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

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Awards & Recognitions:

Film/Television:
Los Abandonados/The Abandoned
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 The LIFF 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/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 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 LIFF 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 INDIE Suspense Horror Sci-Fi Film Festival
2021 - Official Selection Culver City 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
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