B. Iden Payne Nominations Announced!

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy
Marc Balester (Edward de Vere, "The Beard of Avon")
Jason Newman (Arlecchino, "The Three Cuckolds")
Matthew Radford (Captain Jack Absolute, "The Rivals")
Espie Randolph (Tony Whitcomb, "Shear Madness")
Steven Tomlinson (everyone, "American Fiesta")

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy
Babs George (Trish Platt, "House & Garden")
Helen Merino (Haley, "Bad Dates")
Bernadette Nason (Mrs. Malaprop, "The Rivals")
Bernadette Nason (Shirley, "Shirley Valentine")
Nikki Zook (Pegeen Mike, "The Playboy of the Western World")

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Comedy
Joe Hartman (Henry Wriothesley, Player, "The Beard of Avon")
Robert Matney (Acres, "The Rivals")
Robert Newell (Bruce Willenzik, Brewster McCracken, Will Wynn, P.J. Kramer, Bill Black, Glen Maxey, David “Soup Peddler” Ansell, Jody Denberg, French Ambassador, Paul Carrozza, "Keepin’ It Weird")
Blake Smith (Zanni, "The Three Cuckolds")
David Stokey (Gavin Ryng-Mayne, "House & Garden")

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Comedy
Bobby Erb (Ursula, "The Oldest Profession")
Babs George (Lady Wishfort, "The Way of the World")
Heather Hanna (Health Inspector, "Pale Idiot")
Larissa Wolcott (Barbara DeMarco, "Shear Madness")

DRAMAS

Outstanding Production of a Drama
"Decameron Day 7: Revenge" (Rude Mechanicals)
"The Evidence of Silence Broken" (Hyde Park Theatre)
"The Exonerated" (Zachary Scott Theatre Center)
"The Glory of Living" (Hyde Park Theatre)
"I Am My Own Wife" (Zachary Scott Theatre Center)

Outstanding Director of a Drama
Lowell Bartholomee ("A Human Interest Story")
Dave Steakley ("The Exonerated")
Dave Steakley ("I Am My Own Wife")
Ken Webster ("The Evidence of Silence Broken")

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama
Robert Faires (Joseph Mitchell, "Up in the Old Hotel")
Zell Miller, III (performer, "The Evidence of Silence Broken")
Glenn Peters (Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, "I Am My Own Wife")
Brent Werzner (Josh, "Static")
Ben Wolfe (Ali, "The Retreating World")

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama
Theresa Baldwin (Charlotte, "A Brief History of Helen of Troy")
Robbie Ann Darby (Varvara Nikhailovna, "The Summer People")
Liz Fisher (Allison, "Minus Tide")
Babs George (Queen Elizabeth [wife to King Edward IV], "Richard III")
Kelsey Kling (Lisa, "The Glory of Living")
Sarah Seaton (Gerda Christow, "The Hollow")

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Drama
Kenneth Wayne Bradley (Carl, "The Glory of Living")
Ryan Ciardo (Freddie, "A Brief History of Helen of Troy")
Brian Coughlin (King Henry VIII, "A Man for All Seasons")
Travis Dean (Joe Gould, "Up in the Old Hotel")
Matthew Radford (Duke of Buckingham, "Richard III")

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Drama
Tish Brandt (Sue, Sunny, "The Exonerated")
Chase Crossno (slot machine, abused child, Flamingo Hotel, "Flesh and the Desert")
Sharon Elmore (Lady Angkatell, "The Hollow")
Ellie McBride (Mother, "A Human Interest Story")
Patricia Pearcy (Queen Margaret, "Richard III")

MUSIC THEATER

Outstanding Production of Music Theater
"Americamisfit" (Salvage Vanguard Theater)
"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!" (Theater at the J)
"La Putain Avec les Fleurs: A Junk Melodrama" (RoHo Productions)
"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (Zilker Theatre Productions)
"Urinetown: The Musical" (Zachary Scott Theatre Center)

Outstanding Director of Music Theater
K.C. Gussler ("Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!")
Ginger Morris & Robin Lewis ("Seven Brides for Seven Brothers")
Jason Neulander ("Americamisfit")
Dave Steakley ("Urinetown")

Outstanding Lead Actor in Music Theater
Danny Bolero (Cesar, "Cesar and Rubin")
Marc Pouhé (Mr. Cladwell, "Urinetown")
David Sattler (Bobby Strong, "Urinetown")
Brent Werzner (Big Harpe, "Americamisfit")
Blake Yelavich (Tom, "The Thing About Men")

Outstanding Lead Actress in Music Theater
Jill Blackwood (Hope Cladwell, "Urinetown")
Leslie Hollingsworth (Milly, "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers")
Megan Knotz (Irene Goodnight, "Inside a Broken Clock")
Melissa Vogt (Countess Erzsebet Bathori, "Vampyress")
Sarah Zeringue (Maria, "West Side Story")

Outstanding Featured Actor in Music Theater
Brian Coughlin (Melvin P. Thorpe, "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas")
Joe Hartman (diva, mermaid, et al., "When Pigs Fly")
Doug Lebelle (torch singer, teacher, et al., "When Pigs Fly")
Jason Newman (Rockabilly Boy, "Americamisfit")
Robert Pierson (Moses Doss, Robert E. Lee, Henry Ford, Ronald Reagan, J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Americamisfit")

