2012-2013 Austin Critics’ Table Awards nominations
The 2012-2013 Austin Critics’ Table Awards nominations
VISUAL ART
Museum Exhibition
“I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America,” Donald Albrecht, curator; Ransom Center
“The Rules of Basketball,” Regine Basha, curator; Blanton Museum of Art
“Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks From Alumni Collections,” Annette Carlozzi, curator; Blanton Museum of Art
“Young Latino Artists Exhibition 17: Grafficanos,” James Huizar, curator; Mexic-Arte Museum
Solo Gallery Exhibition
“Ana Fernandez: Real Estates and Other Fictions,” Women & Their Work
“Katie Maratta,” Gallery Shoal Creek
“Kelly O’Connor: Last Resort,” Women & Their Work
“Kevin McNamee-Tweed: Rocks,” Big Medium
“Miguel Aragón: Fractured Memories, Assembled Trauma,” Mexic-Arte Museum
“Rigoberto A.Gonzalez: Baroque on the Border,” Mexican American Cultural Center
Group Gallery Exhibition
“Artifact,” Tiny Park Gallery
“Collection Selections: De-Luxe,” Kimberli Gant, curator; AMOA-Arthouse
“Future-Perfect-in-Past-Tense,” GrayDUCK Gallery
“Hybrid Forms,” Rachel Adams, curator; AMOA-Arthouse
“A Nation of Fear,” Center Space, UT Visual Arts Center
“New Century Modern,” Michel Conroy & Mary Mikel Stump, curators; Texas State University Galleries
“Tamed Territory,” GrayDUCK Gallery
Work of Art: Independent or Public Project
Alley Cat Project, MASS Gallery
“Armageddon Outta Here,” Ink Tank
Changarrito, Mexic-Arte Museum
“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” Texas Biennial
“Public Access,” MASS Gallery
“TRANSfiguration,” Rino Pizzi, et al.
“20 Ft. Wide,” Dan Cheetham & Michelle Tarsney for Art Alliance Austin
Work of Art: One of a Kind
“Event Horizon,” Leticia Bajuyo, Women & Their Work
“Future Perfect,” Ann Tarantino, AMOA-Arthouse
“Hecho Farm,” Cruz Ortiz, UT Visual Arts Center
“A Survey of Open Space,” Peat Duggins, Fusebox Festival
“Variable Landscape,” Joseph Phillips, Tiny Park
Work of Art: Installation
“Beili Liu: Amass,” Texas State University Galleries
“Binary Branch,” Jamie Panzer, AMOA-Arthouse
“Colby Bird: House Lamps,” Texas State University Galleries
11 Week Interval, Jeff Williams, AMOA-Arthouse
“Nagualia,” Jules Buck Jones and Morgan Coy, Co-Lab Projects
“Portico,” Michael Anthony Garcia, Austin City Hall
“W. Tucker: to stand in a boat that floats,” Texas State University Galleries
Artist
Sonya Berg
Leah Haney
Beili Liu
Rino Pizzi
W. Tucker
Jeff Williams
Touring Show, Art
“Andy Coolquitt: Attainable Excellence,” AMOA-Arthouse
“Arnold Newman: Masterclass,” Ransom Center
“Nick Cave: Hide in Plain Sight,” AMOA-Arthouse
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Symphonic Performance
Beethoven: Overtures to Fidelio, Leonora; Delius: Prelude to Irmelin; Fitkin: Circuit; Lansky: Shapeshifters, Austin Symphony with Quattro Mani
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms, Austin Symphony with Conspirare
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, Austin Symphony with Yefim Bronfman Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2/Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, Austin Symphony with Jon Nakamatsu Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9, Austin Symphony
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, UT Symphony Orchestra
Chamber Performance
All Beethoven Recital, Miro Quartet, Butler School of Music
Brant: Orbits, Steve Parker/80 trombones, Blanton Museum of Art Soundspace
