Awards and Honors

To see a complete production history of all plays, see the résumé in PDF. (This link will open in a new window.)

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A Question of Color

• Ostrander Award (Memphis TN) for Best Original Script (2005)
• Silver Medal in the Pinter Review Prize for Drama (2005)
• Third runner-up in the Catawba College's Peterson Playwriting Competition (2002)
• Winner, Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition - Alleyway Theatre, Buffalo NY (2001)
• Finalist in the full-length play category of The Association for Theatre in Higher Education's PlayWorks (2001)
• Semi-finalist in the Playwrights' Center PlayLabs (2001)
• The Question of Color (screenplay) - Finalist, Sundance screenplay competition, 2002

Ain't Ethiopia (screenplay)

• Finalist, Filmmakers Screenplay Competition, one of 20 scripts selected out 1253 entries (2005)
• Selected for the IFP Market & Conference, one of 200 projects selected out of 1600 submissions (2004)

Ain't Ethiopia (stage play)

• Semi-Finalist, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2010 National Playwrights Conference (2010)
• Finalist, MultiStages New Works Festival (2009)

Bright Gold Promise

• One of six finalists in Boston Theatre Works BTW Unbound Festival of New Plays (2001)

Click

• Best Play in the 7th Annual Turnip Theatre 15-Minute Play Festival, also winning Best Actor and an honorable mention for Best Director (2001)

Downsize

• Semi-finalist in the Actors Theatre of Louisville Ten-Minute Play Contest (1998)

Esquina

• Winner of the Boston Theater Works BTW Unbound Festival of New Plays (2004)

Fare Thee Well

• Finalist in the 8th Annual West Coast Ten-Minute Play Contest (2001)

If Cleanliness

• Commissioned by the Metropolitan Theatre for a festival of historical plays about New York's Lower East Side (2004)

In The Fort

• Inner Voices Social Issues Theatre selected script (2005)

The Greed Gene

• Region II finalist in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (2004)

Love Letters

• Finalist in the Lamia Ink International One-Page Play Competition (1999)

Macbeth's Children

• Winner of the 2003-2004 American Alliance of Theatre and Education Unpublished Playreading Project. Presented at the AATE conference in Salt Lake City, UT (2004)
• Winner, Youth Play division, Sonoma Country Repertory's SCRipts Festival (2002)

No More Prisons

• Honorable Mention in the New Works for Young Woman Competition, University of Tulsa, OK (2004)

The Patron Saint of Geeks

• Finalist in the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Children's Play Competition (2000)
• Semi Finalist in the Unpublished Play Reading Project of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education (1999 2000)

Pictures at an Exhibition and Truces/Treguas

• Semi finalists, Harvest Festival of New American Plays - State Theater Company, Austin TX (1999)

Special Vagina Unit

• Commissioned by Shotgun Productions, Inc.'s for their first 24-hour Dramathon (2003)

Translation

• Winner, Eric Bentley New Play Competition of the New Phoenix Theatre of Buffalo, NY (2000)
• Honorable mention, Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop's Script Writing Competition (1998)