Awards & Honors

2023

Veteran Rep’s National Playwriting Competition, Winner | TECTONIC MELANGE

Alleyway Theatre’s Mainstage Season | THE ALEPH COMPLEX

Winnipeg Jewish Theatre’s Mainstage Season | A PICKLE

Kitchen Dog Theatre’s New Works Festival, Finalist | GREAT WHITE

National Playwrights Conference, Semi-Finalist | GREAT WHITE

American Blues Theatre’s Blue Ink Award, Semi-Finalist | GREAT WHITE

 

2022 

The Playwrights’ Center Ruth Easton Series | DRIVE

Mirrorbox Theatre’s Mainstage Season | DRIVE

American Blues Theatre’s Blue Ink Award, Featured Finalist | PRESERVATION

Woodward Newman Drama Award, Finalist | THE CALM BEFORE

Veteran Rep’s Playwriting Competition, Finalist | THE CALM BEFORE

National Playwrights Conference, Semi-Finalist | THE CALM BEFORE

Spreckels Performing Arts Center Season | ATLAS, THE LONELY GIBBON

 

2021

Maxim Mazumdar Award | THE ALEPH COMPLEX
National Playwrights’ Conference, Finalist | ATLAS, THE LONELY GIBBON
Clamour Theatre’s Clay & Water Retreat | ATLAS, THE LONELY GIBBON
Seven Devil Playwrights’ Conference, Finalist | ATLAS, THE LONELY GIBBON
Centenary Stage Women’s Playwright Series | ATLAS, THE LONELY GIBBON
Neukom Literary Arts Award, Finalist | ATLAS, THE LONELY GIBBON
2021- 2024 Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center
Northern Stage’s New Works Now Festival | DRIVE
Blank Theatre’s Living Room Series | GREAT WHITE
Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company’s Season | A PICKLE
Jewish Theatre of Bloomington’s Season | A PICKLE

2020

Dartmouth’s VoxFest | DRIVE
Neukom Literary Arts Award for Playwriting | DRIVE
Centenary Stage Women’s Playwright Series | DRIVE
Seven Devil Playwrights’ Conference, Finalist | DRIVE
HBMG Foundation’s National Playwrights’ Winter Retreat
Amphibian Stages’ Mainstage Season | HANS & SOPHIE
SPACE On Ryder Farm Working Farm Group, Finalist
Marblehouse Project Residency, Accepted | ATLAS, THE LONELY GIBBON
Outstanding New Play, Dallas Theater Critics Forum Awards | HANS & SOPHIE
Austin Film Festival’s Drama Teleplay Pilot Award, Quarterfinalist | THE WRONG APPROACH

2019

Civilians’ FINDINGS Series | DRIVE
Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse Monday Night Special | DRIVE
Women in the Arts & Media Collaboration Award | PRESERVATION
Jewish Ensemble Theatre’s New Play Festival Winner | PRESERVATION
Kitchen Dog Theatre’s 2019 New Works Festival, Finalist | PRESERVATION
Capital Rep’s Next Act! New Play Summit | THE CALM BEFORE
Blank Theatre’s Living Room Series | THE CALM BEFORE
Amphibian Stage Productions’ Metamorphosis Series | HANS & SOPHIE
Featured in The Best Men’s Monologues from New Plays | BOMBER’S MOON, PRESERVATION
Featured in The Best Women’s Monologues from New Plays | BOMBER’S MOON
Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize (short-listed) | DRIVE
Nora Playouse’s Salon Series | GREAT WHITE

