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:
2020 - Impact
Certificate of Excellence to the feature screenplay/The Buddha International Film Festival
2020 -  "On The Boulevard"                                                                                                                                        Selected for inclusion in the L'Age d'Or International Arthouse Film Festival (LIAFF)
2020 - Actors Fund Encore Award
2020 - "On The Boulevard"
Winner Point Blair International Film festival (Nominated Golden Jarawas award)
2020 - Impact
Selected for inclusion in The LIFF India Filmotsav-World Cine Fest
2020 - Impact
Selected for inclusion in The Buddha International Film Festival
2020 - "On The Boulevard"
Finalist Point Blair International Film Festival
2020 - "On The Boulevard"
Selected for inclusion to Point Blair International Film Festival
2020 - "On The Boulevard"
Winner Tagore International Film Festival (Nominated Sun of The East award)
2020 - "On The Boulevard"
Finalist Tagore International Film Festival
2020 - "Yazmin & Malik"
Winner Tagore International Film Festival Short Script Critics Choice award/Nominated Sun of The East award
2020 - "Yazmin & Malik"
Finalist Tagore International Film Festival
2020 - "Yazmin & Malik"
Selected for inclusion to Tagore International Film Festival
2020 - "On The Boulevard"
Selected for inclusion to Tagore International Film Festival
2020 - "On The Boulevard"
Selected for inclusion to Rome Independent PRISMA awards
2020 - "On The Boulevard"
Quarter-Finalist Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards 
2020 - "On The Boulevard"
Semi-Finalist HollyShorts Screenplay Competition
2020 - "On The Boulevard"
Official Selection HollyShorts Screenplay Competition
2020 - "Prospect Avenue"
Top Ten Finalist Brave New World Repertory New Works Festival
2019 -  "Happy, happy. Sad, sad. Close One Eye. It Won't Look So bad" 
​Semi-Finalist New Plays for Young Audiences at the Provincetown Playhouse 
2019 - "Happy, happy. Sad, sad. Close One Eye. it Won't look So Bad"   
Finalist Pegasus  PlayLab at the University of Central Florida
2019 - The Tank Pilot Program Writer's group                                                                                          .                  2019 - "The Spirit, The Body & The Blood" 
Semi-Finalist Princess Grace Playwrighting Fellowship,
2018 - "Los Embrujados/The Haunted Ones"
Original Works Publishing
2018 - LITCouncil Men of Color Playwrighting residency
2017 - "Frederick Douglass & The Fallen Angels"
Semi-Finalist Eugene O'Neill Playwright Conference
2017 - "Frederick Douglass & The Fallen  Angels"
Semi-Finalist Princess Grace Playwrighting Fellowship,
2015 - "Between a Hot Dog and a Hard Place" 
Best Short Play Award Downtown Urban Theatre Festival
2013 - Northpoint Voices Inside/Out Playwright Residency award
2012 - "In Da Boogie Down"
Finalist Metlife Foundation "Nuestra Voces" National Playwrights Competition
2012 - "Undertow"
Third place finalist best short play award Downtown Urban Theatre Festival
2012 - "Afterloss" finalist for StageWorks/Hudson Play by Play festival
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 - Instructor: Nancy Sondag, RDT/BCT, LCAT)
2010 - Certificate in Special needs Education: TATI (Teaching Artist Training Institute)
2010 - Certificate in Advanced Teaching-Artist Training Program - Community-Word Project     
2009 - "Night Train"
Finalist Second annual New Works festival/Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble
2007 - Certificate in using the arts with the HIV/AIDs Population   
Rutgers School of Social Work/Arts in Prevention Workshop 
2006 -  "Midnight Mass" 
Best Play award runner up Metlife Foundation "Nuestra Voces" National Playwrights' Competition 
2006 -   "Voices From The Front: W.A.C. Iraq 
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs award 
2005 -   "Tours of Duty"
Co-winner Best Short Play The Downtown Urban Theatre Festival/Arco Entertainment
2004 -   "Los Hermanos Dela Cruz" (co-writer Mary Perez)  
Sundance Film Institute Film/Writer's Workshop Finalist 
2003 -   "J & P4 Ever" 
​Quarter Finalist American Gem Short Screenplay Competition