HONORS AND AWARDS: |
IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award, 2011 |
2006 Carl Brandon Parallax Award for Mindscape, 2010 |
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Launch Pad—Fellow at NASA funded Writer’s Workshop, August 2008 |
Guest of Honor, Diversicon Science Fiction Convention, Minneapolis, MN, August 2007 |
James Tiptree Award Finalist for Mindscape, 2007 |
Philip K. Dick Award Finalist for Mindscape, 2007 |
Older Writers Grant, Speculative Literature Foundation for Exploding in Slow Motion excerpt, 2005 |
Dana Writer Awards, Finalist in Fiction for Exploding in Slow Motion excerpt, 2004, 2008 |
Dana Writer Awards, Finalist in Poetry for Archangels of Funk poems, 2004 |
Saul O. Sidore Memorial Foundation Grant, 2004 |
Blue Mountain Center, Writing Residency, 2004, 2007 |
Heideman Award for short plays (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Finalist for Soldier in the Closet, 2003 |
Fellowship Grant (Playwriting, Archangels of Funk) Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), 2003 |
Puffin Foundation Grant for Archangels of Funk and Stage Fright 2003 |
New England Foundation for The Arts Meet The Composer Grant (With Pan Morigan Welland) 2003 |
Rhode Island Arts Foundation Grant with Tony Vacca, 2002 |
Finalist Grant (Playwriting, Hummingbird Flying Backwards) Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), 2001 |
Art Angels Grant, Pregnant and Parenting Teen Project, 2001 |
Fund For Women Artists Community Arts Grant, 2000, 2001 |
New Century Writer Awards, Finalist in Fiction for Mindscape excerpt, 1999 |
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant for New Work with the Fund For Women Artists, 1999 |
Harnish Fellowship, Smith College, 1998-99, 2001-2002, 2005-2006, 2008-2009 |
Collaborative (Theatre/Music) Grant with Massamba Diop, Inroads, Arts International, Ford Foundation, 1996 |
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Theatre Grant with Chrysalis Theatre 1995-96, 1996-97 |
Springfield, Holyoke, Greenfield Arts Council Grants, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 |
Community Foundation of Western MA Grant with Chrysalis, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999 |
MCC Collaborative Assistance Grant — Chrysalis and Northern Educational Service Of Springfield, 1994, 1995 |
MCC Collaborative Assistance Grant — Chrysalis and StageWest 1993 |
MCC Organizational Support Grant with Chrysalis Theatre, 1992-2010 |
Smith Design Award, 1991-1992 |
National Endowment for the Arts Grant To Playwrights, (Signs of Life) 1988 |
Finalist Grant (Poetry) Massachusetts Artists Foundation, 1988 |
New England Foundation for The Arts Meet The Composer Grants (With Tony Vacca) 1984-89, 1995, 1996 |
Semi-finalist (Poetry) Massachusetts Artists Foundation, 1987 |
Northampton Arts Council Grants (Playwriting, Directing) 1983-87, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001-04, 2009, 2011 |
Fusion/Fission Grant, National Endowment for the Arts and Rockefeller Foundation, 1986 |
Merit Aid Grants, Massachusetts Council on the Arts & Humanities with Chrysalis Theatre, 1982-1991 |
Master Artist-in-Residence, MA Artists Foundation, 1983 |
Aid to Faculty Scholarship Grant, Smith College, 1980, 1991-2008 |
Winner, the Women’s Theatre of Seattle Women’s Playwright Festival, 1980 |
Artist-in-Residence Grant, MA Artists Foundation, 1979-80 |
Finalist (Playwriting) MA Artists Foundation 1978, 1986 |
Shubert Fellowship, 1975-76, 1976-77 |
Denis Johnston Award for Playwriting, Smith College, 1974 |