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AWARDS AND HONORS

Southeast Missouri State University Provost Awards for Teaching Excellence – Provost Award for Promoting Engaged Learning

Holland College of Arts & Media (SEMO) Faculty Research/Creativity Award Nominee

Theatre Art Life Ten Best Documentaries About Theatre for Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

Atlanta Business Journal Best Documentaries of All Time for Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

Evening Standard’s Ten Best Arts Documentaries for Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

Esquire’s Twenty Best Documentaries of All Time for Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

Playbill’s Top Five Theater Documentaries for Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

New York Times’ Ten Best Films of 2016 for Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

Newsweek’s Favorite Documentaries of 2016 for Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

The Wrap’s Best Films of 2016 for Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

Slate’s Best Films of 2016 for Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

IndieWire’s Ten Best Queer Films & Television Shows of 2016 for Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

Official Selection – 2016 New York Film Festival for Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happen

Theater for the American Musical Prize for Kiki Baby (written with Lonny Price and Grant Sturiale).

Finalist – Final Draft Big Break Contest for the animated feature screenplay Pigeons (written with Jenny Kirlin; Top 10 selected from over 7,000 entries)

Route 66 International Film Festival – Best Debut Film, Audience Award for the film Rainbow Rabbit Reliant.

CRY HAVOC Cornerstone Award for outstanding contributions to the artistic growth of The CRY HAVOC Company, bestowed by the Board of Directors of The CRY HAVOC Company (Inaugural Recipient).

Atlantic City Cinefest – Best Dramatic Short, Best Director, Audience Award for the film Rainbow Rabbit Reliant (also awarded Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress).

Manalapan Independent Film Festival – Best Ensemble Performance for the film Rainbow Rabbit Reliant.

Winner of the Samuel French New Play Festival for the play realer than that (selected from over 1200 plays).

NYIT Awards – Nomination for Best Original Short Script of the New York 2008-2009 Theater Season for the play [pwnd].

Finalist of the Samuel French New Play Festival for the play Good Enough. (Top 40 selected from over 1200 plays).

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observer Fellowship to work with director Lonny Price on the Roundabout Theater Company’s 2007 Broadway revival of 110 in the Shade (starring Audra McDonald & John Cullum).

Herbert J. Robinson Award for Dramatic Writing for the screenplay Twice Rather Perish.

Herbert J. Robinson Award for Dramatic Writing for the play The Median Line (only two-time winner).

Davenport Foundation Fellowship to pursue graduate studies in directing at The Actors Studio Drama School.

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