Top of the Line
The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards
By Robert Faires, Fri., May 27, 2011
For the 19th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics has recognized the year's most exceptional achievements in dance, classical music, the visual arts, and theatre. The nominations for these awards, covering the period from May 3, 2010, to April 30, 2011, were assembled by the Austin American-Statesman's Michael Barnes (arts), Cate Blouke (theatre), Claire Canavan (theatre), Luke Quinton (classical music/visual arts), Claire Spera (dance), and Jeanne Claire van Ryzin (arts) and the Chronicle's Elizabeth Cobbe (theatre), Jonelle Seitz (dance), Avimaan Syam (theatre), and Robert Faires (arts).
They will present the awards and induct the latest class of local legends into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame during an informal ceremony at 7pm on Monday, June 6, at Cap City Comedy Club, 8120 Research. The public is welcome. Admission is free.
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 Mechanicals
Rent, Zach Theatre
The Wild Party, Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance
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 w/ 10,000 Arrows, Jason Tremblay
"They're Coming To Get You!," Lowell Bartholomee
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 and Trouble Puppet Theater 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
Derek Kolluri, Dead White Males
David Long, The Imaginary Invalid
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 Jr., 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 Theater
I've Never Been So Happy, Rude Mechanicals
Melancholy Play, Palindrome Theatre
Spirits To Enforce, Capital T Theatre
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
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
Touring Show
Black Watch, National Theatre of Scotland, presented by Texas Performing Arts
The Last of the Cargo Cults, Mike Daisey, presented by Texas Performing Arts
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Actors From the London Stage
The Shipment, Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, presented by Fusebox Festival, Women & Their Work, and Pro Arts
DESIGN
Scenic Design
Tommy Grubbs and Mark Pickell, Bug
Richard Isackes, La Hija de Rappaccini
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
Jillan 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 Rappaccini
Natalie George, Baal/Heddatron
Ray Oppenheimer, The Virgin w/ 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
Allen Robertson, August: Osage County
Video Design
Owen Egerton and Les McGehee, The Other Side of Sleep
K. 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
VISUAL ART
Museum Exhibition
"Advancing Traditions: Twenty Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press," Austin Museum of Art, Dana Friis-Hansen and Mark L. Smith, curators
"Becoming Tennessee Williams," Harry Ransom Center, Charlotte Canning, curator
"Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection," Harry Ransom Center, David Coleman, curator
"New Works for the Collection," Blanton Museum of Art, Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, curator
"Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires," Blanton Museum of Art, 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 Gallery
"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 Gallery
"New Works: Eric Zimmerman," Austin Museum of Art
"New Works: Sunyong Chung," Austin Museum of Art
"Raymond Uhlir," D Berman Gallery
"Virginia Yount: Unsustainable Attainment," 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, and 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 and Alexander Birchler, Lora Reynolds Gallery
Work of Art: Independent or Public Project
Animal, David Ellis, Landmarks
A Knitted Wonderland, Magda Sayeg 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 and Alexander Birchler
Beili Liu
Barry Stone
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Symphonic Performance
Mahler: Symphony No. 1, Austin Symphony
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1, Austin Symphony with Anne Akiko Meyers
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, Austin Symphony with Pepe Romero, Austin Goes Classical
Bruch: Concerto for Violin No. 1 and 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 and Bolcom: Three Rags for String Quartet, Aeolus Quartet
Adam Holzman with the Miró Quartet, Austin Goes Classical
Bach's Herd of Harpsichords, La Follia Austin Baroque
Convivencia: The Three Worlds of Renaissance Spain, 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
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 and Austin Chamber Music Center
Flight, Austin Lyric Opera
La Hija de Rappaccini, UT Butler Opera Center
La Traviata, Austin Lyric Opera
Singer
Pamela Armstrong, La Traviata
David Farwig, Renaissance & Response: Polyphony Then and Now
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: Polyphony Then and Now
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 w/ 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 Harpsichords
Ensemble
Aeolus Quartet
Bel Cuore Quartet
Line Upon Line
Miró Quartet
Mother Falcon
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
The 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 Keeton, Influences: A Cinematic Showdown
Travis Knights, Voices of Rhythm/Are You Listening to Me?
Aara Krumpe, "silence within silence"/La Sylphide
Michelle Martin, La Sylphide
Anuradha Naimpally, Parampara II
Erica Santiago, Here.Me.Now.
Christopher Swaim, La Sylphide
Jaime Lynn Witts, Kai
Ensemble Performance
Kai, Ballet Austin
La Sylphide, Ballet Austin
One, Blue Lapis Light
"Working the Line," The Meeting Point
Touring Show
Cédric Andrieux, Jérôme Bel, presented by Fusebox Festival
Cuando los Disfraces se Cuelgan, Delfos Danza Contemporánea, presented by Texas Performing Arts
Tango Buenos Aires, presented by Long Center
There is so much mad in me, Faye Driscoll, presented by testperformancetest and Fusebox Festival
dance, classical, performance
