Awards

2012

Inaugural Doris Duke Artists
awarded an unrestricted, multi-year cash grant

2011

Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance
for  album Lonely Motel, Cedille Records

2010

Three Grammy nominations for album Dream House
Best Classical Album | Best Orchestral Performance | Best Engineered Album, Classical
directed by Gil Rose

2009

Alpert Award in the Arts, Theatre

2008

Drama Desk Award Nomination – Best Play (Horizon)
Lucille Lortel Award - "Unique Theatrical Experience” (Horizon)

2007

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama (Orpheus X)
Guggenheim Fellowship, Music Composition

2005

American Academy of Arts & Letters: Marc Blitzstein Award
         (Four Songs Lost in a Wall and Highway Ulysses)

2004

Meet the Composer Award
to compose / write a new play for American Repertory Theatre

2003

Eliot Norton Award, Boston
Best Production by a Large Resident Company (Highway Ulysses)
American Repertory Theatre

2000

Drama Desk Award Nomination (And God Created Great Whales)
Obie Award (And God Created Great Whales)

1998

Drama Desk Award Nomination
Sound Design, CSC (Therese Raquin)

1989

Isadora Duncan Award, Best Text and Music Score (Dry Land Divine)
The Esquire Register Arts and Letters Award, Esquire Magazine

1988

Isadora Duncan Award, Best Text and Music Score (Shelf Life)
Critics Circle Award-Best Solo Performance (Slow Fire)
Academy Of Theatre Artists and Friends, Chicago-Best Production (Not For Real)

1987

Critics Circle Award, San Francisco - Best New Theater Performance (Not For Real)

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