Harrison David Rivers

Rivers was born in Manhattan, Kansas. He attended Manhattan High School, where he was active in the music and theater programs. He earned a B.A. in American Studies and Dance & Drama from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio (2004) and an M.F.A in Playwriting from the Columbia University School of Arts in New York City (2009), where he received the John Golden Playwriting Award.

While still a student at Columbia, Rivers was selected to participate in the inaugural "24 Hour Plays: Old Vic New Voices" event at the Atlantic Theatre.{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/kevin-spacey-hosts-nyc-debut-of-24-hour-plays-old-vic-new-voices-july-2-com-141915|title=Kevin Spacey Hosts NYC Debut of '24 Hour Plays: Old Vic New Voices' July 2 |website=Playbill|date=2 July 2007|language=en|access-date=2017-12-24}} He also wrote a short play for The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway (2009) called "And It Seems To Me A Very Good Sign".{{Cite news|url=https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/24-hour-plays-the-writing-hours/#more-50975|title=24 Hour Plays: The Writing Hours|last=McElroy|first=Steven|work=ArtsBeat|date=9 November 2009 |access-date=2017-12-24|language=en}} His cast included Sam Rockwell, Naomi Watts, John Krasinski and Amber Tamblyn.{{Cite news|url=https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/24-hour-plays-assignments-and-first-rehearsals/#more-51127|title=24 Hour Plays: Assignments and First Rehearsals|last=McElroy|first=Steven|work=ArtsBeat|date=9 November 2009 |access-date=2017-12-24|language=en}}

After graduation, Rivers received an Emerging Artist of Color Fellowship from New York Theatre Workshop and a Van Lier Fellowship from New Dramatists.

Rivers was a member of P73's Interstate 73 Writers' Group and the Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater (2011–13).{{Cite news|url=http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/02-2012/boo-killebrew-harrison-david-rivers-among-playwrig_49701.html|title=Boo Killebrew, Harrison David Rivers Among Playwrights in Public Theater's 2012-13 Emerging Writers Group|work=TheaterMania.com|access-date=2017-12-24}}

Rivers' play "When Last We Flew" was selected for the Sundance Theatre Lab in 2010. The play went on to be produced in the New York International Fringe Festival where it won awards for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Performance (for Rory Lipede).{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Larkin-Lipede-Reese-to-Star-in-WHEN-LAST-WE-FLEW-At-The-Lortel-81829-20100828|title=When Last We Flew Closes At The Lortel 8/29|work=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en}} The play was invited to be a part of the Fringe Encore Series. "When Last We Flew" also won the 2011 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theatre: Off Off Broadway.{{Cite news|url=https://www.glaad.org/mediaawards/22/ny|title=2011 GLAAD Media Awards - New York|date=2011-09-09|work=GLAAD|access-date=2017-12-24}}

The Movement Theatre Company presented Rivers' play Look Upon Our Lowliness, directed by David Mendizábal, at the Harlem School for the Arts Theatre, in April 2013. It was subsequently developed at New York Theatre Workshop's Dartmouth residency in the summer of 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://hop.dartmouth.edu/events/look-upon-our-lowliness|title=Look Upon Our Lowliness |website=hop.dartmouth.edu|date=4 June 2019|access-date=2019-12-05}}

In 2014, Rivers was awarded a Jerome Many Voices Fellowship from the Playwrights' Center{{Cite news|url=https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/playwrights-center-announces-new-awardee/|title=Playwrights' Center adds talent for their 2014-15 season|work=Twin Cities Daily Planet|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en-US}} and relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota. He subsequently received a McKnight Fellowship for Playwrights (2015–16){{Cite news|url=https://pwcenter.org/news/meet-2015-16-mcknight-fellows-playwriting|title=Meet the 2015-16 McKnight Fellows in Playwriting|date=2015-04-25|work=Playwrights' Center|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en}} and was a Core Writer at the Playwrights' Center from 2016-2019. He currently serves on the Playwrights' Center's Board of Directors.{{Cite news|url=https://pwcenter.org/staff-and-board|title=STAFF|date=2014-07-23|work=Playwrights' Center|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en}}

Rivers received New York Stage & Film's 2015 Founder's Award and, in 2016, he was the Playwright-in-Residence at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.{{Cite news|url=http://stage-directions.com/theatre-buzz/8231-williamstown-theatre-festival-names-play-award-winners.html|title=Williamstown Theatre Festival Names Play Award-Winners - Stage Directions|last=Coakley|first=Jacob|date=2016-03-14|work=Stage Directions|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en-gb|archive-date=2017-12-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225035354/http://stage-directions.com/theatre-buzz/8231-williamstown-theatre-festival-names-play-award-winners.html|url-status=dead}}

In 2017, Rivers' play Sweet from National Black Theatre received four nominations at the 45th AUDELCO Awards{{Cite news|url=http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2017/oct/19/nominations-announced-45th-audelco-awards/|title=Nominations announced for 45th AUDELCO Awards|access-date=2017-11-06}} including: Dramatic Production of the Year, Outstanding Ensemble Performance, Director/Dramatic Production and Playwright. The 45th annual Vivian Robinson AUDELCO Awards recognizes excellence in Black Theatre.

