Give 'Em a Hand
The nominees for the 2009 Austin Critics Table Awards
By Robert Faires, Fri., May 15, 2009
THEATRE
Production, Drama
The Bird and the Bee, Capital T Theatre
Cyrano de Bergerac, Mary Moody Northen Theatre
Dug Up, Austin Playhouse
The Grapes of Wrath, Zach Theatre
The Idiot, UT Department of Theatre & Dance
The Nina Variations, Gobotrick Theatre Company
Ophelia, Tutto Theatre Company
Still Life With Iris, UT Department of Theatre & Dance
Production, Comedy
Age of Arousal, Austin Playhouse
Art, Penfold Theatre Company/City Theatre Company
Bomb Shelter: or the Modern Pinocchio,
Tongue and Groove Theatre
Bombs in Your Mouth, Hyde Park Theatre
The Clean House, Zach Theatre
Cloud 9, Mary Moody Northen Theatre
An Ideal Husband, Austin Shakespeare
Things in Life, Ben Prager
Production, Musical
Always ... Patsy Cline, TexARTS
Arthuriosis: A Metal Opera, Getalong Gang
Performance Group
Disney's Beauty and the Beast,
Zilker Theatre Productions
Caroline, or Change, Zach Theatre
The Last 5 Years, Penfold Theatre Company/
Austin Playhouse
Oklahoma!, Summer Stock Austin
The Pajama Game, Mary Moody Northen Theatre
Queenie Pie, Butler Opera Center
The Red Balloon, Tongue and Groove Theatre
Direction
Rod Caspers, The Bat
Eric Einhorn, Dialogues of the Carmelites
Scott Kanoff, The Idiot
Michael McKelvey, Oklahoma!/The Last 5 Years/
The Pajama Game
Michelle Polgar, Cyrano de Bergerac
Will Hollis Snider, The Nina Variations
Dave Steakley, Altar Boyz/Caroline, or Change/
The Grapes of Wrath
Lara Toner, Dug Up/Age of Arousal
Dustin Wills, Ophelia
David Yeakle, The Red Balloon
Acting in a Leading Role
Marc Balester, A Number
Barbara Chisholm, Shooting Star/The Clean House
Liz Fisher, Bombs in Your Mouth
David Gallagher, The Last 5 Years
Joey Hood, Bombs in Your Mouth
Annika Johansson, The Last 5 Years
Jenny Larson, Age of Arousal
Lauren Lane, The Clean House
David Long, Cyrano de Bergerac
Ben Prager, Things in Life
Selena Rosanbalm, Always ... Patsy Cline
Mark Scheibmeir, An Ideal Husband/
The Psyche Project
Janis Stinson, Caroline, or Change
Tom Truss, The Idiot
Jennifer Underwood, The Casket of Passing Fancy/
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Molly Wissinger, Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Chase Woolridge, The Bird and the Bee
Acting in a Supporting Role
Kate DeBuys, The Idiot
Verity Branco, A Midsummer Night's Dream/
An Ideal Husband
Janelle Buchanan, An Ideal Husband/
The Grapes of Wrath
Shavanna Calder, Caroline, or Change
Smaranda Ciceu, The Idiot
Lana Dieterich, The Grapes of Wrath
Jenny Gravenstein, Age of Arousal
Lesley Gurule, The Idiot
Boni Hester, A Flea in Her Ear
Ev Lunning, The Bat
Robert Matney, Twelfth Night
Marc Pouhé, The Three Sisters/Cyrano de Bergerac/
The Grapes of Wrath
Scott Shipman, Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Steve Shearer, Dancing at Lughnasa
Tom Truss, The Psyche Project
Ensemble Performance
Age of Arousal, Austin Playhouse
Altar Boyz, Zach Theatre
Art, Penfold Theatre Company/City Theatre Company
Cyrano de Bergerac, Mary Moody Northen Theatre
Glengarry Glen Ross, City Theatre Company
Ophelia, Tutto Theatre Company
The Red Balloon, Tongue and Groove Theatre
David Mark Cohen New Play Award
Dug Up, Cyndi Williams
The Idiot, Scott Kanoff
"Las Amandas," Michael Mares Mendoza
Ophelia, Dustin Wills
Radio Silence: a word opera, Zell Miller III
Things in Life, Ben Prager
Music Direction
Jeff Helmer, Queenie Pie
Lyn Koenning, Oklahoma!/Caroline, or Change/
Always ... Patsy Cline
Michael McKelvey, Disney's Beauty and the Beast/
Cloud 9/The Last 5 Years/The Pajama Game
Allen Robertson, The Grapes of Wrath
Movement
Case Dillard, Altar Boyz
Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique,
The Pajama Game
Robin Lewis, Oklahoma!
