What a night! 😍 Big hugs were shared!
On Monday, November 11, 2024, hundreds of folks gathered at the Scottish Rite Theater for a cathartic evening of celebrating the best of the performing arts in Austin: The 50th Annual B. Iden Payne Awards. Dancers, actors, singers, musicians, stage managers, tech and lighting folks, directors, producers, and craftspeople – it was like one giant cast party.
And OOO walked away with TWO awards!
Congrats to the team behind An Artist Regrets, winner of “Outstanding Production of a Short Play!”
(Cast members Kristin Bilodeau, Mikaela Pace, Maureen Broy Papovich, and Angela Irving; Director & Producer Julie Fiore, Music Director Joseph Choi, Tech Director Gus Sterneman, Assistant Director Carol Brown, Stage Manager Suzanne Smith, and House Manager Carlee Abschneider; along with creators Nell Clowder and Linda Nenno)
And congratulations to Maureen Broy Papovich on your much-deserved award, “Outstanding Performer in a Short Play!”
For the greater theatre community to embrace and include our medium of dynamic storytelling in this way is just 🫶🫶🫶 – we are incredibly grateful to be part of this community in Austin, and reinvigorated to do the important work that performing artists do.
