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

---

Awards & Recognitions:

Film/Television:
Between a Hotdog and a Hard Place
2022 - Official Selection/Honorable Mention London International Monthly Film Festival
Impact
2022 - Official Selection/Honorable Mention London International Monthly Film Festival
2021 - Official Selection Kalakari Film Festival
2021 - Official Selection Hollywood Art & Movie Award
2020 - Official Selection Indo Global International Film Festival
2020 - Award winner Tagore International Film Festival Feature Script Critics Choice/                       Nominated Sun of The East award
2020 - Finalist Tagore International Film Festival
2020 - Award winner Outstanding Achievement award World Film Carnival-Singapore/Nominated for Golden Marlon award
2020 - Finalist World Film Carnival-Singapore
2020 - Official Selection Tagore International Film Festival
2020 - Official Selection World Film Carnival-Singapore
2020 - Finalist International Moving Film Festival
2020 - Semi-Finalist International Moving Film Festival
2020 - Official Selection International Moving Film Festival
2020 - Award winner Outstanding Achievement Award/Uruvatti International Film Festival/Nominated for the Golden Horse award
2020 - Finalist Uruvatti International Film Festival
2020 - Official Selection Uruvatti International Film Festival
2020 - Award winner Certificate of Excellence to the feature screenplay/The Buddha International Film Festival
2020 - Official Selection The LIFF India Filmotsav-World Cine Fest
2020 - Official Selection The Buddha International Film Festival
Yazmin & Malik
2020 - Finalist International Moving Film Festival
2020 - Semi-Finalist International Moving Film Festival
2020 - Official Selection International Moving Film Festival
2020 - Award winner Uruvatti International Film Festival/Nominated for the Golden Horse award
2020 - Finalist Uruvatti International Film Festival
2020 - Official Selection Uruvatti International Film Festival
2020 - Award winner Tagore International Film Festival Short Script Critics Choice award/                            Nominated Sun of The East award
2020 - Finalist Tagore International Film Festival
2020 - Official Selection Tagore International Film Festival
On The Boulevard
2021 - Semi-finalist Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival
2021 - Official Selection Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival
2020 - Quarter Finalist Eighteenth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition
2020 - Best screenplay award Indo Global International
2020 - Official Selection Indo Global International
2020 - Award winner L'Age d'Or International Arthouse Film Festival (LIAFF)/                                                        Nominated for the Pigeon D'OR Awards
2020 - Award winner Uruvatti International Film Festival/Nominated for the Golden Horse award
2020 - Finalist Uruvatti International Film Festival
2020 - Official Selection Uruvatti International Film Festival                                                                                          2020 - Official Selection L'Age d'Or International Arthouse Film Festival (LIAFF)
2020 - Award winner Point Blair International Film festival (Nominated Golden Jarawas award)
2020 - Finalist Point Blair International Film Festival
2020 - Official Selection Point Blair International Film Festival
2020 - Award winner Tagore International Film Festival (Nominated Sun of The East award)
2020 - Finalist Tagore International Film Festival
2020 - Official Selection Tagore International Film Festival
2020 - Official Selection Rome Independent PRISMA awards
2020 - Quarter-Finalist Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards 
2020 - Semi-Finalist HollyShorts Screenplay Competition
2020 - Official Selection HollyShorts Screenplay Competition
Los Hermanos Dela Cruz (co-writer Mary Perez)  
2004 - Sundance Film Institute Film/Writer's Workshop Finalist 
J & P4 Ever 
​2003 - Quarter Finalist American Gem Short Screenplay Competition 

Theatre:
TGIF Can't Get Here Soon Enough
2021 - Finalist 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 
​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 
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:
2010 - Social Drama Training Certificate:
Introduction to Sociodrama (parts 1 & 2)/Practicum - Instructor: Nancy Sondag
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/Arts in Prevention Workshop 

Recognitions:
2021 - Arts Administrators of Color Network/Arts Leadership of Color Emergency Fund Grant
2021 - Prospect Avenue - Next Stage Press
2020 - Actors Fund Encore Award
2019 - The Tank Pilot Program Writer's group   
2018 - LITCouncil Men of Color Playwrighting residency
2018 - Los Embrujados/The Haunted Ones/Original Works Publishing
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
2005 - Brooklyn Arts Council ReGrant award