Awards
Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline – 2008
Hadassah Myrtle Wreath Award – 2006
National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Grant – 1998; 2003
Helen Eisner Award for Young Playwrights – 1998 (for Proverbial Human Suffering)
Davie Award for New Plays – 1990 (for Oh, The Innocents)
Avery Hopwood Award for Drama – 1981 (for Necessities); 1982 (for The Red Guitar and A Spiral Weld)
Named in 2009 as one of the Forward 50 (“a list of fifty Jewish-Americans ‘who have made a significant impact on the Jewish story in the past year,’ published annually as an editorial opinion of The Forward newspaper since 1994.”)
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