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Austin Critics’ Table 2010-2011 nominations
Artists Beili Liu and Nathan Green, actors Lauren Lane and Joey Hood and dancers Aare Krumpe and Travis Knights are among those nominated for a 2010-2011 Austin Critics’ Table Award.
In its 16th year, the Austin Critics’ Table is an informal group of arts critics from the American-Statesman and the Austin Chronicle that annually recognizes outstanding achievement in the arts. This year’s awards recognize events between May 1, 2010 and April 30, 2011.
Among the shows receiving nominations for outstanding theater production are Zach Theatre’s “Becky’s New Car,” Austin Shakespeare’s “Man And Superman” and “I’ve Never Been So Happy,” by the Rude Mechs.
In classical music, percussionist Graeme Francis and violinist Anne Akiko Meyers have been nominated for outstanding instrumentalists while several concerts presented during Austin Classical Guitar Society’s “Austin Goes Classical” festival got a nod in classical music performance categories.
Exhibits up for recognition include the Ransom Center’s “Becoming Tennessee Williams,” a solo show by Jules Buck Jones at Champion Contemporary and Graham Hudson’s “Rehearsal at the Astoria” at Arthouse.
The awards ceremony is at 7 p.m. June 6 at Cap City Comedy Club, 8120 Research Blvd. It is free and open to the public.
VISUAL ART
Museum Exhibition
“Advancing Tradition: Twenty Years of Printmaking of Flatbed Press,” Austin Museum of Art, Dana Friis-Hansen and Mark L. Smith, curators
“Becoming Tennessee Williams,” Ransom Center, Charlotte Canning, curator
“Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection,” Ransom Center. David Coleman, curator
“New Works for the Collection,” Blanton Museum of Art, Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, curator
“Recovering Beauty: Buenos Aires in the 1990s,” Blanton Museum, Ursula Davila-Villa, curator
“Young Latino Artists 15: Consensus of Taste,” Mexic-Arte Museum, Claudia Zapata, curator
Solo Gallery Exhibition
“Deep End: New Work by Sonya Berg,” Champion
“Diego Huerta: Town of Clouds,” Mexican American Culture Center
“For If They Fall: Works by Candace M. Briceño,” Mexican-American Cultural Center
“Jules Buck Jones: Animal Again,” Champion
“New Works: Eric Zimmerman,” Austin Museum of Art
“New Works: Sunyong Chung,” Austin Museum of Art
“Raymond Uhlir,” D. Berman Gallery
“Unsustainable Attainment: Virigina Yount,” Women & Their Work
Group Gallery Exhibition
“Anthropogenesis,” UT Visual Arts Center, Ariel Evans and Lauren Hamer, curators
“Joseph Phillips & Shawn Smith,” D. Berman Gallery
“Objectivity,” Grayduck Gallery
“Out of Place,” Lora Reynolds Gallery, Noah Simblist, curator
“Paper 2,” Gallery Shoal Creek
“The Portrait,” L. Nowlin Gallery
“SUBstainability,” Gallery I & II, Texas State University, Mary Mikel Stump and Andy Campbell, curators
“Womanscape: Race, Gender & Sexuality in African Art,” UT Visual Arts Center, Moyo Okediji, curator
Work of Art: Video Art
“1:1,” Jessica Mallios, 2011 Texas Biennial
“Accumulation,” Hillerbrand + Magsamen, 2011 Texas Biennial
“Close Caption,” James Sham, Arthouse
“Dorian, a cinematic perfume,” Michelle Handelman, Arthouse
“Méliès, Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler,” Lora Reynolds Gallery
Work of Art: Independent or Public Project
“Animal,” David Ellis, Landmarks
“Knitted Wonderland,” Magda Sayek and the knitters of Austin, Blanton Museum of Art
“More Art About Buildings and Food,” Jason Middlebrook, Arthouse
“Play Me, I’m Yours,” Art Alliance Austin
“Rehearsal at the Astoria,” Graham Hudson, Arthouse
