I knew there was something special about the theatre for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.
Raul Julia
Raul Julia
Awards & Recognitions:
Short Screenplays
Between a Hotdog and a Hard Place
2023 Honorable Mention London International Monthly Film Festival
Yazmin & Malik
2023 Official Selection Grande Stories Screenplay Competition
Union Square
2023 Official Selection Festival Angalica
J&P4Ever
2003 Quarter Finalist American Gem Short Screenplay Competition
Lester Collins
2024 Semi-Finalist Best Short Film ReWind International Film Festival
2021 Semi-Finalist Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
Full Length Screenplays
La Potencia (screenplay)
2024 - Semi-Finalist Feature Film ReWind International Film Festival
2024 - Finalist Grande Stories Screenplay Competition
2023 - Finalist Reading Film Fest
2023 - Official Selection 13th Annual International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival
Los Abandonados/The Abandoned
2022 Best Dramatic Screenplay 12th Annual International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival
2022 Official Selection DraftOut Screenwriting Contest
In Da Boogie Down (screenplay)
2024 - Nomination Best Screenplay Feature Film ReWind International Film Festival
Impact
2021 Best Drama Feature Screenplay Marina del Rey Film Festival
2021 Quarter Finalist Creative World Awards
2021 Semi-Finalist Birmingham Film and Television Festival
2022 Honorable Mention London International Monthly Film Festival
Los Hermanos Dela Cruz (co-writer Mary Perez)
2021 Finalist Wales International Film Festival
2004 Finalist Sundance Film Institute Film/Writer's Workshop
The Heights
2022 Official Selection Bloodstained Indie Film Festival
One hour television pilot
On The Boulevard
2021 Finalist Creative World Awards
2021 Quarter Finalist Atlanta International Screenplay Awards
2021 Finalist Birmingham Film and Television Festival
2021 Semi-finalist Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival
2020 Quarter Finalist Eighteenth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition
2020 Award Winner Luis Bunuel Memorial Awards
2020 Award winner L'Age d'Or International Arthouse Film Festival (LIAFF)
2020 Quarter-Finalist Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards
2020 Semi-Finalist HollyShorts Screenplay Competition
Theatre:
La Potencia
2023 - Semi-Finalist Bay Street Theatre Tidel Wave New Works Festival
2023 - Semi-Finalist Premiere Stages Play Festival
Caged
2023 - Official Selection Downtown Urban Arts Theatre Festival
TGIF Can't Get Here Soon Enough
2021 - Official Selection Downtown Urban Arts Theatre Festival
Prospect Avenue
2020 - Top Ten Finalist Brave New World Repertory New Works Festival
Happy, happy. Sad, sad. Close One Eye. It Won't Look So bad.
2022 - Semi-Finalist Wordsmyth Theatre Company Development Reading Series
2019 - Semi-Finalist New Plays for Young Audiences at the Provincetown Playhouse
2019 - Finalist Pegasus PlayLab at the University of Central Florida
The Spirit, The Body & The Blood
2021 - Finalist Texas State Black and Latino Playwright Celebration New Play Development Workshop
2019 - New Dramatist Semi-Finalist Princess Grace Playwrighting Fellowship,
Frederick Douglass & The Fallen Angels
2017 - Semi-Finalist Eugene O'Neill Playwright Conference
2017 - New Dramatist Semi-Finalist Princess Grace Playwrighting Fellowship
2020 - The Mix/Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Between a Hot Dog and a Hard Place
2015 - Best Short Play Award Downtown Urban Theatre Festival
In Da Boogie Down
2012 - Finalist Metlife Foundation "Nuestra Voces" National Playwrights Competition
Undertow
2012 - Third place finalist best short play award Downtown Urban Theatre Festival
Afterloss
2012 - Finalist for StageWorks/Hudson Play by Play Festival
Night Train
2009 - Finalist Second annual New Works festival/Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble
Midnight Mass
2006 - Best Play award runner up Metlife Foundation "Nuestra Voces" National Playwrights' Competition
Voices From The Front: W.A.C. Iraq
2006 - NYC Department of Cultural Affairs award
Tours of Duty
2005 - Co-winner Best Short Play The Downtown Urban Theatre Festival/Arco Entertainment