His play Where Storms are Born, produced by the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2017,{{Cite web|title=Where Storms Are Born|url=https://wtfestival.org/main-events/where-storms-are-born/|access-date=2020-08-29|website=Williamstown Theatre Festival|language=en-US}} won an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award (2017){{Cite web|url=http://www.tcg.org/EdgertonFoundation/NewPlayAwards/2017Awards.aspx|title=TCG: Theatre Communications Group > Edgerton Foundation > New Play Awards > 2017 Awards|website=www.tcg.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-22}} and was nominated for Outstanding New Play at the 2017 Berkshire Theatre Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://www.berkshirefinearts.com/11-06-2017_berkshire-theatre-awards-2017.htm|title=Berkshire Theatre Awards 2017 - Berkshire Fine Arts|last=Giuliano|first=Charles|website=www.berkshirefinearts.com|access-date=2019-06-02}}

Also in 2017, Rivers' play This Bitter Earth premiered at New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco. In 2018, it was produced at Penumbra Theater in Saint Paul, where it won a MN Theater Award for Exceptional New Work{{Cite web|url=https://twincitiesarts.com/2018/09/25/news-2018-mn-theater-award-honorees/|title=News: The 2018 MN Theater Award Honorees – Twin Cities Arts Reader|website=twincitiesarts.com|access-date=2019-06-02}} and a Lavender Magazine award for Outstanding New Playwriting,{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/lavendermagazine/docs/lavender615|title=Lavender Magazine 615|website=Issuu|date=20 December 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-06-04}} and at About Face Theatre in Chicago,{{Cite web|url=http://aboutfacetheatre.com/about-aft/this-bitter-earth/|title=This Bitter Earth|website=aboutfacetheatre.com|access-date=2019-06-04}} where it was a Jeff Award Recommended Show.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jeffawards.org/jeffplays/bitter-earth-2019|title=Jeff Recommended Show|website=www.jeffawards.org|access-date=2019-06-04}} It was subsequently produced at Washington, D.C.'s Theater Alliance in 2020.{{Cite web|title=This Bitter Earth – Theater Alliance|url=https://theateralliance.com/portfolio/this-bitter-earth/|access-date=2020-08-29|language=en-US}}

Rivers also wrote the book for the musical Five Points, with lyrics by Douglas Lyons and music by Douglas Lyons and Ethan Pakchar, which received its world premiere at Theater Latté Da, in Minneapolis, in 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/minneapolis/article/BWW-Feature-Upcoming-World-Premiere-of-FIVE-POINTS-at-Theater-Latte-Da-20180330|title=BWW Feature: Upcoming World Premiere of Five Points at Theater Latte Da|last=Bovard|first=Karen|website=BroadwayWorld.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-04}} The extended,{{Cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/minneapolis/article/Theater-Latt-Da-Extends-Performances-Of-FIVE-POINTS-20180412|title=Theater Latté Da Extends Performances Of Five Points|website=BroadwayWorld.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-04}} sold-out{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/theaterlatteda/status/987397389051981825|title=Five Points has officially sold out. Thank you to all who have come out to see this world premiere musical. #fivepointsTLD #worldpremiere #newmusical #soldoutpic.twitter.com/wkoESHhGuO|date=2018-04-20|website=@theaterlatteda|language=en|access-date=2019-06-04}} production received a MN Theater Award for Exceptional New Work and the BroadwayWorld Minneapolis Award for Outstanding Original/New Work,{{Cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/minneapolis/article/Winners-Announced-for-the-2018-BroadwayWorld-Minneapolis-Awards-20190109|title=Winners Announced for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Minneapolis Awards|website=BroadwayWorld.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-04}} as well as Lavender Magazine awards for Best New Musical Score and Lyrics and Outstanding New Playwriting (for Rivers' book) and was included on MinnPost's year-end Best Of list for 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.minnpost.com/artscape/2018/12/25-of-the-best-things-we-saw-and-heard-in-2018-a-year-in-the-arts/|title=25 of the best things we saw and heard in 2018: A year in the arts|date=2018-12-21|website=MinnPost|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-04}} In 2019, Tony Award-winning choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler joined the creative team as the show's director and choreographer.{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/hamiltons-andy-blankenbuehler-will-direct-and-choreograph-new-musical-five-points|title=Hamilton's Andy Blankenbuehler Will Direct and Choreograph New Musical Five Points|last=Gans|first=Andrew|date=June 13, 2019|website=Playbill|language=en|access-date=2019-12-05}} Blankenbuehler directed a sold-out concert staging of the show at Feinstein's/54 Below in New York City on September 16, 2019.

