Dave Steakley has been a busy man during the past 10 years. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find another local director who has worked as much for as long. But telling you that will never have the impact that seeing it for yourself will, so herewith are all the shows that Steakley has directed and the honors they’ve received lined up back to back. Since 1992, 47 productions, 29 of them new, 18 of them remounts; 22 musicals, 7 straight plays; 2 B. Iden Payne Awards for Outstanding Director of a Musical, 2 Austin Critics Table Awards for Outstanding Director of a Drama, 7 Critics Table Awards for Outstanding Director of a Musical (covering 12 shows in all).
1992
Beehive (Payne Awards: Outstanding Musical; Director, Musical; Choreography; Critics Table Awards: Outstanding Musical Revue; Director, Musical)
1993
Beehive Christmas Party* (Critics Table Award: Outstanding Musical Revue)
1994
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
Beehive*
Soul Sisters
Forever Plaid (Critics Table Awards: Director, Musical; Outstanding Movement)
Rockin’ Christmas Party*
1995
Dreamgirls (Payne Awards: Outstanding Musical; Director, Musical; Critics Table Awards: Outstanding Musical; Director, Musical; Outstanding Movement)
Beehive*
Avenue X (Critics Table Award: Outstanding Musical)
Rockin’ Christmas Party*
1996
Soul Sisters
Beehive
The Gospel at Colonus (Payne Award: Outstanding Musical; Critics Table Awards: Outstanding Musical; Director, Musical)
Rockin’ Christmas Party*
1997
Ruthless! The Musical (Critics Table Award: Director, Musical)
Dreamgirls* (Payne Award: Outstanding Musical)
The Taffetas
Forever Plaid
Rockin’ Christmas Party*
1998
Blues in the Night
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches (Critics Table Awards: Outstanding Drama; Director, Drama)
The Who’s Tommy (Critics Table Awards: Director, Musical; Outstanding Movement)
Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika
The Santaland Diaries
Rockin’ Christmas Party*
1999
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Beehive
The Mystery of Irma Vep
The Rocky Horror Show (Critics Table Award: Outstanding Musical)
The Santaland Diaries
Rockin’ Christmas Party*
2000
The America Play (Critics Table Award: Director, Drama)
Tapestry: The Music of Carole King
Evita (Critics Table Award: Director, Musical)
The Santaland Diaries
Rockin’ Christmas Party*
2001
Jouét (Critics Table Awards: Outstanding Musical; Director, Musical)
Jelly’s Last Jam (Critics Table Awards: Outstanding Musical; Director, Musical)
The World Goes Round (Critics Table Award: Director, Musical)
Little Shop of Horrors
The Santaland Diaries
Rockin’ Christmas Party*
2002
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Critics Table Award: Director, Musical)
The Laramie Project (Critics Table Award: Outstanding Drama)
The Pavilion
Hair
This article appears in July 12 • 2002.