Writing Awards & Prizes
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Tesla
Tesla Science Foundation Award
Parental Consent
Winner, Theatre Oxford
Winner, Northern Writes, Penobscott Theatre
Winner, 6-Women Playwriting Festival
Wild Card winner, Short + Sweet, Sydney
Published: Best American Ten-Minute plays, 2010, Smith & Kraus
“The funniest among the relationship plays during these first two programs is Sheri Graubert’s Magnolia Day, in which a svelte bride-to-be, played by the piquant Sarah Fischer, is evilly tempted by her passive-aggressive sister (Margo Seibert), who passes under her nose the Magnolia Bakery cupcakes they share on this one day each year.” Peter Marks, Washington Post
Source Festival, Washington DC – selected from 900 submissions
Winner Nantucket Short Play Festival
Winner Festapalooza, Mind the Gap, Chicago.
Shortlisted, Yellow Springs Corner Cone 10 Minute Play Festival
Wagner College, 2009 & 2010
8 Minute Madness! Turtle Shell Productions,
Fancy Pants Directors Festival
Winner Millersville University Theatre Ten Minute Play Contest
Redwood Hill High School, CA
L’especifica, Barcelona
Northeast Mississippi Community College
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
SHOBI College of Music in Tokyo, Japan at Studio Buca (マグノリアの日)
Published: Best American Short Plays, 2011, Smith & Kraus
“The Summer Display was the standout of the evening. A woman plants her window box and repairs her life as her husband desperately searches for the neighbours’ dog that has gone missing. The mild mannered English lady covers her seeds and a possibly dastardly deed. The performances were subtle, poignant and very funny. (5 hearts)” aussietheatre.com
Short + Sweet, Sydney – Joint First Place, Jury Selection
Off Cut Festival, London
Rick Spacey & the Space Cadets
Celebrating it’s twelfth consecutive year run in NYC children’s hospitals and children’s wards. Only Make Believe, the commissioning producer just asked me to write the sequel.
The Troglodytes
Winner: WetInk Festival Reverie Produtions, 59E59th Street
Finalist: Lark Play Development Center, Playwrights Week
Penny Black
Finalist, Women at Play(s)4, 2009
Semi-finalist, Heartland Theatre, 2010
Selected for permanent archive, Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors, 2009
Selected for Playlabs, Great Plains Theatre Conference, 2008
Chosen for Words & Wine reading series, NYC, 2011
Love Dust
Winner, Sundog Theatre, Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry
BCCT, Sydney, Australia
Re-selected for Sundog’s 10-year Best-of season.
