For over 40 years, the B. Iden Payne Awards Council has recognized outstanding theatrical performance, production and design in Austin. Our volunteer committee, composed of theatre professionals and lifelong audience members, sees hundreds of shows each year to ensure every eligible production is considered.
What We're Seeing Next
These unprecedented times provide us with an unprecedented opportunity. The productions below have all been submitted for consideration for our new digital B. Iden Payne Awards.
Yellow links below will take you to externally hosted viewing pages. Information in green below will take you to donation pages for each organization, or will provide Venmo handles.
We encourage you to donate as generously as you are able, to help tide over our community until this pandemic has subsided.
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The 27 Club, Ground Floor Theatre
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The Ballad of Robert E. Lee, Ground Floor Theatre
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Self Portraits 2.5, Bottle Alley Theater Company (Venmo @BottleRoyale)
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ImprovEd Shakespeare's As You Like It: A Zoom Play, ImprovEd Arts
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Quarantine, Trinity Street Players (when donating, select Trinity Street from the dropdown menu)
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PGraph Presents: Improvised 1950s B-Movie Horror, Parallelogramophonograph
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Virtual PGraph Show: The Book of Murder, Parallelogramophonograph
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HAMLET: Prince of Los Santos, The Virtual Theatre Ensemble. Live performance premieres on 07/31 (Venmo @WilliamSwift)
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All Access: The Austin Archives, Tilt Performance Group. Stream the performance starting 7/11 (Donate here)
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Young Shakespeare's The Two Gentleman of Verona, Austin Shakespeare. Replay on 7/2 at 7PM (Contact for the link).
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Stygian Crossing: Season 1, La Fenice (Venmo @digitalhatpass)
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The CoviDecameron: Redux pt 1, The Vortex Premieres 08/02
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The CoviDecameron: Redux pt 2, The Vortex Premieres 08/09