B. IDEN PAYNE NOMININEES 2006-2007

Plays for Youth

Outstanding Production of a Play for Youth
Dear Edwina Junior (Zachary Scott Theatre Center Performing Arts School)
High School Musical (Zachary Scott Theatre Center Performing Arts School)
Jesse and Grace: A Best Friends’ Story (Pollyanna Theatre Company)
The Page and the Caterpillar (Second Youth Family Theatre)

Outstanding Director of a Play for Youth
Leslie K. Hollingsworth (The Page and the Caterpillar)
Jaclyn Loewenstein (Dear Edwina Junior)
Dave Steakley (High School Musical)

Outstanding Performer in a Play for Youth
Amy Downing (Ms. Darbus, Ms. Tenny, High School Musical)
Kathleen Fletcher (Grace, Jesse and Grace)
Kirk German (Boris the Page, The Page and the Caterpillar)
Joe Hartman (Prince Durante Ole, The Page and the Caterpillar)
Julianna E. Wright (Princess Chrysanthemum, The Page and the Caterpillar)

Music Theatre

Outstanding Production of Music Theatre
The Assumption (Refraction Arts)
At Home With Dick 2: A Progressive Degenerative Cabaret (Rubber Repertory)
Parade (SEU Mary Moody Northen Theatre)
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (UT        Department of Theatre and Dance)
The Rocky Horror Show (Zachary Scott Theatre Center)

Outstanding Director of Music Theatre
Sonnet Blanton & Julia M. Smith (The Assumption)
Kent De Spain (Marat/Sade)
Matt Hislope and Josh Meyer (At Home With Dick 2)
Ev Lunning Jr. (Parade)
Michael McKelvey (Assassins

Outstanding Lead Actor in Music Theatre
Matt Hislope (Fool, Trickster)
John Pointer (Judas Iscariot, Jesus Christ Superstar)
Dick Price (everyone, At Home With Dick 2)
Scott Shipman (Alan Swann, My Favorite Year)
Joe York (Dr. Frank N. Furter, The Rocky Horror Show)

Outstanding Lead Actress in Music Theatre
Leslie K. Hollingsworth (Janet, The Rocky Horror Show)
April Perez (Miranda, Intermission)
Glay Marie Posch (Rose Maybud, Ruddigore)
Melissa Vogt-Patterson (Mala, The Dragonfly Princess)

Outstanding Featured Actor in Music Theatre
Ron Berry (Clarence, The Assumption)
Blake DeLong (Herald, Marat/Sade)
Joe Hartman (Sy Benson, My Favorite Year)
Quincy Kuykendall (Horse, The Full Monty)
Gabriel Maldonado (Monkey King, Trickster)

Outstanding Featured Actress in Music Theater
Emily Bem (Alice Miller, My Favorite Year)
Shannon Locke (Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, Assassins)
Adriene Mishler (O’leilah, The Assumption)
Janis Stinson (Simon, temple ensemble, Jesus Christ Superstar)
Larissa Wolcott (Columbia, usherette, The Rocky Horror Show)

Comedies

Outstanding Production of a Comedy
As You Like It (Mermaid Theatre Company & Austin Shakespeare Festival)
The Boys Next Door (City Theatre Company)
The Pillowman (Hyde Park Theatre)
Present Laughter (Zachary Scott Theatre Center)
A Thought in Three Parts (Rubber Repertory & VORTEX Repertory Company)

Outstanding Director of a Comedy
Andy Berkovsky (The Boys Next Door)
Rod Caspers (Ah, Wilderness!)
Guy Roberts (As You Like It)
Carlos Treviño, Matt Hislope & Josh Meyer (A Thought in Three Parts)
Ken Webster (The Pillowman)

Outstanding Lead Actor in of a Comedy
Aaron Alexander (Orlando, Charles, William, As You Like It)
Jamie Goodwin (Garry Essendine, Present Laughter)
Jude Hickey (Katurian, The Pillowman)
Eric Porter (Ebenezer Scrooge, Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge)
Ken Webster (man, St. Nicholas)

Outstanding Lead Actress in of a Comedy
Jill Blackwood (Rosalind, Amiens, Hymen, As You Like It)
Michelle Cheney (Honey Raye Futrelle, Dearly Beloved)
Babs George (M’Lynn, Steel Magnolias)
Tiny Robinson (Lucy, Mr. Marmalade)
Julianna E. Wright (Ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Future, Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge)

Outstanding Featured Actor in of a Comedy
Kenneth Wayne Bradley (Ariel, The Pillowman)
Wray Crawford (Lucien P. Smith, The Boys Next Door)
Joe Hartman (Mrs. Ruth Forrest, Psycho Beach Party)
Charles P. Stites (Norman Bulansky, The Boys Next Door)
Travis Tinnin (Arnold Wiggins, The Boys Next Door)

Outstanding Featured Actress in of a Comedy
BElizabeth Doss (Daphne Stillington, Present Laughter)
ileana herrin (Puck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Gina Houston (Henrietta Iscariot, Saint Monica, Juror 3, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot)
Helen Merino (Monica Reed, Present Laughter)
Adriene Mishler (Sarah, A Thought in Three Parts)
Jennifer Underwood (Lotte Schoen, Lettice and Lovage)