Dufourt: Erewhon, line upon line percussion
String Quartet Smackdown, Golden Hornet Project
The Unknown, Les Freres Medusa with Will Fedekenheuer, Austin Classical Guitar Society
Turetsky: Reflections on Whittier and Ives, P. Kellach Waddle, Christopher Flores, Jessica Valls, Pat Harris, Blanton Museum of Art Soundspace
Xenakis: Pleiades/Persephassa, line upon line percussion, Meehan/Perkins Duo, & Timothy Briones
Yankee Baroque, La Follia Austin Baroque
Choral Performance
Once Below a Time, Texas Choral Consort
The Sacred Spirit of Russia, Conspirare
Signature Conspirare, Conspirare
Soundspace: Post-Classical, One Ounce Opera
Vessel, Convergence
Opera
Les Enfants Terrible, UT Butler Opera Center
The Marriage of Figaro, Austin Lyric Opera
Singer
Jonathan Beyer, The Marriage of Figaro
Elena Calenos, The Marriage of Figaro
Sasha Cooke, Miró Quartet recital
Jan Cornelius, Faust
Jamie-Rose Guarrine, The Marriage of Figaro
Glenn Miller, The Sacred Spirit of Russia
Icy Simpson, “I, Too”
David Small, “Once Below a Time”
Jenifer Thyssen, Celtic Trinity
Hyung Yun, Faust
Original Composition/Score
And Then Came Tango, Paul Marbach
Concerto Laguna, Travis Weller
“15 Grand in a Paper Sack,” Chris Black
“If I Were a Swan,” Kevin Puts
“land of the living,” Steven Snowden
“Sleep,” Sarah Dutcher
Solo Symphony, Graham Reynolds
To Touch the Sky, Kevin Puts
Instrumentalist
Bruce Colson, Celtic Trinity
Leigh Mahoney, “La Maja Dolorosa,” Tango Ballet (Fast Approaching, Swiftly Gone)
Artina McCain, I, Too
Terry Muir, Heaven-Earth-One
Rick Rowley, Schumann: Fantasie in C Major
Michelle Schumann, A Charlie Brown Christmas/Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 14
Leanne Zacharias, Concerto Laguna
Ensemble
Ensemble VIII
line upon line percussion
Miró Quartet
New Music Co-op
Tosca String Quartet
Touring, Classical Laura Claycomb with Keith Weber, UT Butler School of Music
Daniel Hope & Friends: Music from Terezín, Texas Performing Arts
Pierrot Lunaire, eighth blackbird, Texas Performing Arts
Anna Vidovic, Austin Classical Guitar Society
THEATER
Production, Drama
“All My Sons,” Palindrome Theatre
“Colossal,” UT/David Mark Cohen New Works Festival
“The Edge of Peace,” UT Department of Theatre & Dance
“Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom,” Poison Apple Initiative/Vestige Group
“The Poison Squad,” The Duplicates
“Richard III,” Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance
“Rose Rage,” The Hidden Room Theatre
Production, Comedy
“Accidental Death of an Anarchist,” Palindrome Theatre
“boom!,” Capital T Theatre
“Dividing the Estate,” Zach Theatre
“The Importance of Being Earnest,” Mary Moody Northen Theatre
Slip River, UT/David Mark Cohen New Works Festival
“Under Construction,” Mary Moody Northen Theatre
Production, Musical
“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” Doctuh Mistuh Productions
“Legally Blonde the Musical,” Summer Stock Austin
“Ordinary Peephole: The Songs of Dick Price,” The Dick Price Fan Club
“Ragtime,” Zach Theatre
“The Sound of Music,” Zilker Theatre Productions
“Urinetown: The Musical,” Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance
Theatrical Event
“Austin Is a Place (You Are Here),” Theatre En Bloc
“The Girl With Time in Her Eyes,” The Hidden Room Theatre
“Hot Nights series, The Exchange Artists
Lord Wensleydale’s Last High Tea, Parallelogramophonograph
The Man Who Planted Trees, The Exchange Artists
Now Now Oh Now, Rude Mechanicals
Direction
Beth Burns, “Rose Rage”/”Invisible, Inc.”
