Ken Webster
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Ken Webster is the artistic director of Hyde Park Theatre
in Austin, Texas. He has been nominated for 47 B. Iden Payne Awards
and 20 Critics' Table Awards for acting, directing, and producing. He has received fourteen B. Iden Payne Awards, including a 2008 award for directing "Dog Sees God" and a 2007 award for directing "The Pillowman", a 2004 award for directing The Drawer Boy and a 2003 award for directing Quake at HPT. He also won the 2007 Critics Table Award for Outstanding Lead Acting for "St. Nicholas" and "Thom Pain (based on nothing)", and a 2003 Austin Critics’ Table award for directing Something Someone Someplace Else and Marion Bridge for HPT, and was awarded the 1999 Critics’ Table John Bustin Award for "conspicuous achievement." His directing credits for HPT include "The Pillowman", "Thom Pain (based on nothing)", "My Child, My Child, My Alien Child", You're No One's Nothing Special, Lonely, The Evidence of Silence Broken, Chopper, The Glory of Living
, Radio :30, Ham, Blue Surge, Perdita
, Blur, and the world premiere of Art Stripped Naked. His acting credits include "Blackbird", "The Pillowman", The Water Principle, Vigil, and House for HPT. His recent film and television acting credits include Waking Life
, A Scanner Darkly
, and Friday Night Lights. Webster is the only director to have received the B. Iden Payne Award for directing in each of the last three decades. He was inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame in June 2006. Webster is married to Austin actress Katherine Catmull.
He recently did a voiceover in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
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Hyde Park Theatre
Founded in 1992, Hyde Park Theatre is an arts centers in Austin, Texas, that has produced over 50 world and regional premieres. In addition to a mainstage season, HPT curates the largest performance festival in the Southwest, FronteraFest.The quality of their work has been acknowledged by 46...
in Austin, Texas. He has been nominated for 47 B. Iden Payne Awards
Ben Iden Payne
Ben Iden Payne was an English actor, director and teacher. Born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, he was raised and educated in Manchester. He started his career as a walk-on actor in 1899. He served as director of the Abbey Theatre for a short time in 1907 and then returned to Manchester to work with Annie...
and 20 Critics' Table Awards for acting, directing, and producing. He has received fourteen B. Iden Payne Awards, including a 2008 award for directing "Dog Sees God" and a 2007 award for directing "The Pillowman", a 2004 award for directing The Drawer Boy and a 2003 award for directing Quake at HPT. He also won the 2007 Critics Table Award for Outstanding Lead Acting for "St. Nicholas" and "Thom Pain (based on nothing)", and a 2003 Austin Critics’ Table award for directing Something Someone Someplace Else and Marion Bridge for HPT, and was awarded the 1999 Critics’ Table John Bustin Award for "conspicuous achievement." His directing credits for HPT include "The Pillowman", "Thom Pain (based on nothing)", "My Child, My Child, My Alien Child", You're No One's Nothing Special, Lonely, The Evidence of Silence Broken, Chopper, The Glory of Living
The Glory of Living
The Glory of Living is a 1998 play by Rebecca Gilman. The play received its first production at the Circle Theater in Forest Park, Illinois. The play has won many awards and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.-Plot:...
, Radio :30, Ham, Blue Surge, Perdita
Perdita
Perdita , can mean:*Perdita , a very large genus of American native bees*Perdita , the heroine of Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale...
, Blur, and the world premiere of Art Stripped Naked. His acting credits include "Blackbird", "The Pillowman", The Water Principle, Vigil, and House for HPT. His recent film and television acting credits include Waking Life
Waking Life
Waking Life is an American animated film , directed by Richard Linklater and released in 2001. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame.The film focuses on the nature of dreams, consciousness, and...
, A Scanner Darkly
A Scanner Darkly (film)
A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 science fiction thriller directed by Richard Linklater based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly under intrusive high-technology police surveillance in the midst of a drug...
, and Friday Night Lights. Webster is the only director to have received the B. Iden Payne Award for directing in each of the last three decades. He was inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame in June 2006. Webster is married to Austin actress Katherine Catmull.
He recently did a voiceover in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is a first-person action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. It is the tenth game in the Metroid series, and the final entry in the Metroid Prime trilogy—excluding two spin-off titles. It was released in...
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