“Untitled Nothing Factory,” Amanda Ross-Ho, UT Visual Arts Center
Work of Art: One of a Kind
“Kitty Pilgrim,” Sam Sanford, 2011 Texas Biennial
“The Specious Present at 700 Congress,” Ryan Hennessee, Arthouse
“Swarm,” Shawn Smith, D. Berman Gallery
“Water, Water Everywhere So Let’s All Have a Drink,” Okay Mountain, Austin Museum of Art
Work of Art: Installation
“The Daisy Argument,” Natasha Bowdoin, UT Visual Arts Center
“The Mending Project,” Beili Liu, Women & Their Work
“Palatial Hemorrhages,” Sarah Stevens, Co-Lab
“Plexus 5,” Gabriel Dawe, 2011 Texas Biennial
“Quadri-Poise,” Jade Walker, 2011 Texas Biennial
“Today’s Headlines Wrap Tomorrow’s Fish,” William Hundley, Co-Lab
Artist
Santiago Forero
Nathan Green
Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Bircher
Beili Liu
Barry Stone
DANCE
Dance Concert
“Are You Listening to Me?,” Tapestry Dance Company
“Here.Me.Now,” Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company
“One,” Blue Lapis Light
“Parampara II,” Austin Dance India
“Studio Theater Project,” Ballet Austin
Short Work
“Exceptional Utopias,” Tender Voices in Flight, Chaddick Dance Theater
“Home with Yellow Fever,” Califa Arts Collaborative
“Journey #5,” Voices, Ballet East
“Luminaria,” Studio Theater Project, Ballet Austin
“silence within silence,” Studio Theater Project, Ballet Austin
“Working the Line,” Julie Nathanielsz/The Meeting Point, Fusebox Festival
Dancer
Paul Michael Bloodgood, “Lasting Imprint”
Theresa Hardy, “One”
Stephanie Mayorga Keeton, “Influences: A Cinematic Showdown”
Travis Knights, “Voices of Rhythm”/”Are You Listening to Me?”
Aare Krumpe, “silence within silence”/”La Sylphide”
Michelle Martin, “La Sylphide”
Anu Naimpally, “Parampara II”
Erica Santiago, “Here.Me.Now”
Christopher Swaim, “La Sylphide”
Jamie Lynn Witts, “Kai”
Ensemble
Ballet Austin, “Kai”
Ballet Austin, “La Sylphide”
Blue Lapis Light, “One”
The Meeting Point, “Working the Line”
Touring Show, Dance
“Cédric Andrieux,” Jérôme Bel, Fusebox Festival
“Cuando los Difraces se Cuelgan,” Delfos Danza Contemporanea, Texas Performing Arts
Tango Buenos Aires, Long Center
“There is so much mad in me,” Faye Driscoll, testperformancetest and Fusebox Festival
DESIGN
Scenic Design
Tommy Grubbs and Mark Pickell, “Bug”
Richard Isackes, “La Hija de Rappacini (Rappaccini’s Daughter)”
Lisa Laratta, “Machinal”/”Baal”/”Heddatron”
Anne McMeeking, “Fight”
Michael Raiford, “The Drowsy Chaperone”/”Metamorphoses”/”Rent”/”August: Osage County”
Nicholas Renaud, “MilkMilkLemonade”
Costume Design
Pam Friday, “MilkMilkLemonade”
Jillian Hanel, “A Writer’s Vision(s)”
Jen J. Madison, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
Benjamin Taylor Ridgway, “Baal”
Susan Branch Towne, “The Drowsy Chaperone”/”All Shook Up”
Proletina Veltchev, “The Threepenny Opera”
Lighting Design
Jason Amato, “Metamorphoses”/”One”/”Rent”/”August: Osage County”
Kathryn Eader, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”/”La Hija de Rappacini (Rappaccini’s Daughter)”
Natalie George, “Baal”/”Heddatron”
Ray Oppenheimer, “The Virgin with 10,000 Arrows”
Mark Pickell, “Bug”
Megan Reilly, “Machinal”
Sound Design
Adam Hilton, “Bug”
Craig Brock, “The Drowsy Chaperone”/”Metamorphoses”/”Rent”
Brett Hamann, “Spirits to Enforce”
William Meadows, “One”
Buzz Moran, “Heddatron”
Video Design
Owen Egerton and Les McGehee, “The Other Side of Sleep”
Eliot Haynes and Colin Lowry, “Rent”
Robert Matney, “You Wouldn’t Know Her, She Lives in London”
Miwa Matreyek, “I’ve Never Been So Happy”
Todd V. Wolfson, “Journey #5”
Lee Webster, “Heddatron”
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Symphonic Performance
Mahler: Symphony No. 1, Austin Symphony