2018

Civilians 2018-2019 R&D Group | DRIVE
Theatre Ariel’s 2018-2019 Salon Series | THE MAN IN THE SUKKAH
Woodward/Newman Drama Award, Finalist | PRESERVATION
Forward Flux New American Play Commission, Finalist | THE CALM BEFORE
Williams Street Rep’s 2018-2019 Mainstage Season | BOMBER’S MOON
Babes with Blade’s Fighting Words Series | JENGA
Alliance of Jewish Theatres’s 2018 Conference Theatremacher Fellowship
Capital Stage Company’s Playwrights Revolution Series | GREAT WHITE
O’Neill Theatre Center’s National Playwright Conference Observership
Swandive Theatre’s Veggie Stock Series | THE ALEPH COMPLEX
SPACE on Ryder Farm Creative Residency, Finalist | HANS & SOPHIE

2017

Minneapolis’ 2017 BroadwayWorld Regional Award for Best Original/New Work | A PICKLE
Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow | GREAT WHITE
Fall Playwright-in-Residence, William Inge Center for the Arts | PRESERVATION
Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women (2nd Place Award) | GREAT WHITE
Best of Fringe Encore Performance | A PICKLE
Twin Cities Arts Reader Best of Fringe | A PICKLE
Circle City New Play Festival | TECTONIC MÉLANGE
Premiere Stages Play Festival (semi-finalist) | TECTONIC MÉLANGE

2016

Honorable Mention, The Relentless Award | GREAT WHITE
TheatreSquared’s Arkansas New Play Festival | TECTONIC MÉLANGE
Kernodle New Play Award | TECTONIC MÉLANGE
Ensemble Studio Theater’s First Light Festival | TECTONIC MÉLANGE
JAW Fest (finalist), Portland Center Stage | TECTONIC MÉLANGE
Great Plains Theater Conference | GREAT WHITE
Arts Kibbutz Residency with Jewish Plays Project | AND YOU SHALL BE A BLESSING
Dorit & Gerald Paul Artist in Residence at Indiana University | AND YOU SHALL BE A BLESSSING
American Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Playwriting Award (finalist)| TECTONIC MÉLANGE

2015

Jewish Ensemble Theater’s New Play Competition | THE MAN IN THE SUKKAH
Cutting Ball Theater’s RISK is This (finalist) | FREEZEFRAME
SPACE on Ryder Farm Residency | TECTONIC MÉLANGE
Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Sewanee | THE MAN IN THE SUKKAH
The Bay Area Playwrights Festival (finalist) | GREAT WHITE
Kilroy’s 2015 List (honorable mention) | THE ALEPH COMPLEX

2014

Ensemble Studio Theater / Sloan Commission | TECTONIC MÉLANGE
Heideman Award (finalist) | POST
Cutting Ball Theater’s RISK is This (finalist) | THE MAN IN THE SUKKAH
PlayPenn (finalist) | THE MAN IN THE SUKKAH
Jerome Fellowship | THE MAN IN THE SUKKAH
Red Theater’s National Competition (runner-up) | THE ALEPH COMPLEX

2013

The New Harmony Project  | THE ALEPH COMPLEX
Jerome Fellowship | THE ALEPH COMPLEX
Woodward/Newman Drama Award (finalist), Bloomington Playwrights Project | THE ALEPH COMPLEX
City Theater’s National Short Play Competition (finalist) | THE STARFIRE DANCE
Jewish Plays Project’s OPEN: Festival of New Jewish Theater | THE MAN IN THE SUKKAH
Kentucky Women Writers’ Conference (finalist) | THE MAN IN THE SUKKAH

2012

The Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award | THE MAN IN THE SUKKAH
University of Iowa’s Richard Maibaum Playwriting Award | THE MAN IN THE SUKKAH
Metrowest JCC National Jewish Playwriting Contest (finalist) | THE MAN IN THE SUKKAH
Phoenix Theater’s Hormel New Works Festival (finalist) |  PORTMANTEAUX

2011

The Great Plains Theater Conference |  PORTMANTEAUX
John Gassner Award, Stony Brook University (finalist) | PORTMANTEAUX

2010

Iowa Arts Fellowship, University of Iowa | PORTMANTEAUX, FREEZEFRAME

2009

WordBRIDGE Playwrights’ Laboratory | PORTMANTEAUX