Stephen Sachs - Awards

Awards

Sachs has won every major theatre award in Los Angeles and is the only director in Los Angeles to have won the Ovation Award (L.A.’s version of the Tony Award) for Best Director of a Play twice.

as Director

• 2009 Zelda Fichandler Award - SSDC Foundation, to recognize an outstanding director who is making a unique and exceptional contribution to the theatre in their region. (nomination)

• Best Director, 2009 (Coming Home) - LA Weekly Award
• Best Director, 2008 (Victory) - NAACP Theatre Award
• Best Director, 2005 (Exits and Entrances) – Carbonell Award nomination, Florida
• Best Director, 2004 (Exits and Entrances) - Ovation Award, Los Angeles
• Best Director, 2004 (Exits and Entrances) - Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award
• Best Director, 2004 (Exits and Entrances) - L.A. Weekly Award nomination
• Best Director, 2004 (Exits and Entrances) - Maddy Award, Los Angeles
• Best Director, 2003 (Sweet Nothing in my Ear) - Minneapolis
• Best Director, 2002 (After the Fall) - Maddy Award
• Best Director, 2002 (After the Fall) - Ovation Award
• Best Director, 2000 (The Road to Mecca) - Maddy Award
• Best Director, 2000 (The Road to Mecca) - Robby Award nominee
• Best Director, 1996 (Lonely Planet) - Robby Award nominee
• Best Director, 1994 (‘Night Mother) Drama-Logue Award
• Best Director, 1994 (Ashes) Drama-Logue Award
• Best Director, 1993 (The Seagull) Drama-Logue Award
• Best Director, 1992 (Cuckoo’s Nest) Drama-Logue Award
• Best Director, 1991 (Fanon’s People) Drama-Logue Award
• Best Director, 1990 (Golden Gate) Drama-Logue Award

as Playwright

• Best Adaptation, 2007, (Miss Julie) Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nomination
• Best Adaptation, 2007, (Miss Julie) L.A. Weekly Theatre Award nomination
• Media Access Award for Theatre Excellence (Open Window)
• Finalist, 2001 (Central Avenue) PEN West Literary Award for Drama
• Finalist, 1998 (Sweet Nothing in my Ear) PEN West Literary Award for Drama
• Best Play, 2001 (Central Avenue) Back Stage Garland Award
• Best Play, 2001 (Central Avenue) Beverly Press Maddy Award
• Best Play, 1999 (Mother's Day) Garland Award Honorable Mention
• Best Playwright, 1990 (Golden Gate) Drama-Logue Award
• California Governor’s Media Access Award for Theatre, 1997 (Sweet Nothing in my Ear)
• Citation of Appreciation, 1996, Los Angeles City Council for "enhancing the cultural life of the City of Los Angeles"

For his work as director and playwright, Sachs has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, American Theatre Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Back Stage, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, L.A. Stage Magazine, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, and National Public Radio.