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto, Austin Symphony with Anne Akiko Meyers
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, Austin Symphony with Pepe Romero, Austin Goes Classical
Bruch: Concerto No. 1 for Violin/Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5, UT Symphony Orchestra, with guest conductor Carl St. Clair
Takemitsu: From me flows what you call Time, Austin Symphony with Nexus
Chamber Performance
Beethoven: String Quartet in F Major/Bolcom: Three Rags, Aeolus Quartet
Adam Holzman with the Miró Quartet, Austin Goes Classical
“Bach’s Herd of Harsichords,” La Follia Austin Baroque
“Convivencia,” Texas Early Music Project
Glass; String Quartet No. 5, Lynn Harrell with the Miró Quartet
“Out of the Bach’s,” Austin Chamber Music Center
Choral Performance
J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, Conspirare
“The Mystic and the Storyteller,” Conspirare
“Renaissance & Response: Polyphony Then and Now,” Conspirare
Opera
“The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” Austin Lyric Opera/Austin Chamber Music Center
“Flight,” Austin Lyric Opera
La Hija de Rappacini (Rappaccini’s Daughter), UT Butler Opera Center
“La Traviata,” Austin Lyric Opera
Singer
Pamela Armstrong, “La Traviata”
David Farwig, “Renaissance & Response”
Cara Johnston, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”
Brian Joyce, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”
Abigail H. Lennox, “Renaissance & Response”
Karin Mushegain, “Flight”
Nili Riemer, “Flight”
Chad Shelton, “La Traviata”
David Small, Winterreise
Matthew Treviño, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”
Nicholas Zammit, “Flight”
Original Composition/Score “Assembly Lines,” Ian Dicke “Flying,” Justin Sherburn “Joy. Even Against Night,” Justin T. Capps “A Man With a Gun Lives Here,” Steve Snowden “I’ve Never Been So Happy,” Peter Stopschinski “Powerman,” Graham Reynolds “re: Psyche,” Mother Falcon “Songs of the Soul,” Robert Kyr “The Virgin with 10,000 Arrows,” Joey Reyes
Instrumentalist Graeme Francis, percussion, “Out of the Bach’s” Adam Holzman, guitar, Adam Holzman and the Miró Quartet Anne Akiko Meyers, violin, Anne Akiko Meyers with the Austin Symphony Anton Nel, piano, Jessen Series of Distinguished Faculty Artists Steve Parker, trombone, Fast Forward Austin Michelle Schumann, piano, “Out of the Bach’s” Keith Womer, piano, “Bach’s Herd of Harsichords”
Ensemble
Aeolus Quartet
Bel Cuore Quartet
Line Upon Line
Miró Quartet
Mother Falcon
THEATRE
Production, Drama
“At Home at the Zoo,” Palindrome Theatre
“August: Osage County,” Zach Theatre
“Bug,” Capital T Theatre
“Machinal,” Paper Chairs
“Spirits to Enforce,” Capital T Theatre
Production, Comedy
“Becky’s New Car,” Zach Theatre
“Dead White Males,” Sustainable Theatre Project
“Hunter Gatherers,” Capital T Theatre
“The Imaginary Invalid,” Mary Moody Northen Theatre
“Man and Superman,” Austin Shakespeare
“Melancholy Play,” Palindrome Theatre
“MilkMilkLemonade,” Shrewd Productions
Production, Musical
“Carousel,” Mary Moody Northen Theatre
“Drone,” Crank Collective
“The Drowsy Chaperone,” Zach Theatre
“I’ve Never Been So Happy,” Rude Mechs
“Rent,” Zach Theatre
“The Wild Party,” Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance
Theatrical Event
“Biography of Physical Sensation,” Rubber Repertory
“Incidents at the 22 Hotel,” Wura-Natasha Ogunji
“A Most Unsettling and Possibly Haunted Evening in the Parlour of the Brothers Grimm,” The Hidden Room Theatre/Trouble Puppet Theatre Company
“You Wouldn’t Know Her, She Lives in London,” The Hidden Room Theatre/Look Left Look Right
Direction
