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Awards, Honors, Grants, Fellowships

Bloomsday selection, Irish Rep Theatre of Tallahassee, 2021

Pet Project, Bushwick Starr Theatre, NYC 2020

Free Speech National Play Contest, winning entry, PA, 2018

Shakespeare in the Burg winning entry, VA 2017

Theatre Odyssey, Winning entry.  FL 2017

Jan McArt New Play Series, Winning entry, FL  2017

365 Women a Year, Winning Entry, 2017

Tampa Bay Theatre Festival, Winning Entry, FL 2016

Equity Library Theatre Contest, Winning Entry, 2016 

Tampa Rep Short Play Contest, Winning entry, FL, 2015

Elite Theatre Playwriting Contest, Winning entry,  CA, 2014 

Unchained Theatre Festival, Winning entry,  NYC, 2014 

Tampa BayTheatre Festival, Winning entry,  FL, 2014

3rd Kulture Kids Award, Winner, NYC, 2013 

TampaWorks Contest Winner, FL, 2013

Tampa Rep Short Play Contest Winner, FL, 2013

Visions of War Festival Selection, NYC 2009 

Alternate Roots Festival Selection, Baltimore, 2007

Best Florida Play Award, Stageworks, Tampa, 2007 

First Light Festival winner, Theatre of the First Amendment, VA, 2007 

Impact Festival winner, Culture Project, NYC, 2006  

Fulbright Fellowship, playwright/lecturer, National University of Ireland, 2006 

Puffin Foundation grant, 2006

Enhancement Grant, Florida Arts Council, 2005 

John Ringling Fund Artists’ Fellowship, 2004

Enhancement Grant, Florida Arts Council, 2004

Puffin Foundation grant, 2003

Hawthornden Castle (Scotland) International Retreat, Guest Artist, 2002

The Play’s the Thing Contest winner, Players Theatre, FL, 2001

Second Florida Arts Council, Individual Artist's Fellowship, 1997-98 

W. Central FL Playwrights' Process Winner, 1997

W. Central FL Playwrights' Process co-winner (w. Jo Morello), 1996   

Valencia (FL) Character Co. Playwriting Contest, Winner, 1995  

Canada Council Grant, 1995

Utah Playfest National Award Winner, 1995

National Endowment for the Arts Grant (Canada), 1995

Fulbright Fellowship, playwright/lecturer, University de Salamanca (Spain), 1993-94  

Best Play Outside of NYC Nomination, American Theatre Critics Assn, 1993 

Pilgrim Project Development grant, 1993

Mount Holyoke College, Guest Faculty Playwright, 1992

North Carolina Playwrights' Festival, Guest Playwright, 1992

New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship/Playwriting, 1991 

Actors' Guild of Lexington New Play Festival, Winner, 1991

George R. Kernodle National One-Act Contest, 2nd place, 1991

Mt. Sequoyah New Play Retreat, Guest Artist, 1991

Florida Arts Council, Individual Artist's Fellowship, 1990-91 

Carnegie Mellon Showcase of New Drama, Guest Playwright, 1990

Festival of Southern Theatre Competition, Winner, 1989

Hawthornden Castle (Scotland) International Retreat, Guest Artist, 1989 

Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland), Guest Artist, 1989

Carnegie Fund For Writers, Grant Winner, 1987

Djerrasi Foundation, Fellowship, 1987

PEN Award, Winner, 1985

Avignon (France) Theatre Festival, Playwright, 1984 

Theatreworks/Colorado, Guest Playwright, 1984 

Aspen Festival, Guest Playwright, 1984

Sundance Institute, Guest Playwright, 1983

Yaddo, Fellow, 1983

Empire State Institute for Performing Arts, Guest Playwright, 1983

Hutchinson Repertory Company, Winner, Playwriting Award, 1982 

Northlight Repertory Company, Guest Playwright, 1982

Corp. for Pub. Broadcasting/American Playhouse, Commission, 1981

Minnesota Playwrights Lab., Guest Playwright, 1980

Dorset Writers' Colony Guest Artist, 1980, 81, 82, 84, 86, 87, 91

Actors Theatre of Louisville, Commissioned 1979 & 80

Millay Colony, Fellowship, 1979 

Edward Albee Foundation, Fellowship, 1978

National Endowment for the Arts, Grant, 1978

Nat'l Playwrights' Conference, O'Neill Theater Center, Guest Playwright, 1977

MacDowell Colony, Fellow, 1976

Jane L. Gilmore Playwriting Award, Winner, 1976

New Dramatists member, 1975-1982

Shubert Playwriting Fellowship, Winner, 1973

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