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