Jennifer Sherburn and David Yeakle, The Red Balloon
Judy Thompson-Price, Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Touring Show, Theatre
Avenue Q, UT Performing Arts Center
Elaine Stritch at Liberty, Austin Cabaret Theatre
Let Me Down Easy, Zach Theatre
Monty Python's Spamalot, UT Performing Arts Center
Spectacular, Forced Entertainment, Fusebox Festival
None of the Above
Bodies in Urban Spaces, Fusebox Festival
The Casket of Passing Fancy, Rubber Repertory
pink [unplugged], Art City Austin
Spaceman:Dada:Robot, Electronic Planet Ensemble
DESIGN
Scenic Design
Kevin Beltz, Still Life With Iris
Yvonne Boudreaux, The Idiot
Ann Marie Gordon, A Number
Lisa Laratta, Ophelia
David Nancarrow, The Bat
Sonja Rainey, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Cliff Simon, The Grapes of Wrath
Costume Design
Susan Branch, The Bat/The Grapes of Wrath
Abbey Graf, An Ideal Husband
Alison Heryer, The Idiot
Michael Hite, Queenie Pie
Kim H. Ngo, Ophelia/Cyrano de Bergerac
Ariana Schwartz, Still Life With Iris
Lighting Design
Jason Amato, Altar Boyz/Radio Silence: a word
opera/The Grapes of Wrath
Natalie George, Cyrano de Bergerac
Shawn Kaufman, Dialogues of the Carmelites
David Nancarrow, The Bat/Rigoletto
Will Sutliff, Still Life With Iris
Tony Tucci, Hamlet/The Nutcracker
Cheng-Wei Teng, The Idiot
Lih-Hwa Yu, The Shape of White
Sound Design
Craig Brock, Altar Boyz/The Grapes of Wrath
Billy Henry, The Idiot
Bill Mester, Dialogues of the Carmelites
Buzz Moran, Hamilton Township
Video Design
Duncan Alexander, The Color of Dissonance
Lowell Bartholomee and Michael Mergen,
The Method Gun
José Bustamante, The Shape of White
F. Joseph Santori, Fantasmaville
Leah Sharpe, The Red Balloon
Lee Webster, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon
Shell That Was Once Her Heart/Hamilton Township
DANCE
Dance Concert
Hamlet, Ballet Austin
In a Sense, American Repertory Ensemble
Skate! A Night at the Rink, Forklift Danceworks
Short Work
"Chicken Complex," Big Range Austin Dance Festival
"Crandall Canyon Mine," Big Range Austin Dance Festival
"Episodes," Ballet Austin Inaugural Season Opener
"john and I ...," In a Sense
"Platform Forward," Big Range Austin Dance Festival
"Searching," From Head to Toe
The Shape of White, David Mark Cohen New Works Festival
"Sparrows Gift," In a Sense
Choreographer
David Justin, "Speed Dial"/"Bach Sonata"/
"Snow Globe"/"Sparrows Gift"
Sharon Marroquin, "Garden"/"Crandall Canyon
Mine"/"Desprendimiento"
Eric Midgley, "Hang"
Andee Scott, The Shape of White
Dancer
Chika Aluka, "An Oval Braid," Second Wind
Paul Michael Bloodgood, "Episodes"/Hamlet
Michele Gifford, "Bach Sonata"/
"Rubies (pas de deux)," In a Sense
Ashley Lynn, "Episodes"/Hamlet/"Left Unsaid"
Sharon Marroquin, "Garden"/ "Crandall Canyon Mine"
Maia McCoy, "The Gambit," Second Wind
Rosalyn Nasky, "Fray," Big Range Austin Dance
Festival/Passion at Play
Allisyn Paino, Hamlet/The Studio Theater Project
Frank Shott, Hamlet
Kirby Wallis, "Songs of Innuendo"
Touring Show, Dance
