Playwriting, New Play Development, Dramaturgy, Directing. Black /African Diasporic Dramatic text & performance, Black / African Diasporic / WOC Feminist performance ideologies and practice.
Panta Rhea Grant, for IN THE WAKE INSTITUTE, 2023
Wallace Gerbode Special Award in the Arts, Playwriting, 2019-23
Zellerbach Family Foundation Artist Panelist Award, 2020, 2021 & 2022
Humanities Grant, Colorado College 2022
Dean’s Research Grant, Colorado College, 2021
Playwrights Initiative Fellowship, Djerassi, 2018
Bay Brilliant Award, KQED honoring women artists in the Bay Area, 2018
Outstanding Direction of a Play (nominee, The Shipment), Theater Bay Area Awards 2017
SF Arts Commission Grant, for new play development, UNTOLD 2017
Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award, Other Words for Grief (Finishing Line Press, 2018)
CA$H Grant, Theater Bay Area, 2015
Individual Artist Grant, City of Oakland Cultural Arts, 2012
Individual Artist Grant, Zellerbach Foundation, 2011
Finalist, Individual Artist Grant, Theater Bay Area, 2011, 2012
Individual Artist Grant, James Irvine Foundation, 2011
Colorlines Magazine’s ‘Innovator to Watch”, 2009