Austin Critics’ Table Awards nominations announced
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- Justin D. Offline
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Looking at the categories, it doesn't seem like a lack of respect. More like they wouldn't know what category to put an improvised show in or even how to judge it when compared to the other shows.
Take any great run of shows you saw this past year and try to put it in the Comedy Production category. Doesn't matter which one. Shakespeare, Ka-Baam!!, Boys of Summer, Some Like It Improvised, or one of the myriad of other shows I didn't list. None of them really fit when put up against the other productions. It's not because they're inferior or superior either, but it's a matter of judging improv (ever-changing by nature) shows versus scripted shows.
Now, maybe that's a case for them having an improv category in there.
Take any great run of shows you saw this past year and try to put it in the Comedy Production category. Doesn't matter which one. Shakespeare, Ka-Baam!!, Boys of Summer, Some Like It Improvised, or one of the myriad of other shows I didn't list. None of them really fit when put up against the other productions. It's not because they're inferior or superior either, but it's a matter of judging improv (ever-changing by nature) shows versus scripted shows.
Now, maybe that's a case for them having an improv category in there.
This is something that we obviously face a lot. I think the onus is on us to figure out a way for us to be included. Even we have trouble answering that question.
Not only do we not have a very good way to boil improv down to one category for ourselves, but we haven't come up with a way for an outsider to choose a category or to judge us within that category.
Maybe there isn't a way to do those things. Maybe that's the downside to our art form that changes so drastically from troupe to troupe and show to show.
Has any city (I'm looking at you, Chicago) come up with a way to be judged for award recognition purposes in improv?
Not only do we not have a very good way to boil improv down to one category for ourselves, but we haven't come up with a way for an outsider to choose a category or to judge us within that category.
Maybe there isn't a way to do those things. Maybe that's the downside to our art form that changes so drastically from troupe to troupe and show to show.
Has any city (I'm looking at you, Chicago) come up with a way to be judged for award recognition purposes in improv?
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- Asaf Offline
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The ECNY Awards in New York have improv categories, but that is a comedy competition:
http://www.ecnyawards.com/categories
http://www.ecnyawards.com/categories
