 | Playwriting Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the
Arts |
| Winner, Stage 3 playwriting competition, for The
Poetry of Pizza |
| The University of Missouri/St. Louis’s Women’s Playwriting
competition, 2nd place, for The Poetry of Pizza |
| Ruby Lloyd Aspey Playwriting Award for The Poetry of
Pizza |
| Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant for The Poetry of
Pizza |
| CEC Artslink grant to write The Velvet Weapon,
a comedy about the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, in
collaboration with Pavel Dobrusky and the 9 Gates Theatre
Festival in Prague. |
| Gold Medalist, Pinter Review Prize for Drama, for
Signs of Life |
| Winner, Theatre Conspiracy playwriting contest,
Signs of Life |
| Finalist, Hudson River Classics playwriting contest,
The Poetry of Pizza |
| Coyote Goes Salmon Fishing selected for the
first NYC Musical Theatre Festival |
| EST/Sloan Science Foundation Commission for a new play
about the scientists who made the first moon landing possible.
This work was also awarded The Galileo Prize making it their
lead commission for 2003 |
| Signs of Life won 2nd place in Hanover
College's International Playwriting Competition on Religion
and Vocation, funded with a grant from Lilly Endowment. |
| New York Foundation on the Arts (NYFA)
Playwriting Fellowship |
| Harburg Foundation grant to develop
Goodbye My Island with composer David Friedman |
| Jane Chambers Playwriting Award for
Signs of Life |
| Silver medal, Onassis International
Playwriting Competition, The Women of Lockerbie
|
| Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays
Award, The Women of Lockerbie |
| Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theatre
for Coyote Goes Salmon Fishing |
| Joe Calloway Award for service to New
Dramatists |
| Cameron MacIntosh grant to develop
Goodbye My Island with composer David Friedman |
| Bay Area Playwright’s Festival, San
Francisco, for The Women of Lockerbie |
| Geva Theatre New Play Festival, for
The Women of Lockerbie |
| Honorable Mention, Auricle Award, for
Signs of Life |
| Honorable Mention, Hollywood Symposium
Screenwriting Contest for Mexico in Alaska |
| Chesterfield Film Co. Screenwriting
Fellowship finalist |
| Sundance Institute Screenwriter’s Lab
finalist for Mexico in Alaska |
| L. Arnold Weissberger Award for Into
the Fire, |
| National Playwrights (O’Neill)
Conference for The Women of Lockerbie , |
| Shenandoah International Playwrights
Retreat for The Women of Lockerbie |
| Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Contest
finalist for Mexico in Alaska |
| Dramatist Guild Musical Theatre Award for
King Island Christmas |
| National Theatre Conference/Paul Green
Foundation award for musical book writing |
| Danish American Nationals Cultural Exchange fellowship for
residency in Denmark |
| Finalist, Providence Film Foundation
Screenwriting Contest for Covered Dishes |
| Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theatre
for King Island Christmas |
| Finalist, National Play Award, for
Into the Fire |
| Commission from Fox Searchlight Films &
Goat Cay Productions for Covered Dishes |
| Clauder Competition, Rhode Island winner
for Into the Fire |
| Dramatists Guild Musical Theatre Award for
Coyote Goes Salmon Fishing |
| Australian National Playwright’s
Conference, Canberra, Australia for Into the Fire
|
| Finalist, International Musical of the Year
for Coyote Goes Salmon Fishing, Denmark |
| National Playwrights Conference (O’Neill)
1995, for Into the Fire |
| NEA Fellowship for Residency in Mexico,
1994 |
| Lee Korf Playwriting Award for
Blue Moon Over Graceland |
| Admitted to New Dramatists, 1994 |
| MacDowell Colony Fellow, 1994 |
| Sundance Institute Screenwriter’s Lab
Finalist for Covered Dishes, 1994 |
| Harburg Foundation commission for article
"Musical Theatre is Epic Theatre" 1994 |
| Legacy Award, Rites and Reason Theatre,
Providence RI, 1993 |
| Playwriting Fellowship, Brown University,
1991-93 |
| Playwriting Fellowship, Alaska State
Council on the Arts, 1991 |
| Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting Award
for Signs of Life, 1989. |
| Alaska Repertory Theatre DramaQuest contest
winner for The Last Frontier Club, 1988 |
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