Dramas

Outstanding Production of a Drama
Funnyhouse of a Negro (ACC Drama Department & ProArts Collective)
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Different Stages)
My Child, My Child, My Alien Child (Hyde Park Theatre)
Take Me Out (Zachary Scott Theatre Center)
The Women of Lockerbie (City Theatre Company)

Outstanding Director of a Drama
Lowell Bartholomee (A Beautiful View)
Robert Faires (An Almost Holy Picture)
Katie Pearl (Wireless-less)
Dave Steakley (Take Me Out)
Ken Webster (My Child, My Child, My Alien Child)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama
Tom Chamberlain (Martin, The Goat)
Zell Miller, III (himself, My Child, My Child, My Alien Child)
Eugene Oh (Say-anything-do-anything-start-anything-go-bankrupt-and-start-anything-society)
Jody Reynard (Darren Lemming, Take Me Out)
Travis Tinnin (Ralph, Frozen)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama
Lee Eddy (Charlotte, Wireless-less)
Kathleen Fletcher (Meredith, Stillborn)
Gina Houston (Roach, Slaughter City)
Feliz Dia McDonald (Sarah, Funnyhouse of a Negro)
Rebecca Robinson (Stevie, The Goat)

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Drama
Martin Burke (Mason Marzac, Take Me Out)
Michael Joplin (Record, Wireless-less)
Nathan Osburn (Macduff, Macbeth)
Robert Pierson (Henry, Mud)
Zach Thompson (Shane Mungitt, Take Me Out)

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Drama
Elizabeth Doss (Praline, Ring Rip Rent)
Michelle Flanagan (Ophelia, Hamlet)
Heather Hanna (Mary Rowlandson, Have You Ever Been Assassinated?)
Karen Jambon (Olive Allison, The Women of Lockerbie)
Janet Hurley Kimlicko (Vida Powers, The Night Hank Williams Died)

Technical Achievement Awards

Outstanding Set Design:
Paul Davis (The Pillowman)
Ann Marie Gordon (Bell(e))
Michael Raiford (Jesus Christ Superstar)
Cliff Simon (Present Laughter)
Chase Staggs (The Assumption)

Outstanding Lighting Design :
Jason Amato (Hamlet)
Jason Amato (Take Me Out)
Jason Amato (Trickster)
Autum Casey (Marat/Sade)
Stephen Pruitt (Macbeth)

Outstanding Sound Design:
Craig Brock (Take Me Out)
Clemencia Zapata & Mariachi Diamante (La Pastorela)
Jason Newman (Rainbow Family of the Serendipitous Now)
Phillip Owen (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
Justin Sherburn (Sweet Eros)

Outstanding Costume Design:
Susan Branch (My Favorite Year)
Susan Branch (Present Laughter)
Marann Faget (The Constant Wife)
Pamela Fletcher-Friday (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
Talena Martinez (Bell(e))

Outstanding Music Director:
Jill Blackwood (As You Like It)
Austin Haller (Present Laughter)
Jeffrey Jones-Ragona (Ruddigore)
Michael McKelvey (Assassins)
Allen Robertson (Jesus Christ Superstar)

Outstanding Choreographer
Aaron Alexander (As You Like It)
Tina Gramann (Take Me Out)
Stacey Huston (Parade)
Robin Lewis (The Rocky Horror Show)
Julia M. Smith (The Assumption)

Outstanding Original Script:
Ron Berry, Rebecca Beegle, Sonnet Blanton, Jeffrey Mills, Chase Staggs & Cyndi Williams (The Assumption)
Zell Miller, III (My Child, My Child, My Alien Child)
David Modigliani (Wireless-less)
Eugene Oh (Say-anything-do-anything-start-anything-go-bankrupt-and-start-anything-society)
Dick Price (At Home With Dick 2)

Outstanding Original Score:
Boone Graham & Adam Hilton (Intermission)
Dick Price (At Home With Dick 2)
Graham Reynolds (Have You Ever Been Assassinated?)
Chad Salvata (The Dragonfly Princess)

Special
Outstanding Ensemble Performance
Katie Bender & Joey Hood (Mary Jr. & Abe Jr., Have You Ever Been Assassinated?)
Kelli Bland, Rosaruby Glaberman, Matt Hislope & Josh Meyer (the hostelers, A Thought in Three Parts)
Kurt Mueller, Sermini, Aron Taylor & Ron Weisberg (the crew, Wireless-less)
Gary Payne & Nathan Jerkins (Andrew & Milo, Sleuth)
Breanna Stogner & Kathleen Fletcher (Kathy & Mo, Parallel Lives: The Kathy & Mo Show)

Outstanding Youth Performance
Taylor Flanagan (Liza Minnelli, Tiny Tim, An Xmas Carol)
Sean Maddox (Ryan Evans, High School Musical)
Aaron Moten (Jimmy, Thoroughly Modern Millie)
Kelli Schultz (Sharpay Evans, High School Musical)
Luz Zamora (San Miguel, La Pastorela)

Outstanding Special Theatrical Event
Bell(e): The Museum of Suicide Machinery (ethos)
The Great Disappearing Act (Heloise Gold and Beverly Bajema)
love conjure/blues (Conjure Productions)