Awards and Distinctions

Recipient, Association of Amherst Students Distinguished Teaching Award (2016)

Member, Lincoln Center Theater Director's Lab (2008-present)

Associate Artist, North Carolina Stage Company (2002-present)

Theater Director, Sequitur New Music Ensemble (1996-present)

Alley Audience Awards, 2008
Best Production and Best Director, Moonlight & Magnolias (director), North Carolina Stage Company
Best Actress and Best Lighting Design, Macbeth (director), North Carolina Stage Company

Mountain Express Readers’ Choice Awards, 2007
Show of 2007, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (director), North Carolina Stage Company

Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Off-Broadway Achievement, 2005
Nominee, Outstanding Musical, Lone Star Love (assistant director), John Houseman Theater, New York NY

Knoxville Area Theatre Coalition Awards, 2003
Best Director of a Musical for The Secret Garden (director), Clarence Brown Theatre, Knoxville

Mountain Express Reader’s Choice Awards, 2003
Best Production (tie) for Hamlet (director and production designer), North Carolina Stage Company
Best Production (tie) for Hedwig and the Angry Inch (director), North Carolina Stage Company

Featured Artist & Panelist, Brown Symposium XXIII (Shakespeares!!), Southwestern University, 2001
Director and adaptor, Hamlet Trio

Featured Participant, International Brecht Symposium, University of Delaware, 1992
Director and adaptor, Zum Gebrach: A Thrifty Brecht Cabaret

Amherst College, 1987-1988
Edward Poole Lay Fellowship
Roland Wood Prize
Phi Beta Kappa
Marsh Arts House Founder and Director