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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:

Caged                                                                                                            2023 Best Screenplay Monza Film Festival                                                      Los Abandonados/The Abandoned
2022 Official Selection LIFFT India Filmotsav & Awards World Cine Fest
2022 Best Dramatic Screenplay 12th Annual International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival
2022 Official Selection 12th Annual International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival

2022 Official Selection DraftOut Screenplay Contest
Between a Hotdog and a Hard Place
2022 Official Selection/Honorable Mention London International Monthly Film Festival
Impact
2021 Honorable Mention Sanctuary International Film Festival
2021 Best Drama Feature Screenplay Marina del Rey Film Festival
2021 Quarter Finalist Creative World Awards
2021 Best Screenplay Ouchy Film Awards
2021 AI Award for Screenplay Ouchy Film Awards
2021 Nominated Best Feature Script Top Indie Film Awards
2021 Honorable Mention Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival
2021 Semi-Finalist Birmingham Film and Television Festival
2022 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 Award winner Outstanding Achievement award World Film Carnival-Singapore/Nominated for Golden Marlon award
2020 Finalist International Moving Film Festival
2020 Award winner Outstanding Achievement Award/Uruvatti International Film Festival/Nominated for the Golden Horse award
2020 Award winner Certificate of Excellence to the feature screenplay/The Buddha International Film Festival
2020 - Official Selection LIFFT India Filmotsav-World Cine Fest
Yazmin & Malik
2022 Official Selection Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival
2021 Finalist FFTG Awards
2021 Official Selection Freedom Festival International
2020 Finalist International Moving Film Festival
2020 Award winner Uruvatti International Film Festival/Nominated for the Golden Horse award
2020 Award winner Tagore International Film Festival Short Script Critics Choice award/ Nominated Sun of The East award
On The Boulevard

2022 Official Selection LIFFT India Filmotsav & Awards World Cine Fest
2022 Official Selection/Award Winner Golden Lion International Film Festival (GLIFF)
2022 Official Selection DraftOut Screenplay Contest
2022 Official Selection Scriptify 
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 Best screenplay award Indo Global International
2020 Award Winner Luis Bunuel Memorial Awards
2020 Award winner L'Age d'Or International Arthouse Film Festival (LIAFF)/Nominated for the Pigeon D'OR Awards
2020 Official Selection/Award winner Uruvatti International Film Festival/Nominated for the Golden Horse award
2020 Award winner Point Blair International Film festival (Nominated Golden Jarawas award)
2020 Award winner Tagore International Film Festival (Nominated Sun of The East award)
2020 Official Selection Rome Independent PRISMA awards
2020 Quarter-Finalist Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards 
2020 Semi-Finalist HollyShorts Screenplay Competition
Los Hermanos Dela Cruz (co-writer Mary Perez)
2021 Official Selection Culver City Film Festival

2021 Official Selection Rome Independent PRISMA awards
2021 Official Selection the LIFFT India Filmotsav-World Cine Fest 
2021 Honorable Mention Sanctuary International Film Festival
2021 Official Selection International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 
​2021 Finalist Wales International Film Festival
2004 Finalist Sundance Film Institute Film/Writer's Workshop 
J & P4 Ever 
​2003 Quarter Finalist American Gem Short Screenplay Competition 
Lester Collins
2021 Finalist FFTG Awards
2021 Official Selection KinoDrome: International Motion Picture & Screenplay Awards
2021 Semi-Finalist Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
2021 Official Selection Arkadia Studio Screenwriting Contest
2021 Best Short Script Top Indie Film Awards
Instruments of Darkness                                                                            2022 Official Selection LIFFT India Filmostav & Awards World Cine Fest
2022 Official Selection INDIE Suspense Horror Sci-Fi Film Festival
2021 Official Selection Culver City Film Festival
Union Square
2022 Tournadeau Music & Film Festival
The Heights
2022 Official Selection Bloodstained Indie Film Festival


Theatre:
TGIF Can't Get Here Soon Enough
2021 - Official Selection Downtown Urban Arts Theatre Festival
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 
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

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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 - Cultural Solidarity Fund
2021 - Arts Administrators of Color Network/Arts Leadership of Color Emergency Fund Grant
2021 - Prospect Avenue - Next Stage Press
2019 - The Tank Pilot Program Writers 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

 





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