WE’RE MAKING HEADLINES
Congratulations to our EXIT STRATEGY cast and crew. 2023-2024 B. Iden Payne Award Nominees:
Outstanding Featured Performer in a Comedy - Jennifer Gonzalez (Pam)
Outstanding Young Performer - Edwin Lucas Anderson (Donnie)
Outstanding Intimacy Direction - Ana Martinez
Winners will be announced at the 50th Annual B. Iden Payne Awards Ceremony at Austin Scottish Rite Theater,
November 11th, 2024
Reviews for GOD OF CARNAGE
"A good play about bad behavior, made even better by a great production."
"Not since Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? have well-educated adults shed their skin so completely and behaved so badly. But while Albee's two couples are purely tragic, Reza's are savagely comic, made even more so by the brilliant performances of an all-in ensemble and director Robyn Conner's attention to detail."
Bob Abelman, Austin Chronicle
"Dark comedy at its best."
"The ensemble cast is excellent, Winkler, Embry, Turner, and Young have incredible comic timing and are on point getting the most emotional impact from their audience."
"Conner's direction is clear and clean, giving the show a real life feel which is not an easy task."
Lynn Beavers, BroadwayWorld Austin
In December 2023, a pivotal scene within God of Carnage was called out by Bob Abelman as #4 in Austin Chronicle's Top 10s 2023 Issue, "Top 10 Memorable Moments in Austin Theatre"
Reviews for THE OUTSIDER
PRESS RELEASE: CAST ANNOUNCED FOR BEYOND AUGUST PRODUCTIONS' THE OUTSIDER
"... Beyond August Productions delivers the goods. The laughter begins as soon as the action begins and continues through the final curtain call."
CTX Live Theatre
Reviews for WONDER OF THE WORLD
REVIEW: BROADWAY WORLD AUSTIN
REVIEW: WONDER OF THE WORLD - HILARIOUS DARK COMEDY (BROADWAYWORLD.COM)
REVIEW: CENTRAL TEXAS LIVE THEATRE
WONDER OF THE WORLD | CTX LIVE THEATRE
REVIEW: SUN NEWS AUSTIN
WONDER OF THE WORLD – SUN NEWS AUSTIN
Congratulations...
The cast and crew of THE OUTSIDER were nominated for their SIX B. Iden Payne awards for the 2022-23 season. Congratulations to our two winners: Michael Stuart 'Outstanding Featured Performer in a Comedy (Governor Ned Newley) and Jeff Hinkle 'Outstanding Direction of a Comedy'.
Additional Nominations:
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Outstanding Production of a Comedy - THE OUTSIDER
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Outstanding Featured Performer in a Comedy - Robyn Conner (Louise Peakes)
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Outstanding Featured Performer in a Comedy - Shannon Embry (Paige Caldwell)
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Outstanding Large Cast - THE OUTSIDER
WONDER OF THE WORLD was produced by Beyond August Productions with City Theatre in fall 2021 at Trinity Street Playhouse, and received three B. Iden Payne nominations, and one win!
Kevin Anderson as Captain Mike - WINNER of 'Outstanding Featured Performer in a Comedy'!
Kudos as well to these two additional cast members for their 2021-22 B. Iden Payne nominations for category 'Outstanding Featured Performer in a Comedy'!
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Robyn Conner as Lois
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Shannon Embry as Barbara/Pilot/Waitresses/Janie
Jill Klopp Turner, 2023 Austin Chronicle 33rd Annual Reader's Poll Finalist - Best Actor