Connor Hopkins, “Toil and Trouble”
David Long, “Under Construction”
Chuck Ney, “Richard III”
Austin Sheffield, “All My Sons”
Rachel Wiese, “The Man Who Planted Trees”
Acting in a Leading Role
Jill Blackwood, “Xanadu”/”Ragtime”/”Goodnight Moon”
Barbara Chisholm, “The Importance of Being Earnest”
Brock England, “Rose Rage”
Noel Gaulin, Accidental Death of an Anarchist/The Bear/Vodka, Fucking, and Television
Thomas Graves, “Agnes and Alfred”
Harvey Guion, “All My Sons”
Joey Hood, “I Am the Machine Gunner”
Hannah Kenah, “Agnes and Alfred”
Eugene Lee, “Richard III”
Mykal Monroe, “Intimate Apparel”
Cassadie Peterson, “Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom”
Matt Radford, “Rose Rage”
Patty Rowell, “Annie Get Your Gun”
Kyle Scatliffe, “Ragtime”
Carrie Stephens, “Betrayal”
Acting in a Supporting Role
Joey Banks, “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”
Nathan Brockett, “All My Sons”
Beth Broderick, “Just Outside Redemption”
Fran Dorn, “The Edge of Peace”
Babs George, “Mad Beat Hip & Gone”
Ryan Hamilton, “Just Outside Redemption”
Jude Hickey, “Vodka, Fucking, and Television”
Robert Matney, “Rose Rage”
Nadine Mozon, “Richard III”
Laurence Pears, “Rose Rage”/”Invisible, Inc.”
Sydney Roberts, “Urinetown: The Musical”
Cara Spradley, “The Scarlet Letter”
Marijane Vandivier, “Dividing the Estate”
Ensemble Performance
“The Importance of Being Earnest,” Mary Moody Northen Theatre
“Ordinary Peephole: The Songs of Dick Price,” The Dick Price Fan Club
“The Poison Squad,” The Duplicates
“Rose Rage,” The Hidden Room
“Under Construction,” Mary Moody Northen Theatre
“The Women of Juarez,” UT/David Mark Cohen New Works Festival
Music Direction
Jordon Cunningham, “Legally Blonde: The Musical”
Jennifer Davis & Howard Burkitt, “Rose Rage”
Allen Robertson, Xanadu/Ragtime/Goodnight Moon
Lyova Rosanoff, Ordinary Peephole: The Songs of Dick Price
John Vander Gheynst and Dustin Struhall, The Sound of Music
Movement
Cassie Abate, Urinetown: The Musical
Andrea Beckham and Jeff Simon, Colossal
Nick Demos, Ragtime/White Christmas
Danny Herman & Rocker Verastique, Under Construction
Jennifer Young Mahlstedt, “Goodnight Moon”
Courtney Wissinger,” The Sound of Music”
David Mark Cohen New Play Award
“Adam Sultan,” Steve Moore and Zeb L. West
“Colossal,” Andrew Hinderaker
“The Edge of Peace,” Suzan Zeder
“Just Outside Redemption,” Dennis Bailey
“Now Now Oh Now,” Hannah Kenah
“The Poison Squad,” The Duplicates
“Slip River,” Abe Koogler, Katie Bender, and Gabrielle Reisman
“The Women of Juarez,” Isaac Gomez and Bianca Sulaica
Touring Show, Theatre
“Butt Kapinski: We Are the Dark,” Deanna Fleysher/The Institution Theatre
“Cue China (Elsewhere, Offshore),” Ant Hampton/Fusebox Festival Farfalle, Compagnia TPO/Scottish Rite Theatre
Heather Woodbury’s As the Globe Warms, Heather Woodbury/Vortex Repertory Company
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Zach Theatre
“Watch Me Fall,” Action Hero/Fusebox Festival
“West Side Terri,” Jay Fraley & Rude Guerilla Productions
DANCE
Dance Concert
“As Holy Sites Go”/duet, Deborah Hay
“Heaven-Earth-One,” Blue Lapis Light
