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 House, Divided
 La Tempestad
 The Ballad of John Wesley Reed
 Girl Science
 The Allure of Oriental Wisdom
 Memorial Day (formerly Varia)
 Pride of the Lion
 The Dostoyevsky Man


 Monica for Chanukah
 Angie and Arnie Sanguine
 Edward and Ellie Supine
 The Lion Eats His Lunch
 The Lion in His Lair
 The Lion Leaves His Mark
 Prayers


 But Who's Counting?
 Emma Goldman Imagines the Millenium


 Just Before the War Between the Plates
 I Can Handle That


 Talking  with Lee Blessing

...with Tom Coash
...with Mary Fengar Gail
...with Richard Kalinowsky
...with Jamie Pachino
...with David Rambo
...with Jason Sherman
...with Naomi Wallace
...with Tom Gibbons
...with Dick Goldberg

  Dramaturgy in a Time of Terror
  The Traveling Dramaturg


2006, Awarded Pennsylvania Council for the Arts fellowship in playwriting.

2006, Awarded a commission to research and write a new play, House, Divided, by the New Jewish Theater Commissioning project of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.

2006, Finalist, Fulton Opera House New Play Competition, for Girl Science.

2005, Alfred E. Sloan/Ensemble Studio Theater Rewrite Commission for Girl Science.

2004, Awarded Pennsylvania Council for the Arts fellowship in playwriting.

2004, Finalist, Ecodrama Playwright Festival, Earth Matters on Stage Festival, Humboldt State University, Humboldt, CA, for Girl Science.

2003, Winner, Eileen Heckert Award for Plays about seniors, sponsored by the Robert Lee and Jerome Lawrence Institute of the Ohio State University, for Memorial Day.

2000, Special Opportunity Stipend, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, to travel to Denver to appear on a panel on new play development.

2000, Selected as dramaturg to work with Playwright Joseph Sorentino, winner of the Artist as Catalyst Grant, to create a play from audio tapes of interviews with homeless people gathered over the last decade.

1999, Honorable Mention, Crossing Borders 1999: Approaching Millennium Contest, Wharf Rat Productions, for ButWho's Counting

1999, Honorable Mention, Nantucket Short Play Competition and Festival, for Just Before the War Between the Plates.

1999, Finalist, Drury College Short Plays Competition, for Edward and Ellie Supine.

1998, Awarded Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting.

1998, Winner, Pennsylvania Playwriting Contest, sponsored by the Theater Association of PA., for Varia.

1998, Finalist, Mill Mountain Theater New Play Competition, Roanoke, VA, for Varia

1998, Finalist, Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition, Alleyway Theater, Buffalo, NY, for Varia.

1998, Finalist, Charlotte North Carolina Repertory Company New Play Competition, for Varia.

1995-1997, Classroom Close-Up, New Jersey has won over 20 local, regional, and national awards from organizations, festivals, and broadcast stations including the New Jersey Cable Television Network CAPE Award as Best Program of 1995, and awards from the US International Film and Video Festival, New Jersey Press Women, the Association of State Education Editors, the National Federation of Press Women, and the Public Relations Council of the National Education Association.

1995, Awarded Pennsylvania Council for the Arts fellowship in Playwriting.

1993, Semi-finalist in the "Set in Philadelphia" screenplay competition sponsored by the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema for Manayunk.

1993, Winner, Love Creek Short Play Festival, for Prayers.

1993, Semi-finalist in the Beverly Hills Theater Guild/Julie Harris Playwright Competition, for The Dostoyevsky Man.

1993, Semi-finalist in the Cleveland Public Theater Festival of New Plays, for The Dostoyevsky Man.

1992, The American Scene Award, from the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists "for productions which, through non-stereotypical presentation of women, minorities, and seniors, progressively portray the diversity of the American Scene."

1991-1992, Daytime EMMY Award in screenwriting, for "contributing to the program Rugrats".

1986, Cine Golden Eagle, for scriptwriting, for The Intricate Cell.

1987, Cine Golden Eagle, for scriptwriting, for Let the Doors be of Iron.

1986, Award for Creative Excellence, from the US Industrial Film Festival, for The Intricate Cell.

1985, Regional Student Academy Award, fiction film category, for Learning the Changes,.

1983 Semi-finalist in the Nissan-Focus Student Screenwriting Competition for Paper Work.


 

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