Certificates/Recognitions:
2024 - Smith & Kraus The Best Women's Stage Monologues (publication)
2024 - Smith & Kraus The Best Ten-Minute Plays (publication)
2024 - Smith & Kraus The Best Men's Stage Monologues (publication)
2023 - Smith & Kraus The Best Women's Stage Monologues (publication)
2023 - Full Moon Inside a Red Sky - Next Stage Press (publication)
2023 - In Da Boogie Down - Next Stage Press (publication)
2021 - Cultural Solidarity Fund
2021 - Arts Administrators of Color Network/Arts Leadership of Color Emergency Fund Grant
2021 - Prospect Avenue - Next Stage Press (publication)
2019 - The Spirit, The Body & The Blood - Next Stage Press (publication)
2019 - The Tank Pilot Program Writers group
2018 - LITCouncil Men of Color Playwrighting residency
2018 - Los Embrujados/The Haunted Ones/Original Works Publishing (publication)
2013 - Northpoint Voices Inside/Out Playwright Residency award
2012 - Top Five Finalist for Northpoint Voices Inside/Out Playwright Residency
2011 - Top Ten Finalist for Northpoint Voices Inside/Out Playwright Residency
2011 - Apple Core Theatre Company Play Commission
2010 - Social Drama Training Certificate: Introduction to Sociodrama (parts 1 & 2)/Practicum
2010 - Certificate in Special needs Education: TATI (Teaching Artist Training Institute)
2010 - Certificate in Advanced Teaching-Artist Training Program - Community-Word Project
2007 - Certificate in using the arts with the HIV/AIDs Population - Rutgers School of Social Work
2005 - Brooklyn Arts Council ReGrant award
Short Screenplays
Between a Hotdog and a Hard Place
2023 Honorable Mention London International Monthly Film Festival
Yazmin & Malik
2023 Official Selection Grande Stories Screenplay Competition
Union Square
2023 Official Selection Festival Angalica
J&P4Ever
2003 Quarter Finalist American Gem Short Screenplay Competition
Lester Collins
2024 Semi-Finalist Best Short Film ReWind International Film Festival
2021 Semi-Finalist Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
Full Length Screenplays
La Potencia (screenplay)
2024 - Semi-Finalist Feature Film ReWind International Film Festival
2024 - Finalist Grande Stories Screenplay Competition
2023 - Finalist Reading Film Fest
2023 - Official Selection 13th Annual International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival
Los Abandonados/The Abandoned
2022 Best Dramatic Screenplay 12th Annual International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival
2022 Official Selection DraftOut Screenwriting Contest
In Da Boogie Down (screenplay)
2024 - Nomination Best Screenplay Feature Film ReWind International Film Festival
Impact
2021 Best Drama Feature Screenplay Marina del Rey Film Festival
2021 Quarter Finalist Creative World Awards
2021 Semi-Finalist Birmingham Film and Television Festival
2022 Honorable Mention London International Monthly Film Festival
Los Hermanos Dela Cruz (co-writer Mary Perez)
2021 Finalist Wales International Film Festival
2004 Finalist Sundance Film Institute Film/Writer's Workshop
The Heights
2022 Official Selection Bloodstained Indie Film Festival
One hour television pilot
On The Boulevard
2021 Finalist Creative World Awards
2021 Quarter Finalist Atlanta International Screenplay Awards
2021 Finalist Birmingham Film and Television Festival
2021 Semi-finalist Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival
2020 Quarter Finalist Eighteenth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition
2020 Award Winner Luis Bunuel Memorial Awards
2020 Award winner L'Age d'Or International Arthouse Film Festival (LIAFF)
2020 Quarter-Finalist Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards
2020 Semi-Finalist HollyShorts Screenplay Competition
Theatre:
La Potencia
2023 - Semi-Finalist Bay Street Theatre Tidel Wave New Works Festival
2023 - Semi-Finalist Premiere Stages Play Festival
Caged
2023 - Official Selection Downtown Urban Arts Theatre Festival
TGIF Can't Get Here Soon Enough
2021 - Official Selection Downtown Urban Arts Theatre Festival
Prospect Avenue
2020 - Top Ten Finalist Brave New World Repertory New Works Festival
Happy, happy. Sad, sad. Close One Eye. It Won't Look So bad.