Rivers' play the bandaged place won the 2018 Relentless Award, a prize created in honor of the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, and was part of New York Stage & Film's 2019 Powerhouse season at Vassar College.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorkstageandfilm.org/pht19|title=Powerhouse 2019|website=nysaf|language=en|access-date=2019-06-02}}

During the 2018-19 school year, Rivers was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Drama at Kenyon College.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kenyon.edu/directories/campus-directory/biography/harry-rivers/|title=Harrison David Rivers|website=Kenyon College|accessdate=2018-12-13}}

In May and June 2019, Rivers' play To Let Go & Fall received its world premiere production at Theater Latté Da.{{Cite web|url=https://www.twincities.com/2018/05/15/3055203/|title=Latte Da's season has VocalEssence collaboration, 'Once,' 'All is Calm'|date=2018-05-16|website=Twin Cities|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-04}}

Rivers wrote the libretto for the second part of the musical Broadbend, Arkansas. The libretto for the first part of the show is by Ellen Fitzhugh and music & additional lyrics were written by Ted Shen. The show received its world premiere in the fall of 2019 at The Duke on 42nd Street in New York City in a co-production of Transport Group and the Public Theater.{{Cite web|url=http://transportgroup.org/project/broadbend-arkansas/|title=Broadbend, Arkansas|last=Oren|first=Hannah|date=2019-06-21|website=Transport Group Theatre Company|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-05}} The production appeared on Times Square Chronicles'{{Cite web|title=The Best of 2019 Theatre – Times Square Chronicles|date=27 December 2019 |url=https://t2conline.com/the-best-of-2019-theatre/|access-date=2020-08-29|language=en-US}} and The Broadway Blog's "Best of 2019" lists, was named one of NewNowNext's "5 New Musicals in NYC to Be Thankful For",{{Cite web|first=Brandon|last=Voss|date=2009-11-16|title=5 New Musicals in NYC to Be Thankful For|url=http://www.newnownext.com/5-new-musicals-nyc-thanksgiving-off-broadway/11/2019/|access-date=2020-08-29|website=LOGO News}} and was designated by AMNY as an "Off-Broadway show worth seeing".{{Cite web|last=Windman|first=Matt|date=2019-11-11|title=10 Off-Broadway shows worth seeing this holiday season|url=https://www.amny.com/entertainment/10-off-broadway-shows-worth-seeing-this-holiday-season/|access-date=2020-08-29|website=amNewYork|language=en-US}} It was nominated for three Antonyo Awards (Danyel Fulton for Best Actor in a Musical Off-Broadway, Shen for Best Score and Rivers for Best Book),{{Cite web|title=Inaugural Antonyo Award Nominations Announced, Celebrating the Best of Black Broadway and Off-Broadway Season|url=https://www.onstageblog.com/onstage-blog-news/2020/6/10/inaugural-antonyo-award-nominations-announced|access-date=2020-08-29|website=OnStage Blog|date=10 June 2020 |language=en-US}} and was cited by Times Square Chronicles for Best New Off-Broadway Musical, Outstanding Book of a Musical, Outstanding Score, and Best Orchestrations.{{Cite web|title=T2C's List For the Best of Theatre for the 2019/ 2020 Season – Times Square Chronicles|date=5 June 2020 |url=https://t2conline.com/t2cs-list-for-the-best-of-theatre-for-the-2019-2020-season/|access-date=2020-08-29|language=en-US}} It streamed online during the summer of 2020.{{Cite web|date=2020-07-13|title=Broadbend, Arkansas Streaming|url=http://transportgroup.org/broadbend-streaming/|access-date=2020-08-29|website=Transport Group Theatre Company|language=en-US}}

Rivers was the 2019–2020 Rudolph William Rosati Visiting Writer at Duke University.{{Cite web|date=2015-04-03|title=The Rudolph William Rosati Visiting Writer Program|url=https://library.duke.edu/research/grants-and-fellowships/rosati|access-date=2020-02-05|website=library.duke.edu|language=en}}

