2011 - Winner (with Joshua H. Cohen) of the Jonathan Larson Award!!

2011 - Theatreworks Palo Alto´s Writers Residency

2010 - Commissioned by Montclair University´s New Works Initiative to create a new musical adaptation of Jason Grote´s play, 1001

2009 - Winner of the "American Musical Voices Project: the Next Generation" commission from the Shen Family Foundation to create an original full-length musical for the Tony-Award Winning Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA): First full workshop, Tamar and the River, July 2010

2009 - Commission - Kennedy Center, Develop new piece for Heritage Project

2008 - The Shen Family Foundation Developmental Grant, in conjunction with the Signature Theater´s "American Musical Voices Project: the Next Generation" - Honoree

2008 - New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Workshop. `

2007 - Fellowship to Compose Music and study Indian Hindustani singing in India

2006 - Winner of St. Botolph Grant-in-Aid for Composition