Member: Dramatists Guild of America since 2011


Nominated for and accepted to the Dramatists Guild Chicago Intensive in September 2011


Invited to participate as a Playwright in the Chicago One-Minute Play Festival at Victory Gardens


Chicago Union League Civic and Arts Foundation

Emerging Playwright Award (2009)

for Beatrice & Beau


Sketchbook 9 Audience Choice Award (2009)

for Beatrice & Beau                            


Sketchbook 9

Judges’ Choice

Award (2009)

for Beatrice & Beau

3rd Place


Chicago Women’s Theatre Alliance

1-Page Play-Off (2007) for happy

2nd Place


Gus and Leanne Weille Playwrighting Award (2004)         for Kissing the Fat Girl


Gus and Leanne Weille Playwrighting Award   (2005)         for A Place to Land


UTA Award for Best Special Event  (2005) for A Place to Land


UTA Award for Best Sound Design (2005)         for Ruhl’s Eurydice

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