The nominations for the 2016-17 Austin Critics’ Table Awards were released, and many faculty, students and alumni of the College of Fine Arts made the cut. See a full list of nominations at the Austin Chronicle.
Winners were announced on June 5, and are bolded below. View the full list of winners.
Music
Original Composition/Score
String Quartet No. 4, Yevgeniy Sharlat
Potential, line upon line percussion
Singer
Donnie Ray Albert, The Manchurian Candidate/I, Too: The Voices of Langston Hughes
Tim O’Brien, LOLA@4th Tap: January
Ensemble
line upon line percussion
Chamber Performance
Drumming, line upon line percussion, for Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company’s More or Less
Sacred Shadows, Ensemble VIII with Jim Morrow
Schumann Chamber Players, Austin Chamber Music Festival
Visual Art
Solo Gallery Exhibition
“Tammie Rubin: Before I Knew You, I Missed You,” de stijl | PODIUM FOR ART
“Tania Mouraud: Everyday Ogres,” UT Visual Arts Center
Group Gallery Exhibition
“ANTHROPOCENE: Jonas Hart, Dameon Lester & Melissa Loop,” grayDUCK Gallery
"Femme National(e): Audrey Brown, Christina Coleman, Kasumi Chow / Desiree Michelle Espada, Emmy Laursen, Juliana Isabel Ramirez," Pump Project
“The First Horizons of Juno: Christina Coleman, Jane Hugentober, Candice Lin, Karen Lofgren, Christine Rebet, Alice Wang and Chantal Wnuk,” MASS Gallery
“March ON!” Christian-Greene Gallery at the Warfield Center
“One/Sixth,” de stijl | PODIUM FOR ART
Independent Project
“FinalCon,” Museum of Human Achievement, Ink Tank, Dys/Mem, Drew Paryzer, and Gwar
Spam’s, The Internet Diner, Museum of Human Achievement, Rachel Stuckey, curator
XYZ Atlas, Jennifer Chenoweth
Gallery, Body of Work
Flatbed Complex
Museum of Human Achievement
Artist
Amy Hauft
Beili Liu
Theatre
Production
Buyer and Cellar (ZACH Theatre) directed by Nat Miller (M.F.A. 2008), Costume Design by Blair Hurry (B.A. 2004)
Hand to God (Capital T Theatre), Rebecca Robinson (attended)
Lungs (Hyde Park Theatre) directed by Lily Wolff (B.A. 2011), Michael Joplin (B.A. 2004)
Direction
Rudy Ramirez (current Ph.D. candidate), A Perfect Robot
Lily Wolff (B.A. 2011), Lungs
David Mark Cohen New Play Award
Dust by Nicole Oglesby (B.A. 2016)
A Perfect Robot by Sarah Saltwick (M.F.A. 2013)
Underground by Lisa B. Thompson (faculty)
The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Allen Robertson (M.F.A. 1992) and Damon Brown
With Great Difficulty, Alice Sits by Hannah Kenah (current M.F.A. in Playwriting candidate)
Performance by an Ensemble
Atlantis, A Puppet Opera (Ethos with The Vortex): Justin LaVergne (B.A. 2016), Jason Amato (attended)
The Great Society (ZACH Theatre): Shelby Davenport (B.F.A. 1996), Michael Miller (M.F.A. 1994)
Performance by an Individual
Michael Joplin (B.A. 2004), Lungs
Design
Scenic Design
Theada Bellenger (B.A. 2006), The Adams Family
Lisa Laratta (M.F.A. 2008), Poor Herman
Costume Design
Jennifer Davis (M.F.A. 2009), Wolf Hall/Pride and Prejudice
E.L. Hohn (M.F.A. 2017), In the Red and Brown Water
Lighting Design
Don Day (B.F.A. 1975, M.F.A. 1983), John
Kate Ducey (M.F.A. 2017), The Drowning Girls
Dance
Short Work
Black is the New Black by Oluwaseun Samuel Olayiwola (current student)
Slowness by Jun Shen (M.F.A. 2016)
Choreographer
Kathy Dunn Hamrick (B.A. 1981), More or Less/The Four (Three) Seasons/"Salud"
Dancer
Jeremy Arnold (faculty), Listen - With Ears Wide Open
Ellen Bartel (faculty), Ocean/Potential
Lisa Anne Kobdish (B.F.A. 2010), More or Less/Potential/"Salud"
Amy Marrow (faculty), Hiraeth/We've Been Here Before/Save Our Spaces Second Line March
Ensemble
Dance Repertory Theatre, Momentum (Texas Theatre and Dance)
Frank Wo/Men Collective, Loose Gravel: Kelsey Oliver (B.F.A. 2015), Mario Ramirez (current student), Robert Di Donato (B.A. 2016), Eric Saucedo (B.F.A. 2014)
Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company, More or Less: Lisa Anne Kobdish (B.F.A. 2010), Kathy Dunn Hamrick (B.A. 1981)