FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, PRIZES, RESIDENCIES
2023 • Austrian Music-Theater Prize—Poppaea, with Michael Hersch, nominated in the Contemporary Music-theater category
2022 • Broadway World Pittsburgh best opera production (audience choice) for In a Grove, world premiere: Pittsburgh Opera
2022 • Opera America Campbell Librettist Prize
2021–2 • West Edge Opera’s Aperture Developmental Residency, Sprints 1 & 3— L’Autre Moi
2020 • Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Performance Grant for The Visitation
2019 • NYFA [New York Foundation for the Arts] Fellowship in Playwriting/Screenwriting
2019 • Mass MoCA residency for In a Grove
2018 • Virginia B. Toulmin grant for the libretto for Barrel of Laughs, Vale of Tears, an opera for all audiences, music by Julia Adolphe
2017 • NYSCA [New York State Council on the Arts] Individual Artists Commission for Sound House, , a new play
2017 • Venturous Theater Fund Venturous Capital Fund grant for Sound House
2017–18 • New Victory LabWorks Residency for The Sweetest Life, , a music-theater work
2017 • Hudson Opera House Residency for Niagara, with Bobby Previte & Daniel Fish
2017 • Mahogany Opera Group's Various Stages Residency for In a Grove, a new opera with music by Chris Cerrone
2016 • BRICLab residency, Bric House, Brooklyn, for The Sweetest Life
2015–2016 • New Georges Audrey Residency for Sound House
2015 • Map Fund grant for The Long Walk, an opera, American Lyric Theater
2015 • New Music USA grant for The Long Walk, Opera Saratoga
2015 • Opera America Audience Development Grant for The Long Walk, American Lyric Theater
2015 • Aaron Copeland Fund Supplemental Program Grant for The Long Walk, American Lyric Theater
2015 • NYSCA Individual Artists Commission for The Long Walk (libretto)
2015 • Skidmore Faculty Development Grant, research for Sound House at Goldsmith's University, London
2014–15 • Howard Foundation Fellowship in playwriting c/o Brown University, for Sound House
2014 • The Kilroys List nomination, The Secret Lives of Coats
2013 • Repertoire & Development grant for The Long Walk, commissioned by ALT, Opera America, Opera Fund
2012 • Arts Council England development grant to support 2-week workshop of Tally Ho
at London’s Roundhouse Studio
2012 • Skidmore Faculty Development Grant to support Roundhouse Tally Ho workshop in London
2011—2015 • American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development Program: Resident Artist
2011 • Playwrights Center Core Writer Alumni Fund grant, to support a reading of The Secret Lives of Coats
2011 • Skidmore Faculty Development Grant, to support a reading of The Secret Lives of Coats
2010 • Anna Sosenko Assist Trust grant, to support a reading of The Secret Lives of Coats
2010 • Resident Artist, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, The Secret Lives of Coats
2009 • Greenwall Foundation for Red Fly/Blue Bottle
2009 • Tobin Fund for Design for Red Fly/Blue Bottle
2009 • Mid-Atlantic Arts Fund for Red Fly/Blue Bottle
2008 • Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, What the Moon Saw
2008 • New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Individual Artists Theater Commission
for the libretto for Red Fly/Blue Bottle
2007 • New York State Music Fund grant for Red Fly/Blue Bottle
2007 • Howard Foundation Fellowship, finalist
2006–2009 • Playwrights Center: Core writer
2006–2009 • HERE Artists Residency Program, resident artist for Red Fly/Blue Bottle, NYC
2005 • Finalist, Humana Festival 10-minute play contest for "The Polish Doorman"
1997–2004 • New Dramatists: 7-year residency
2004 • Pew Charitable Trust Philadelphia Theater Initiative project grant for The Street of Useful Things,
Act II Theater
2004 • Joe Callaway Award: New Dramatists
2002/03 • Finalist, O'Neill Playwrights Conference & Shenandoah Playwrights Retreat,
The Street of Useful Things
2002/03 • Finalist, New Harmony and Sundance, The Hotel Carter
2001 • Finalist, O'Neill Playwrights Conference & Shenandoah Playwrights Retreat, The World Speed Carnival
2000 • Frederick Loewe Award: The Hotel Carter, Jenny Giering, composer, Joe Calarco, director
2000 • Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Playwriting: Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sewanee, TN,
2000 • Tennessee Williams Fellow: Playwright in residence, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
1999 • Jerome Fellowship Alternate
1999 • Whitfield-Cook Prize: for Eloise & Ray (New Dramatists award for best then-unproduced play)
1997–1998 • Mabou Mines Suite/Resident Artists Lab: developed The Hotel Carter, music-theater work, PS 122
1992 • Hedgebrook: Writer in residence, Washington State
1996 • New York Foundation for the Arts: Fellowship in fiction
1995 • National Endowment for the Arts: Opera/Musical Theater New American Works: Far Sea Pharisee
1993 • The Macdowell Colony: Fellow, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1992 • Hedgebrook: Writer in residence, Washington State
1992 • The Writer's Voice Open Voice & New Voice Awards for fiction, finalist
1991 • New York Foundation for the Arts: Fellowship in fiction