in reverse chronological order
2011
PlayPenn Conference playwright (for A Man, his Wife, and his Hat)
NETC’s John Gassner Playwriting Competition winner (for in a word)
Christopher Brian Wolk Award finalist (for A Man, his Wife, and his Hat)
KCACTF’s Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award winner (for in a word)
KCACTF’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award winner (for in a word)
Leah Ryan Prize for Emerging Women Playwrights finalist (for in a word)
Seven Devils Playwrights Conference finalist (for A Man, his Wife, and his Hat)
Woodward/Newman Drama Award finalist (for in a word)
The Center for Research in Language’s E.A. Bates Graduate Student Award recipient
IICAS Student Research Travel Grant recipient (for Mu Performing Arts commission)
Reverie Productions’ Next Generation Playwrights Contest semifinalist (for in a word)
Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice Workshop fellow (for Samsara)
Coe College Playwriting Festival winner (for A Man, his Wife, and his Hat)
PlayGround New Play Production Fund winner (with Impact Theatre for Crevice)
2010
Kennedy Center Heritage Project commission
San Francisco Foundation Matching Artist Commission grantee (with AlterTheater for A Man, his Wife, and his Hat)
MAP Fund grantee (with Mu Performing Arts)
Hangar Theater Lab Company playwright-in-residence (for in a word)
Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival finalist (for CAUTION)
O’Neill Conference visiting fellow
Wasserstein Prize nominee
El Gouna Writers’ Residency fellow
KCACTF’s Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting (for Ching Chong Chinaman)
New Harmony Project semifinalist (for Crevice)
Theater Masters National MFA Playwrights Festival (for The Oldest Living Resident)
2009
Theatre Bay Area New Works Fund commission (with AlterTheater)
Humana Festival Heideman Award finalist (for Zachary Zwillinger Eats People)
Wasserstein Prize finalist
Jane Chambers Playwriting Award honorable mention (for Ching Chong Chinaman)
Bay Area Playwrights Festival BASH commission (for Our Peculiar Institution)
PONY Fellowship finalist
Jerome Fellowship finalist (selected)
American Antiquarian Society – Robert and Charlotte Baron fellow
Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers fellow
Public Theater Emerging Writers Group member
MacDowell Colony fellow
2008
Ars Nova Play Group finalist
Youngblood finalist
Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant recipient
Djerassi Resident Artists Program alternate
Dramatists Guild fellow
Princess Grace Award finalist (for Ching Chong Chinaman)
Jerome Fellowship finalist
New York Mills Arts Retreat writer-in-residence
Edward F. Albee Foundation fellow
Byrdcliffe Artist Colony writer-in-residence
PlayGround June Anne Baker Prize winner/commission (for Crevice)
2007
Humana Festival Heideman Award finalist (for CAUTION)
Theatre Bay Area CA$H grant recipient
Ford Foundation Emerging Writers of Color fellow
Kumu Kahua Theatre Pacific Rim Prize winner (for Ching Chong Chinaman)
Yale Playwrights Festival participant (for Ching Chong Chinaman)