Érection, testperformancetest/Fusebox Festival
Grub, tEEth, Fusebox Festival
Grupo Corpo, UT Performing Arts Center
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Fusebox Festival
Rammed Earth, Tere O'Connor, Dance Umbrella
Warriors and Queens: Radical Stagings of Gender and Sexuality in Dance, UT Department of Theatre & Dance, Performance as Public Practice, and
Center for Women's and Gender Studies
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Symphonic Performance
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, UT Symphony
Orchestra with UT Chamber Singers, Concert
Chorale, Men's Chorus, Women's Chorus, and
Choral Arts Society
Hoogerhyde: Lament, Austin Civic Orchestra
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5/Rossini:
L'italiana in Algeri, UT Symphony Orchestra
Schumann: Introduction and Allegro appassionato/
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1,
Austin Symphony with Anton Nel
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite, Austin Symphony
Welcher: Symphony No. 5, Austin Symphony
Chamber Performance
Anton Nel in Recital, Anton Nel
Golden Hornet Project Presents: Tosca String
Quartet, Tosca String Quartet
In Celebration of Mendelssohn's 200th Birthday,
Miró Quartet
In the Immortal Words of Dvorak: Let's Party,
Austin Chamber Music Center with Carpe Diem
Quartet
Reich: Drumming, UT Percussion Ensemble
Sound in Time: The Phenomenal Music of
Alvin Lucier, New Music Co-op
This Time It's Personal!, Viola by Choice
Choral Concert
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, UT Chamber Singers,
Concert Chorale, Men's Chorus, Women's
Chorus, and Choral Arts Society with
UT Symphony Orchestra
Complaints Through the Ages,
Texas Early Music Project
Ellington: Sacred Concert, Austin Chamber Music
Center/Huston-Tillotson University Concert Choir
Schubert: Mass in G/Vivaldi: Gloria,
Austin Civic Chorus
Rachmaninoff: Vespers, Conspirare
Verdi: Messa da Requiem, Conspirare Symphonic
Choir, Texas State University Choirs,
Victoria Bach Festival Chorus
Opera
The Bat, Austin Lyric Opera
La Curandera, Butler Opera Center
Dialogues of the Carmelites, Austin Lyric Opera
Eight Songs for a Mad King/The Tyrant,
UT New Music Ensemble
Rigoletto, Austin Lyric Opera
Winterreise/The Sorrows of Young Werther,
Austin Chamber Music Festival
Singer
Michele Angelini, Cinderella
Morgan Gale Beckford, Queenie Pie
John Boehr, Cinderella
Andrew Cannata, The Pajama Game
Sandra Piques Eddy, Cinderella
Gitanjali Mathur, Complaints Through the Ages
Elizabeth Pétillot, Viola by Choice
Lyubov Petrova, Rigoletto
Emily Pulley, Dialogues of the Carmelites
Suzanne Ramo, Dialogues of the Carmelites
Jenifer Thyssen, Complaints Through the Ages
Original Composition/Score
"Archetypes," Dries Berghman
Between Steel and Stardust (Songs of Texas
Women), Graham Reynolds and Carrie Fountain
The Color of Dissonance, Jason Hoogerhyde
"Light the Lovely Candles," Russell Reed
The Red Balloon, Justin Sherburn
"Songs & Dances," Jorge Morel
