i write plays.

Awards

in reverse chronological order

2010
El Gouna Writers’ Residency fellow
KCACTF’s Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting (for Ching Chong Chinaman)
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 winner (for Ching Chong Chinaman)