“Saya Ikan/I Am a Fish/Ik Ben Een Vis + What Is Common,” Julie Nathanielsz/The Meeting Point
“Solo Symphony,” Forklift Danceworks
“The Taming of the Shrew,” Ballet Austin
Short Work
“Home,” Dance Repertory Theatre
“The Red Shoes,” A’lante Flamenco Dance Ensemble
“Requiem for a Rose,” Ballet Austin
“Somebody Else,” Ellen Bartel
“Two to One,” Tapestry Dance Company
“The Uncommitted,” Dance Repertory Theatre
Choreographer Ellen Bartel, “Somebody Else”
Cheryl Chaddick, Interior Landscape of the Emotional Mind
Jennifer Hart, “Wavemakers”
Deborah Hay, As Holy Sites Go/duet & No Time to Fly/FIRE
Allison Orr, Solo Symphony
China Smith and Daniele Martin, “Strange Fruit”
Dancer
Olivia Chacon, “The Red Shoes”
Chris Hannon, Aphrodite Dances: Romeo Drive
Rebecca Johnson, “Requiem for a Rose”
Travis Knights, “Time”
Grace Morton, BAII@AVST
Matthew Shields, “Time”
Michelle Thompson, “The Rite of Spring”
Nicole Whiteside, “Heaven-Earth-One”
Jamie Lynn Witts, “The Taming of the Shrew”
Duet
Anuradha Naimpally & Purna Bajekal,” Two Generations, One Tradition”
Chris Hannon & Gina Patterson, “Ida”
David Justin & Oren Porterfield, “Unto Love”
Grace Morton & Benjamin Wetzel, “Luminaria”
Frank Shott & Jamie Lynn Witts, “The Taming of the Shrew”
Ros Warby & Jeanine Durning, “As Holy Sites Go”/”duet”
Ensemble
Ballet Austin, “The Taming of the Shrew
Ballet Austin II, Snow White
Blue Lapis Light, Heaven-Earth-One
Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company, “Bountiful”
Spank Dance Company. “Somebody Else”
Touring Show, Dance
“Phone Homer,” Michelle Ellsworth, Fusebox Festival/Women & Their Work
“The Rite of Spring,” Joffrey Ballet, Texas Performing Arts
“Saya Ikan/I Am a Fish/Ik Ben Een Vis”, Lily Kiara, Julie Nathanielsz/The Meeting Point
DESIGN
Scenic Design
William Anderson, “The Cataract”
The Duplicates, “The Poison Squad”
Ia Ensterä, The 12th Labor/spacestation 1985/Bus Stop
Thomas Graves, Michelle Marchesseault, Leilah Stewart, et al. “Now Now Oh Now”
Michelle Ney, “Richard III”
Cliff Simon, “Dividing the Estate”/”33 Variations”
Costume Design
Kaitlyn Aylward, “The Cataract”
Emily Cawood, “Wavemakers”
T’Cie Mancuso,” Under Construction”/”The Importance of Being Earnest”
Michelle Ney, “Richard III”
Susan Branch Towne, “The Sound of Music”/Xanadu”/”Ragtime”
Chin-Hua Yeh, “Intimate Apparel”
Lighting Design
Jason Amato, “Heaven-Earth-One”/”Ragtime”/”Pride and Prejudice”/”The Elementals: Earth”
The Duplicates,” The Poison Squad”
Natalie George, “spacestation 1985”
Michelle Hebeck, “Dividing the Estate/Xanadu/Mad Beat Hip & Gone”
Stephen Pruitt, Solo Symphony
Theatre En Bloc, “Austin Is a Place (You Are Here)”
Sound Design
Craig Brock, “Ragtime”
The Duplicates, “The Poison Squad”
Robert Fisher, “Now Now Oh Now”
William Meadows, Heaven-Earth-One Buzz Moran, All My Sons/Under Construction/spacestation 1985
Miles Polaski, “The Cataract”
Video Design
Lowell Bartholomee, Vodka, Fucking, and Television
João Beira, Marta Ferraz, and Yago De Quay, “3D [Embodied]”
Colin Lowry, The Geometry of Proximity
Christopher Sousa-Wynn, Richard III
Lee Webster, “I Am the Machine Gunner”