Outstanding Featured Actress in Music Theater
Denice Brooks (ensemble, "Black Nativity")
Stephanie Elbel (Little Sally, "Urinetown")
Sheila King Knight (ensemble, "Black Nativity")
Meredith McCall (Penelope Pennywise, "Urinetown")
Betsy McCann (Stephan Hapsburg, "Vampyress")

PLAYS FOR YOUTH

Outstanding Production of a Play for Youth
"Alicia" (Zachary Scott Theatre Center Project InterAct)
"Patty’s Aesop Adventure" (Second Youth Family Theatre)
"The People Garden" (Zachary Scott Theatre Center Performing Arts School)
"Rumpelstiltskin" (Scottish Rite Children’s Theatre)
"The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fair(l)y (stoopid) Tales" (Summer Stock Austin)

Outstanding Director of a Play for Youth
Jaclyn Loewenstein ("The People Garden")
Andreá Smith ("Rumpelstiltskin")
Julianna E. Wright ("Patty’s Aesop Adventure")

Outstanding Actor in a Play for Youth
Nick Harkins (Stinky Cheese Man, "The Stinky Cheese Man")
Nathan Jerkins (Sleepy Pete, "Sleeping Beauty")
M. Roberto Orduña (Panadero, God of Lightning, "Two Donuts")
Zach Pettichord (Jack, "The Stinky Cheese Man")
Derek Whitener (Humpty Dumpty et al., "Alicia")

Outstanding Actress in a Play for Youth
Leslie Hollingsworth (Patty, "Patty’s Aesop Adventure")
Christina Houle (Alicia, "Alicia")
Gina Houston (Katherine, "Kissing the Goodbye")
Karen Jambon (Rumpelstiltskin, Miller, "Rumpelstiltskin")
Miriam Yucht Rubin (Bridgey, Wicked Witch, "Oz")
Andreá Smith (Narrator, "Charlotte’s Web")

CAST

Outstanding Cast Performance
"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!" (Theater at the J)
"In on It" (the dirigo group)
"Match-Play" (Rude Mechanicals)

Outstanding Ensemble Performance
Avery Ashwill & Ian Stilwell (Lobby and Kobby, "The Visit")
Michelle Flanagan, Miriam Robinson Gould & Katrina Ellsworth (the Furies, "Dark Goddess 2006")
Bernadette Nason & Janet Hurley Kimlicko (the Pigeon sisters, "The Odd Couple")
Errich Petersen & Douglas Rutherford (Kurt and Ram, "I Love My Dead Gay Son")
Andrea Skola & Jenny Larson (Sue and Betsey, "Americamisfit")

YOUTH
Outstanding Youth Performer
David Bologna (Ben, "Bugs")
Michael Fariss (Foxy, "The Stinky Cheese Man")
Taylor Flanagan (Teacher, "The Visit")
Aaron Moten (Borachio, "Much Ado About Nothing")
Madeline Newchurch (Lucy, "You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown")
Robert Shepard (Charlie Brown, Aug. 4, 7 [2 p.m.], 8, 10, 2005, "You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown")

TECHNICAL

Outstanding Set Design
Kim Gritzer ("The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune")
Rob Houle & Rocky Hopson ("La Putain Avec les Fleurs")
Christopher McCollum ("American Fiesta")
Michael Raiford ("Urinetown")
Blake Yelavich, Harold Guillory & Ia Layadi ("End of the World Party")

Outstanding Lighting Design
Jason Amato ("The Exonerated")
Jason Amato ("Urinetown")
Amiya Brown ("Richard III")
Brian Scott ("Match-Play")
Richard Winkler ("American Fiesta")

Outstanding Sound Design
Craig Brock ("I Am My Own Wife")
Craig Brock ("Urinetown")
DJ Brainchild & Zell Miller, III ("The Evidence of Silence Broken")
Robert S. Fisher ("Decameron Day 7: Revenge")
Phoebe Greene, Monica Ballard, Abbey Windham, Lisa Jasak & Mark Finn ("King Kong")

Outstanding Costume Design
Marann Faget ("The Beard of Avon")
Aerin Holman & Allison Lowry ("The Way of the World")
Buffy Manners ("The Rivals")
Esther Marquis ("The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune")
Blake Yelavich & Ia Layadi ("When Pigs Fly")

Outstanding Music Director
Michael McKelvey ("Seven Brides for Seven Brothers")
Phillip Owen ("Americamisfit")
Allen Robertson ("Urinetown")
Jan Seides ("Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!")

Outstanding Choreographer
Claire Augustine, Melissa Joiner & Lisa Chiraboga ("The Stinky Cheese Man")
K.C. Gussler ("Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!")
Lana Lesley, Kirk Lynn, Barney O’Hanlon & Shawn Sides ("Match-Play")
Robin Lewis ("Seven Brides for Seven Brothers")
Robin Lewis ("Urinetown")

Outstanding Original Script
Zell Miller, III ("Kissing the Goodbye")
Dave Steakley ("Keepin’ It Weird")
Steven Tomlinson ("American Fiesta")
Julianna E. Wright ("Patty’s Aesop Adventure")

Outstanding Original Score
Brian C. Billings ("Patty’s Aesop Adventure")
Phillip Owen & Dan Dietz ("Americamisfit")
Chad Salvata ("Vampyress")
Kyle Sigrest ("The Beard of Avon")

Special Certificate
"Red Cans" for Innovation (Rubber Repertory & Rude Mechanicals)

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