Awards

Obie Award -- 2010

Dallas Theater Critics Forum Award -- 2010 Best Touring Show

Independent Bloggers Award -- 2010

GLAAD Media Award Nomination -- 2009

Chicago Jeff Award Nomination -- 2009

James Hammerstein Award for playwriting -- 2008

One of Out Magazine’s 100 -- 2008

NY Innovative Theater Award Nom. Best Solo Performance - 2008

NY Innovative Theater Award Nom.  Best Performance Art Prod -- 2008

GLAAD Media Award Nomination -- 2008

GLAAD Media Award Nomination -- 2007

Latest 7 Award -- Best Show -- 2007

Best of Brighton Review Award -- 2007

Argus Angel Award -- 2007

Edinburgh Festival’s Herald Angel Award -- 2006

PS 122’s Ethyl Eichelberger Award – 2005

 

Grants

McKnight National Residency Commission -- 2010

Map Grant (with Talking  Band) -- 2010

NYSCA (with Talking Band) -- 2010

NYFA -- 2009

Creative Capital Grant -- 2009

Rockefeller Map Grant (with HERE Arts Center) -- 2008

New York State Council on the Arts -- 2007

Franklin Furnace -- 2007

Peter S. Reed -- 2005


Fellowships/Retreats

New Dramatists

HERE Arts Center Resident Artists

Sundance Theater Lab

Edward Albee Foundation Residency

Ensemble Studio Theatre’s New Voices Fellowship

 

Print Publications

Vintage Press

No Passport Press

Playscripts

New York Theatre Review

New York Theatre Experience

Allworth Press

Smith and Kraus


Online Publications

Howlround.com:  A Culture of Trust


Production History

“The Lily’s Revenge”

Magic Theater, San Francisco, May 2011

HERE Arts Center, NYC, 2009


“The Walk Across America For Mother Earth”

La Mama, New York City, 2011


“Comparison is Violence or The Ziggy Stardust

Meets Tiny Tim Songbook”

Time Based Arts Festival, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, 2011

Ann Arbor Summer Festival, 2011

The Spoleto Festival, June 2011

Sydney Opera House, February 2011

Brisbane Powerhouse, 2011

Melbourne Recital Hall, 2011

Auckland Arts Festival, 2011

Perth Arts Festival, 2011

Dublin Fringe, Ireland, 2010

The Arches, Glasgow, 2010

Soho Theater, London, 2010

Queer Up North Festival, Manchester, 2010

Joe’s Pub, New York City, 2010

 

“The Young Ladies Of”

Norwich/Norfolk Festival, UK, 2009

Queer Up North Festival, Manchester, UK 2009

Playmaker’s Repertory, North Carolina, 2009

About Face Theater, Chicago, 2008

HERE Arts Center (extension), New York City, 2008

Sodra Teater -- Stockholm, Sweden, 2008

Saga Teater -- Umea, Sweden, 2008

Saga Teater -- Linkoping, Sweden, 2008

Stadsteater -- Lund, Sweden, 2008

HERE Arts Center -- New York City, 2007

The Battersea Arts Center (workshop) -- London, 2007

Performance Space 122 (workshop) -- New York City, 2005

 

“Live Patriot Acts2:  Alien Nation”

HERE Arts Center, 2007

 

“Peace”

Target Margins’ Aristophanica Festival, HERE Arts Center, NYC, 2007

 

“The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac”

