Honors & Blessings
- WRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION - Selected for the Veterans Project, working with Guild mentors to develop & write a new script - June '25
- THE WORM AND THE BUTTERFLY - Semi-Finalist, Stowe Story Labs Skyfire Studios Fellowship - March '24
- LOVE'S BABY SOFT - Selected to pitch at Catalyst Story Institute, Lake Placid Episodic Festival - July '23
- IN THE NIGHT I REMEMBER YOUR NAME begins airing on PBS - May '23
- IN THE NIGHT I REMEMBER YOUR NAME - Nominated for Best Documentary, Kevin Smith's Smodcastle Film Festival - May '23
- LOVE'S BABY SOFT - Nominated for Best Comedy Short, Best Actor, and Best Original Music, Kevin Smith's Smodcastle Film Festival - May '23
- LOVE'S BABY SOFT - Official Selection, Coney Island Film Festival - May '23
- ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING - Finalist, Stowe Story Labs Final Draft Fellowship - December '22
- EXIT ZERO - Semi-Finalist, Screencraft Horror Screenplay Competition - October '22
- LOVE'S BABY SOFT - Official Selection, Geena Davis' Bentonville Film Festival - June '22
- LOVE'S BABY SOFT - Official Selection, Vero Beach Film Festival - June '22
- MEMENTO MORI - Official Selection, Vero Beach Film Festival - June '22
- LOVED ONES - Semi-Finalist, Film Fatales Grant (Stowe Story Labs) - March '22
- MEMENTO MORI - Official Selection, Nosferatu Film Festival - October '21
- LOVED ONES - Quarter-Finalist, Page International Screenwriting Awards - August '21
- LOVE'S BABY SOFT - Semi-Finalist, Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards - August '21
- MEMENTO MORI - Official Selection and Winner Best Actress in a Short, Chain NYC Film Festival - August '21
- ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING - Selected Project, Stowe Story Labs Feature Campus - July '21
- LOVED ONES - Quarter-Finalist, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards - July '21
- LOVE'S BABY SOFT - Semi-Finalist, Emerging Screenwriters Shoot Your Short - January '21
- THE WORM AND THE BUTTERFLY - Semi-Finalist, ScreenCraft Horror Competition - August '20
- IN THE NIGHT I REMEMBER YOUR NAME - Official Selection, Reading Film Festival - November '18
- THE WAKES OF WILSON POE - 2nd Rounder out of 9,707 scripts, Austin Film Festival - September '18
- IN THE NIGHT I REMEMBER YOUR NAME - Finalist, Screencraft Film Fund (top 25 out of over 2000 entries) - February '18
- LOVED ONES - Finalist, Sundance Screenwriters Lab - August '16
- LOVE'S BABY SOFT - 2nd Rounder, Austin Film Festival (top 15% out of over 9,000 entries) - September '16
- LOVED ONES - top 5, Stowe Story Lab Tangerine Fellowship - August '15
- THE WAKES OF WILBUR POE - top 4% out of over 1200 scripts, Table Read My Screenplay (Sundance) - January '12
- LOVED ONES - Finalist for Best Screenplay of the Year, Amazon Studios - December '11
- THE WAKES OF WILBUR POE - Semi-Finalist, NexTV - August '11
- DEAREST - Finalist, Sundance Screenwriters Lab - August '10
- THE WAKES OF WILBUR POE - Finalist, Slamdance - September '10
- PROM QUEEN - Outline & Screenplay for Applause Films - 2009
- LOVED ONES - Winner, BlueCat "Screenplay Live" (Rochester Film Festival) - May '08
- LOVED ONES - Semi-Finalist, Bluecat Screenplay Lab - March '08
- DOLORES - Finalist, BlueCat Screenplay Lab - March '08
- DOLORES - Winner, WildSound Screenplay Reading Series - November '07
- LOVED ONES - Finalist, BlueCat Screenplay Competition (top 5 scripts out of over 2400 entries) - July '07
- LOVED ONES - Finalist, WildSound Screenplay Reading Series (top 9) - April '07
- LOVED ONES - Quarter-Finalist, Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope - February '07
- DOLORES - Semi-Finalist, American Gem Short Script Contest (top 15 scripts out of 1023 entries) - August '05
- DEAREST - Semi-Finalist, Women In Film Las Vegas Project c2c Competition (top 55 scripts) - July '05
- DEAREST - Finalist, Media Darlings Guerilla Filmmaking Grant (top 10 scripts) - May '05
- Commercial script - Car & Driver Magazine - September '04
- DEAREST - Semi-Finalist, Blueprint (Maverick Films) - March '04
- WYNTON MARSALIS RADIO SCRIPTS - Jazz At Lincoln Center for Delta Airlines radio - January '04
- OLDER - Tribeca Underground Film Festival - 2004
- OLDER - 2nd Place, Pioneer Theatre Short Film Slam, New York City - December '03
- DOLORES - Finalist, CfiFN Short Script Competition (top 5 scripts) - November '03
- OLDER - Cape Fear Independent Film Network Festival, Wilmington, North Carolina - October '03
- DEAREST & BAKER HILL BEAUTIES - Semi-Finalists, Writers Network - October '03
- WHEELS WANTED - Semi-Finalist, Flicks on 66 Short Script Competition - May '03
- DOLORES - 2nd Place, short script category, Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope - February '02
- Commercial script - MF2 Productions (BMW) - 2002
- BAKER HILL BEAUTIES & KISS & TELL - Semi-Finalists, Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project - January '00
- Helena Rubinstein Scholarship - New York University - 1992