2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music (Silent Night)

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Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording (The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs)

 

The National Opera Association's 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award 

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New York State Council of the Arts Award (Today It Rains)

 

First recipient of the Kleban Foundation Award for Lyricist (panel headed by Stephen Sondheim)

 

Dominic J. Peliciotti Opera Award (A Letter to East 11th Street)

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GRAMMY Award nomination Best Opera Recording (Volpone)

 

Three Drama Desk Award nominations (Splendora, The Audience, Songs from an Unmade Bed)

 

Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award

 

New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship

 

Two Richard Rodgers Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

 

Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund Grant

 

Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Alumnus,

 

Sundance Institute at Ucross Writer's Retreat

 

Three-Time MacDowell Artists Colony Fellow

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Three-Time Hermitage Artists Retreat Fellow