awards + honors
Sony Pictures Television Diverse Writers Fellow, 2021
Sony Pictures Teaching Artist Award for Innovative Curriculum, 2023
Dramatists Guild Fellow 2015-2016
Featured Playwright and Company Member HERE
Featured Playwright HERE
Zoetrope Grand Prize for Screenplay (Caroline’s Wedding), 2018
Princess Grace Award Runner Up (Boat People)
The Lily’s Lorraine Hansberry Award, 2021
Atlantic Theatre New Play Commission, 2021
Alfred P. Sloan New Play Commission (The Devil’s Salt)
Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award (Healing Roots)
The Kilroys List Honorable Mention (Deux Femmes on the Edge de la Revolution and Boat People)
Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist, 2022
Winner of the 41st annual Samuel French OOB Festival 2016
Afro-Atlantic Playwrights Residency, Camargo Foundation, 2018
NEA Grant recipient 2017
NYSCA Individual Artist Award, 2021
Playwright in Residence, Sacatar Institute, 2019
Djerassi Writer in Residence 2017