Awards & Grants

 

2023    Ursinus College College Innovation Grant Recipient: The Ursinus Academy: A Lifelong Learning Initiative (with Paul 

              Stern & Sheryl Goodman)
 

2015     University of Southern Maine Faculty Senate Professional Development Award for Scholarship

 

2015     Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Regional Merit Award for "Outstanding Work in All Areas of                         Production: Directing, Design, Choreography, Music Direction, Stage Management, Dramaturgy, Ensemble                                 Performance, and Academic Programming” for In the Underworld: A darkly comic operetta

 

2015     Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Regional Merit Award for "Excellence in Ensemble Style                                 Execution" for The Well of Horniness

 

2014     Kathleen I. MacPherson Outstanding Feminist Faculty Award for Excellence in Feminist Scholarship, Teaching, &                     Service

 

2014     University of Southern Maine Faculty Senate Award for Scholarship, Arts Division

 

2014     University of Southern Maine Outstanding Event Award Nominee for Remembering the Holocaust: A Community                     Discussion [coordinator]

 

2014     University of Southern Maine Outstanding Faculty Involvement Award Nominee

 

2013     University of Southern Maine Outstanding Faculty Involvement Award Nominee

 

2013     University of Southern Maine Outstanding Faculty Involvement Award Nominee

 

2012     Maine Literary Award for Best Anthology (sponsored by the Maine Writers and Publishers Literary Alliance) for Add                 Verb Productions/University of New England’s Out & Allied: An Anthology of Performance Pieces Written by LGBTQ               Youth and Allies, Volume 1 [co-editor, playwright, & essayist]

 

2012     University of Southern Maine Outstanding Event Award Nominee for Performances from the [Un]Spoken Maine                       Project [director & project coordinator]

 

2011     University of Southern Maine Faculty Senate Award for Service, Arts Division

 

2011     University of Southern Maine Outstanding Faculty Involvement Award Nominee

 

2011     University of Southern Maine Faculty Professional Development Grant

 

2010     University of Southern Maine Outstanding Faculty Involvement Award Recipient

 

2005     Cornell University Graduate Student Conference Grant

 

2005     Worman Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in Theatre

 

2004     Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines Mentorship Grant

 

2003     Beatrice Brown Award for Research in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

 

2003     Cornell University Graduate Student Conference Grant

 

2002     Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines Peer Collaboration Grant

 

2000-2010     Sage Fellowship, Cornell University

 

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