Sewanee Writer’s Conference, 2021
The Truth Quotient – full length
*Full production – Resonance Ensemble – Beckett
Theatre (NY)
*Winner – North American Voices/ United Kingdom – rehearsed reading at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London)
*Winner – Ashland New Plays Festival (OR)
*Finalist (1of 3 and the only American playwright) – STAGE International Script Competition for the best new play about science and technology.
*Finalist (1 of 10) – Writer’s Center (MD), Undiscovered Voices Scholarship
*Finalist (1 of 5) – Reverie Productions (NY)
*Finalist (1 of 10) – Woodward/Newman Award
*Finalist (1 of 6) – Dayton Playhouse FutureFest
*Finalist – First Flight Festival – Boomerang Theatre (NY)
A Question of Words – full length
*Full production – Camelot Theater, Talent, OR
*Full production – The Studio @ 620 (FL)
*Full production – The Barn (CA)
*Winner – Ashland (OR) New Plays Festival
*Winner – TRU (Theater Resources Unlimited-NY) reading series
NOTE: a section of this play has been published by Smith & Kraus, entitled, The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2015
Life is Mostly Straws – full length
*Full production – The Studio @ 620 (FL)
*Full academic production – winner of the Pillars Prize – (GCSU)
*Winner – Pillars Playwriting Prize – (GCSU)
*Winner – International Theatrical Arts Institute (IATI) Play Development Program
*Winner – Todd McNerney National Playwriting Award (SC – Piccolo Spoleto)
*Winner – Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival (CA)
*First Runner Up – Getchell Award (Southeastern Theatre Conference)
*2nd Place – Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence.
*Finalist (1 of 2) Stanley Drama Award/ Wagner College (NY)
*Finalist (1 of 10) Woodward/Newman Drama Award/Bloomington Playwrights Project *Finalist – Phoenix Theatre New Works Festival (AZ)
An Ignorant Man – full length
*Full production by the Stonington Players (CT)
*Winner – W. Keith Hedrick Award (HRC Showcase Theatre – NY)
*Winner – Brevard New Play Competition (NC)
*Finalist – Dezart Performs – play reading series (CA)
*Finalist – Oberon Theatre Reading Series (NY)
*Finalist – First Look Festival – Open Fist Theatre (LA/Hollywood)
*Finalist – McLaren Competition (TX)
This Rough Magic – full length
*Winner – John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award (New England Theatre Conference)
*Winner – Core Artists Ensemble
*Finalist – Theater Arts at Cal Tech
*Finalist – American Association of Community Theatres (AACT)
*Finalist – Orange County New Play Festival (OC Centric)
Thank Emily – one-act
*Full production – The Gallery Players (NY)
*Full production – Willits Shakespeare Festival (CA)
*Finalist – Full production – Valley Repertory Company (CT)
*Finalist – Full Production – American Globe Theatre (NY)
*Finalist – EstroGenius Festival, a part of Manhattan Theatre Source
*Finalist – Nantucket Short Play Festival
*Chosen for the Long Beach Arts Reading series, 2012 – Long Beach Arts Council
*Play of the month for NYC Playwrights
Apparently Not – one-act.
*Full Production – Sundog Theatre (NY)
*Winner – Seedlings Festival – Theatricum Botanicum Theatre (LA)
Chew Toy Research – one-act
*Full Production – the Stonington Players (CT)
*Full Production – Pend Oreille Players (WA)
Maybe You Die Happier – full length
*Finalist (3/500) – Red Theater (Chicago) Playwriting Competition
*Chosen by the Drama Department of Brooklyn College for a rehearsed reading by grad students in front of the faculty.
Quietus – full length
*Winner – Road Theater Festival of New Plays (CA)
*Finalist – The Navigators Theater (NY)
*Finalist – TRU Play Reading Series (NY)
*Finalist – Penobscot Theatre’s Northern Writes New Play Festival
*Finalist – W. Keith Hedrick Award (HRC Showcase Theatre – NY)
*Finalist – Dayton Playhouse FutureFest (OH)
*Finalist – Oglebay Institute’s Towngate Prize (WV)
*Finalist – Reva Shiner Playwriting Contest (IN)
*Finalist – Relative Theatrics – Playwrights Voiced (WY)
*Chosen by the Ashland New Plays Festival as a fund-raising vehicle
*Chosen by the IATI Theater (NY) for a fully funded development program, leading to a reading at LaMama (NY)
*Chosen by the Playwrights and Directors Unit of The Actors Studio (NY) for a rehearsed reading
Tracks – full length (TYA – high school)
Virtual production (Aug 2020) – Resonance Ensemble (NYC)
Rehearsed campus and public reading – Arizona Western College
NOTE: a monologue from this play has been published by Smith & Kraus in their 2021 anthology, The Best Men’s Stage Monologues.
Matches – full length
*Winner – Oglebay Institute’s Towngate Prize (WV)
*Finalist – Reva Shiner Playwriting Contest (IN)
The Sum of Me – full-length (TYA – high school)
*Full Production – ChildsPlay, Tempe, AZ
*Full Production – UCM campus – (titled Not Waving)
*Winner –University of Central Missouri – Theatre for Young Audiences – National Playwriting Competition
*Second Place – Marilyn Hall Award, Beverly Hills Theatre Guild
*Winner – Growing Stage Theatre New Plays Festival
A Fish Story – full-length
*Staged Reading – Pegasus Theater (CA)
*Finalist (1 of 3) – McLaren Memorial Playwriting Competition (TX)
*Finalist – American Association of Community Theatre
*Semi-Finalist (1 of 12) – Neil Simon Festival New Play Contest
NOTE: a monologue from this play has been published by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, entitled, 100 Monologues from New Plays – Men (2018)
An Hour Upon the Stage (Not Waving) – full-length
*Winner – Panndora’s Box New Works Festival (CA)
*Finalist – Orange County New Play Festival
Statin Eye-Land Fairy – one-act
*Winner – Pittsburgh New Play Festival
*Winner – Geneva Theatre Guild New Play Festival
Witlacks Disorder – short one-act
*Winner – Chameleon Theatre Circle (MN)
*Winner – Lourdes University – Festival of One-Acts (OH)
Tell Me What You See – short one-act
Published in the fall issue (2020) of the Ponder Review
*Winner – “About Love” competition, Tomo Suro Players, Vancouver, CAN
Member – Playwrights Center
Member – Dramatists Guild
Member – American Association of Community Theatre (AACT)
Member – Southeast Theatre Conference (SETC)