Nick Demos, “The Drowsy Chaperone”
Kaitlin Hopkins, “All Shook Up”/”The Wild Party”
Halena Kays, “The Threepenny Opera”
David Long, “The Imaginary Invalid”
Derek Kolluri , “Dead White Males“
Mark Pickell, “Bug“/“Hunter Gatherers“
Dave Steakley, “Rent“
Dustin Wills, “Machinal“/“Heddatron“
Acting in a Leading Role
Jill Blackwood, “The Drowsy Chaperone“
Verity Branco, “re: Psyche/Rent“
Martin Burke, “The Drowsy Chaperone”
Kate de Buys, “Bug”
Barbara Chisholm, “Red Hot Patriot”
Mary Agen Cox, “The Trip to Bountiful”
Shelby Davenport, “Man and Superman”
Lana Dieterich, “August: Osage County”
Babs George, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
Joey Hood, “Bug”
Lauren Lane, “Becky’s New Car”/”August: Osage County”
Ev Lunning, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
Rachel McGinnis, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”
Nadine Mozon, “Delta Rhapsody”
Brad Price, “Hunter Gatherers”
Nigel O’Hearn, “At Home at the Zoo”
Richard Robichaux, “The Imaginary Invalid”
David Stokey, “Laughter on the 23rd Floor”
Acting in a Supporting Role
Aaron Alexander, “Metamorphoses”/”Fight”
Brian Coughlin, “The Trip to Bountiful”
Joshua Denning, “Rent”
Jamie Goodwin, “The Drowsy Chaperone”/”Eurydice”
Shannon Grounds, “MilkMilkLemonade”
Jude Hickey, “Melancholy Play”/”Heddatron”
Matrex Kilgore, “Fight”
Jenny Larson, “Laughter on the 23rd Floor”
Julia Lorenz-Olson, “Hamlet”
Jon Wayne Martin, “On the Verge”
Meredith McCall, “The Drowsy Chaperone”
Nathan Osburn, “Hedda Gabler”
Robert Pierson, “Heddatron”
Xochitl Romero, “Circle Mirror Transformation”
David Stahl, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps/Eurydice/Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Michael Stuart, “Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps”/”August: Osage County”
Irene White, “August: Osage County”
Ensemble Performance
“All Shook Up,” Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance
“Baal,” Paper Chairs
“Flying,” Breaking String Theatre
“I’ve Never Been So Happy,” Rude Mechs
“Melancholy Play,” Palindrome Theatre
“Spirits to Enforce,” Capital T Theatre
David Mark Cohen New Play Award
“Emergency Prom,” Steve Moulds
“Fight,” Kimber Lee
“I’ve Never Been So Happy,” Kirk Lynn and Peter Stopschinski
“The Other Side of Sleep,” Owen Egerton
“Past: River Run,” Sarah Saltwick
“re: Psyche,” Jenny Connell
“The Virgin with 10,000 Arrows,” Jason Trembley
“They’re Coming to Get You!,” Lowell Bartholomee
Music Direction
Greg Bolin, “All Shook Up”/”The Wild Party”
Michael McKelvey, “Company”
Allen Robertson, “The Drowsy Chaperone”/”Rent”
Michelle Schumann, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”
Peter Stopschinski, “I’ve Never Been So Happy”
Movement
Dayna Hanson, “I’ve Never Been So Happy”
Robin Lewis, “The Drowsy Chaperone”/”All Shook Up”/”Rent”/”The Wild Party”
Adriene Mishler, “Flying”
Nicole Whiteside, “Metamorphoses”
Touring Show, Theatre
“Black Watch,” National Theatre of Scotland, Texas Performing Arts
“The Last of the Cargo Cults,” Mike Daisey, Texas Performing Arts
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Actors From the London Stage
“The Shipment,” Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, Fusebox, Women & Their Work, Pro-Arts
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By Mark Briody
May 27, 2011 3:56 PM | Link to this
Don’t forget the B Iden Payne awards, nominated by a large committee that sees every show that’s eligible during the September to August season. Awards are then selected by members of the Austin Creative Alliance (formerly Greater ACA, Former Austin Circle of Theatres). Details at www.BIdenPayneAwards.com.