Directing Awards

National Recognition

  • Finalist: Alan Schneider Award, TCG, 2018
  • Featured: “Person to Watch,” American Theatre Magazine, 2018
  • Finalist: NNPN National Directors Fellowship, 2015

B. Iden Payne Awards (Austin)

  • Winner
    • Outstanding Direction of Edited Digital Content (with Melissa Vogt), The VORTEX Odyssey: Underworld (2021)
    • Outstanding Direction of Theatre for Youth, Yana Wana’s Legend of the Bluebonnet (2020)
    • Outstanding Direction of a Drama, (Un)Documents (2018)
    • