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:
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
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
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
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