In May 2020, Theater Latté Da announced that Rivers would work on two projects as part of its Next Up laboratory series being held in lieu of a 2020-21 season. Rivers and composer Ted Shen were commissioned to write a third part to their musical Broadbend, Arkansas, and Rivers was commissioned to work on "a new piece about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 alongside the 1927 premiere of the Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein and Edna Ferber's musical, Showboat".{{Cite web|title=Next Up|url=http://www.latteda.org/next-up|access-date=2020-08-29|website=Theater Latté Da|language=en-US}}

In the fall of 2020, Rivers was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater at Macalester College.{{Cite web|title=Harrison David Rivers - Macalester College|url=https://www.macalester.edu/theater-and-dance/facultystaff/harrison-david-rivers/|access-date=2020-08-29|language=en-US}}

An then-untitled project{{Update inline |date=April 2024 }} was part of Theaterworks Hartford's 2020-21 season,{{Cite web|title=TheaterWorks Hartford Announces 2020/21 Season|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/connecticut/article/TheaterWorks-Hartford-Announces-202021-Season-20200825|access-date=2020-08-29|website=BroadwayWorld.com|language=en}} and Rivers is under commission to write plays for Yale Repertory Theatre, Penumbra Theatre, History Theatre, Trademark Theater, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.harrisondavidrivers.com/s/Harrison-Rivers-Resume_11-12-19.pdf|title=Harrison David Rivers Resume|last=|first=|date=|website=Harrison David Rivers|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=December 5, 2019}}

His 2023 work the bandaged place was shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Drama.{{cite web |url=https://www.them.us/story/lambda-literary-awards-2024-shortlist-announcement |title=Announcing the Finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards |work=them. |date=2024-03-27 |access-date=2024-04-05 }}

• the bandaged place ([https://www.newyorkstageandfilm.org/2019powerhouse/ New York Stage & Film]{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }})
• To Let Go & Fall (Theater Latté Da)
• This Bitter Earth (Penumbra Theatre,{{Cite news|url=https://www.twincities.com/2017/04/30/penumbra-announces-season/|title=Penumbra Theatre has new works, return of powerful solo performer|date=2017-04-30|work=Twin Cities|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en-US}} New Conservatory Theatre,{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/san-francisco/article/New-Conservatory-Theatre-Center-to-Premiere-of-THIS-BITTER-EARTH-This-Fall-20170712|title=New Conservatory Theatre Center to Premiere of This Bitter Earth This Fall|work=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en}} [http://aboutfacetheatre.com/ About Face Theatre]{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-ent-about-face-theatre-2018-19-season-announcement-20180710-story.html|title=About Face Theatre sets 2018-19 season with two Chicago premieres and a world premiere|last=Hawbaker|first=KT|date=2018-07-10|work=Chicago Tribune|accessdate=2018-12-13}})
• Only You Can Prevent Wildfires ([http://www.ricochetcollective.com/ Ricochet Collective]{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/Meryl-Jones-Williams-to-Lead-ONLY-YOU-CAN-PREVENT-WILDFIRES-at-Teatro-Circulo-Cast-Announced-20170824|title=Meryl Jones Williams to Lead Only You Can Prevent Wildfires at Teatro Circulo; Cast Announced!|work=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en}})
• A Crack in the Sky [with Ahmed Ismail Yusef] ([http://www.historytheatre.com/ History Theatre]{{Cite web|url=http://www.historytheatre.com/2017-2018/crack-in-the-sky|title=A Crack in the Sky|website=www.historytheatre.com|language=en|access-date=2017-12-24}})
• Where Storms are Born (Williamstown Theatre Festival{{Cite web|url=http://wtfestival.org/main-events/where-storms-are-born/|title=Where Storms Are Born|website=wtfestival.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-24}})
• And She Would Stand Like This ([https://www.themovementtheatrecompany.org/ The Movement Theatre Company]{{Cite news|url=http://thebroadwayblog.com/and-she-would-stand-like-this/|title=Proud and Tall: 'And She Would Stand Like This'|work=The BroadwayBlog|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-12-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225035546/http://thebroadwayblog.com/and-she-would-stand-like-this/|url-status=dead}})
• Sweet (National Black Theatre{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationalblacktheatre.org/48th-season|title=The National Black Theatre|website=The National Black Theatre|access-date=2017-12-24|archive-date=2017-12-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225035558/http://www.nationalblacktheatre.org/48th-season|url-status=dead}})
• And All the Dead Lie Down ([http://www.convergence-continuum.org/ convergence-continuum]{{Cite web|url=http://www.convergence-continuum.org/project-06|title=convergence-continuum|website=convergence-continuum|access-date=2017-12-24|archive-date=2017-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226020650/http://www.convergence-continuum.org/project-06|url-status=dead}})
• Look Upon Our Lowliness [with [http://www.davidmendizabal.com/ David Mendizábal]] (The Movement Theatre Company{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/The-Movement-Theatre-Company-Presents-LOOK-UPON-OUR-LOWLINESS-44-20-20130403|title=The Movement Theatre Company Presents Look Upon Our Lowliness, Now thru 4/20|work=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en}})
• When Last We Flew ([https://www.theatrelabrva.org/ TheatreLAB],{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/norfolk/article/TheatreLAB-to-Present-Harrison-David-Rivers-WHEN-LAST-WE-FLEW-20150326|title=TheatreLAB to Present Harrison David Rivers' When Last We Flew|work=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en}} [http://diversionary.org/ Diversionary],{{Cite news|url=http://www.pflag.com/when-last-we-flew-at-diversionary-theatre/|title=When Last We Flew at Diversionary Theatre|date=2012-10-27|work=PFLAG San Diego County |access-date=2017-12-24|language=en-US}} NYFringe{{Cite news|url=https://www.backstage.com/review/ny-theater/off-off-broadway/when-last-we-flew/|title=When Last We Flew|work=Backstage.com|access-date=2017-12-24}})