2022 - Semi-Finalist Wordsmyth Theatre Company Development Reading Series
2019 - Semi-Finalist New Plays for Young Audiences at the Provincetown Playhouse
2019 - Finalist Pegasus PlayLab at the University of Central Florida
The Spirit, The Body & The Blood
2021 - Finalist Texas State Black and Latino Playwright Celebration New Play Development Workshop
2019 - New Dramatist Semi-Finalist Princess Grace Playwrighting Fellowship,
Frederick Douglass & The Fallen Angels
2017 - Semi-Finalist Eugene O'Neill Playwright Conference
2017 - New Dramatist Semi-Finalist Princess Grace Playwrighting Fellowship
2020 - The Mix/Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Between a Hot Dog and a Hard Place
2015 - Best Short Play Award Downtown Urban Theatre Festival
In Da Boogie Down
2012 - Finalist Metlife Foundation "Nuestra Voces" National Playwrights Competition
Undertow
2012 - Third place finalist best short play award Downtown Urban Theatre Festival
Afterloss
2012 - Finalist for StageWorks/Hudson Play by Play Festival
Night Train
2009 - Finalist Second annual New Works festival/Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble
Midnight Mass
2006 - Best Play award runner up Metlife Foundation "Nuestra Voces" National Playwrights' Competition
Voices From The Front: W.A.C. Iraq
2006 - NYC Department of Cultural Affairs award
Tours of Duty
2005 - Co-winner Best Short Play The Downtown Urban Theatre Festival/Arco Entertainment
Certificates/Recognitions:
2024 - Smith & Kraus The Best Women's Stage Monologues (publication)
2024 - Smith & Kraus The Best Ten-Minute Plays (publication)
2024 - Smith & Kraus The Best Men's Stage Monologues (publication)
2023 - Smith & Kraus The Best Women's Stage Monologues (publication)
2023 - Full Moon Inside a Red Sky - Next Stage Press (publication)
2023 - In Da Boogie Down - Next Stage Press (publication)
2021 - Cultural Solidarity Fund
2021 - Arts Administrators of Color Network/Arts Leadership of Color Emergency Fund Grant
2021 - Prospect Avenue - Next Stage Press (publication)
2019 - The Spirit, The Body & The Blood - Next Stage Press (publication)
2019 - The Tank Pilot Program Writers group
2018 - LITCouncil Men of Color Playwrighting residency
2018 - Los Embrujados/The Haunted Ones/Original Works Publishing (publication)
2013 - Northpoint Voices Inside/Out Playwright Residency award
2012 - Top Five Finalist for Northpoint Voices Inside/Out Playwright Residency
2011 - Top Ten Finalist for Northpoint Voices Inside/Out Playwright Residency
2011 - Apple Core Theatre Company Play Commission
2010 - Social Drama Training Certificate: Introduction to Sociodrama (parts 1 & 2)/Practicum
2010 - Certificate in Special needs Education: TATI (Teaching Artist Training Institute)
2010 - Certificate in Advanced Teaching-Artist Training Program - Community-Word Project
2007 - Certificate in using the arts with the HIV/AIDs Population - Rutgers School of Social Work
2005 - Brooklyn Arts Council ReGrant award