Perth Arts Festival, 2011

Colonial Theater, Miami, 2010

Undermain Theater, Dallas, 2010

Yale Rep, 2010

Fisher Center, Bard College, 2009

The Udderbelly, Southbank, London, 2009

Norwich/Norfolk Festival, UK, 2009

La  Chapelle, Montreal, 2009

Rhubarb Festival, Toronto, 2009

Victoria’s Intrepid Theater, 2009

Whitehorse’s Pivot Festival, 2009

Vancouver’s Push Festival, 2009

Maui Arts Cultural Center, 2009

Brisbane Powerhouse, 2008

Feast Festival, Adelaide, 2008

Spiegeltent, Melbourne, 2008

Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, 2008

Williams College, Mass, 2008

HERE Arts Center, New York City, 2008

The Spoleto Festival, South Carolina, 2008

Counter Pulse, San Francisco, 2008

Nuffield Theater, Lancaster, 2007

Homotopia Festival, Liverpool, 2007

Time Based Arts Festival, Portland, Oregon, 2007

Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, 2007

Galway Festival, 2007

Project Arts Center, Dublin, 2007

Kinsale Arts Week, 2007

Newbury Comedy Festival, 2007

Glastonbury Festival, 2007

Cork Mid-Summer Festival, 2007

The Source Arts Center, Thurles, 2007

Cairde Summer Festival, Sligo, 2007

The Arches, Glasgow, 2007

The Soho Theater, London, 2007

The Battersea Arts Center, London, 2007

The Lighthouse, Poole, 2007

The Junction, Cambridge, 2007

Norwich/Norfolk Festival, 2007

Colchester Arts Center, 2007

The Rondo, Bath, 2007

Eastleigh Arts Center, 2007

The Komedia, Brighton, 2007

Soderhamm, Sweden, 2007

Saga Teater, Linkoping, Sweden, 2007

Stadsteater, Lund, Sweden, 2007

Saga Teater, Umea, 2007

Sodra Teater, Stockholm, mainstage 2007

The Sydney Festival, The Sydney Opera House, 2007

Under the Radar Festival, The Public Theater, New York City, 2007

La Mama, New York City, 2007

The Reindeer, London, 2006

Bistrotech, London, 2006

Sodra Teater Stockholm, Studio Space 2006

Time Based Arts Festival, Portland, Oregon 2006

Edinburgh Festival, 2006

Joe’s Pub, New York City, 2006

 

“Red Tide Blooming”

Performance Space 122, New York City, 2006

 

“The Spider Opera”

(co-created with Liz Swados)

Mabou Mimes Suite, 2006

 

“Maurizio Pollini”

Blue Roses Theater Company, NYC, 2005

 

“Live Patriot Acts:  Patriots Gone Wiiiiild!”

Performance Space 122, 2004

 

“Cardiac Arrest or Venus on a Half-Clam”

FEZ, New York City, 2004

Galapagos Arts Center, 2004, 2005

HERE Arts Center, 2004

 

“The Face of Liberlism”

Galapagos Arts Center”, New York City 2003

HERE Arts Center, New York City2003

The Marquis, New York City 2003

The Slide, New York City, 2003

Bar None, Philadelphia, 2003

 

“Okay”

(Ensemble-version)

Ensemble Studio Theater Marathon, NYC, 2008

Spring Theater, NYC 2002

 

“Okay”

(Solo-version)

HERE Arts Center, 2002

 

“The Hot Month”

Boomerang Theater Company, NYC, 2002

 

“The Levee”

Vox Humana, Los Angeles, 2003

The Vital Theater Company, NYC 2002

Chashama, Oasis Festival, 2001

 

SOME OTHER VENUES

San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco Opera House, The Green Door, Irving Plaza, Caroline’s, The Joyce, Dance Theater Workshop, Three Legged Dog, The Supper Club, Dixon Place, Daryl Roth 2, Mo Pitkin’s, The Slipper Room, Monkey Town, New Dramatists, The Knitting Factory, The Zipper, The Cutting Room, Noche Dentate, The Speigletent (all sizes), CBGB’s,  The Cock, The Hole, The Slide, Splash Bar, Lincoln Center Public Library, The Flea, The West Bank, Center Stage, The Ohio, The Delancey, The Exit Gallery, Dumbolio, The Jean Cocteau Repertory, The Neighborhood Playhouse, The HOWL Festival in Tompkin’s Square Park, Coney’s Island’s Freak Show, Webster Hall, The Pyramid Club, The Culture Project, Bard College, The Florida Studio Theatre, Vermont’s Old Castle Theatre, The Sierra Repertory Theatre, D.C.’s 311 club, Philadelphia's Ethical Society, Club Fugazi, The Vauxhall Tavern, The Georgian Dragon, The Retro Bar, Underbelly, Assembly Rooms, BBC2, BBC4, MTV, The Sci-Fi Channel, and Channel 2 Sweden.

Photo by Luciean Samaha