• Broadbend, Arkansas [with Ellen Fitzhugh and Ted Shen] ([http://transportgroup.org/ Transport Group]/[https://publictheater.org/ Public Theater]
• Five Points [with Douglas Lyons and Ethan Pakchar] ([http://www.latteda.org/ Theater Latté Da]{{Cite news|url=https://www.twincities.com/2017/05/01/classics-and-new-work-in-next-latte-da-season/|title=Classics and new work in next Theater Latte Da season|date=2017-05-02|work=Twin Cities|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en-US}})

• The Sea & The Stars (Ruth Easton New Play Series, 2017{{Cite news|url=http://minneapolis.happeningmag.com/playwrights-center-announces-45th-anniversary-season/|title=Playwrights' Center Announces 45th Anniversary Season - Minneapolis Happening|date=2016-09-19|work=Minneapolis Happening|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-12-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225092029/http://minneapolis.happeningmag.com/playwrights-center-announces-45th-anniversary-season/|url-status=dead}})
• The Salvagers
• The Last Queen of Canaan [with Rebekah Melocik and Jacob Yandura] ([https://namt.org/ NAMT] Festival of New Musicals{{Cite news|url=https://namt.org/festivals/2015/#musicals|title=27th Annual Festival of New Musicals|work=NAMT|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en-US}})
• Just One [with Ellen Fitzhugh and Ted Shen]

He is married to a man.{{Cite web |url=https://www.startribune.com/this-playwright-may-be-the-busiest-minnesotan-in-show-business/473464153/ |title=This playwright may be the busiest Minnesotan in show business |website=Star Tribune |first=Chris |last=Hewitt |date=February 8, 2018 }}

• 2020 Siena Art Institute Residency
• 2020 Bogliasco Residency{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfny.org/en/fellows/upcoming-fellows|title=Upcoming Fellows|website=www.bfny.org|access-date=2019-12-05}}
• 2020 Rudolph William Rosati Visiting Writer Fellowship at Duke University
• 2018 Relentless Award
• 2017 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award{{Cite web|url=http://www.tcg.org/Default.aspx?TabID=6484|title=TCG: Theatre Communications Group > Edgerton Foundation > New Play Awards > 2017 Awards > Where Storms are Born|website=www.tcg.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-24}}
• 2016-19 Core Writer{{Cite news|url=https://pwcenter.org/news/meet-2016-19-core-writers|title=Meet the 2016-19 Core Writers|date=2016-05-10|work=Playwrights' Center|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en}}
• 2015-16 McKnight Fellowship for Playwrights
• 2015 Founder's Award
• 2014-15 Jerome Many Voices Fellowship
• 2013 Global Age Project Winner
• 2011 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theater: Off Off Broadway
• 2011 New York International Fringe Festival Excellence in Playwriting Award
• 2011 Queer | Art | Mentorship
• 2010-12 Van Lier Fellowship
• 2009 Montblanc Young Writers Competition Winner
• 2009-10 Emerging Artist of Color Fellowship
• 2009 John Golden Playwriting Award

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