AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music (Silent Night)
Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording (The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs)
The National Opera Association's 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award
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)
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
Three-Time Hermitage Artists Retreat Fellow