Symphony No. 5, Dan Welcher
Instrumentalist
Gregory Allen, Beethoven: "Archduke" Trio
Conor Brace, Queenie Pie
Thomas Burritt, Reich: Drumming
Graeme Francis, "Dark Circle"/"Snow Globe,"
In a Sense
Yu-Hsuan Liao, Valses Poéticos, Passion at Play
Elizabeth Lee, Dvorák: Concerto for Violoncello
and Orchestra
Anton Nel, Anton Nel in Recital
Michelle Schumann, Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Bion Tsang, Conspirare in Concert
Touring Classical
Borromeo String Quartet,
Austin Chamber Music Festival
Jupiter String Quartet, UT Performing Arts Center
Onix Ensamble, UT Performing Arts Center
Itzhak Perlman, UT Performing Arts Center
Weilerstein Trio, UT Butler School of Music
VISUAL ART
Museum Exhibition
"Fritz Henle: In Search of Beauty," Ransom Center,
curator: Roy Flukinger
"Lordy Rodriguez: States of America,"
Austin Museum of Art, curator: Eva Buttacavoli
"Matt Stokes: these are the days," Arthouse,
curator: Elizabeth Dunbar
"Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now,"
Austin Museum of Art, curators:
Dana Friis-Hansen and James Housefield
"The New York Graphic Workshop: 1964-1970,"
Blanton Museum of Art, curators: Gabriel Pérez-
Barreiro and Ursula Davila-Villa
"Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group
in 1960s New York" Blanton Museum of Art,
curator: Linda Dalrymple Henderson
Solo Gallery Exhibition
"Heyd Fontenot: Business in the Front,
Party in the Back," Art Palace
"Lance Letscher: Industry and Design,"
D Berman Gallery
"Laurie Frick: Collages," Gallery Shoal Creek
"Lee Baxter Davis," Texas Biennial at Pump Project
"Leslee Fraser: No Sure Footing,"
Women & Their Work
"Peat Duggins: Black Room," Art Palace
"Steve Brudniak: Noumenon," Butridge Gallery at
the Dougherty Arts Center
Group Gallery Exhibition
"The Activist Impulse," Women & Their Work,
curator: Regine Basha
"Bayanihan: Work From Manila," Okay Mountain,
curator: Tim Brown
"Photography in the Abstract," Lora Reynolds
Gallery, curator: Maureen Mahony
"Reality Show," Women & Their Work,
curator: Jill Pangallo
"Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure,"
Art Palace, curator: Katie Geha
Independent or Public Project
Resolution Clock, First Night Austin 2009
Exquisite Bee, Austin Video Bee
Okay Mountain Mural at Austin Ventures
Recreating the Domain, Alex Keller
Three Dollar Cinema, Paul Soileau and PJ Raval
12:19 Library, Fusebox Festival
Work of Art
Armada, Lisi Raskin, Blanton Museum of Art WorkSpace
Bait Box, Buster Graybill, Texas Biennial 2009
Homeland Security, Ken Little, Texas Biennial 2009
Let Me Entertain You, Jill Pangallo, Texas Biennial 2009
Stacked Waters, Teresita Fernández,
Blanton Museum of Art
Warthogramhawk, Jules Buck Jones,
Texas Biennial 2009
Wild Seed, Lauren Kelley, "Rapture in Rupture"
Artist
Sterling Allen
Heyd Fontenot
Anna Krachey
Jill Pangallo
Barry Stone
Touring Show, Art
"Birth of the Cool," Blanton Museum of Art
"Lewitt x 2," Austin Museum of Art
"Workers: Sebastião Salgado," Austin Museum of Art
