
W.H. “Deacon” Crain Award for Outstanding Student Work Feliz Dia McDonald, Austin Community College Daniel Adams, St. Edward’s University Corey Atkins, UT Theatre & Dance Corey Jones, UT Theatre & Dance
Addition of Note Award Ed Kliman, for his musical participation in ‘As You Like It’, ‘The Glass Menagerie,’ ‘Katrina: The Girl Who Wanted Her Name Back’ and ‘Big River’
Good Us Award All of Austin for its involvement in the ‘365 Days/365 Plays’ project
Didn’t I Blow Your Mind This Time Award Ron Berry and Refraction Arts for the newly expanded Fuse Box Festival
All Hands on Deck Award Susan Threadgill and Vince Herrod, for calling ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’
Nothing Up My Sleeve Award Austin Lyric Opera for ‘The Barber of Seville’
UN Award for Achievement in Cooperative Musicmaking St. Cecilia Music series for the Bach Christmas Oratorio
Takin’ It to the Streets Award Meredith Powell and the Austin Fine Arts Festival
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Zach Scott Theatre hires new managing director
Zachary Scott Theatre Center has hired a new managing director.
Elisbeth Challener will serve as the organization’s chief operating officer, lead the development of a new theater, and oversee production, education, fundraising, marketing and financial management.
A search committee composed of Zach Scott board members hired her last week following a national search.
As executive director of Montalvo Center for the Arts, Challener helped transform a California estate into a major concert producer and artists residency program with international stature. She moved to Austin in 2005 and has served as a nonprofit arts consultant and part-time executive director of One World Theatre.
Challener graduated from the Boston Conservatory of Music with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in drama and musical theater. She attended the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program for nonprofits and the Center for Excellence in Nonprofit Management in San Jose, Calif. Challener did many years of summer stock, dinner theater and semi-professional theater on the east coast and in California.
Challener succeeds longtime managing director Ann Ciccolella who announced her resignation in January. Challener’s first day on the job will be July 9.
Zach Scott is in the first stages of a capital campaign to raise $25 million to support a new, 500-seat theater and education facility. Last November, Austin voters approved Proposition Four allocating $10 million in bond money for a new theater. Coupled with private capital campaign contributions, to date, Zach Scott is about halfway toward its goal of $25 million for funding the project.
Elisabeth Challener
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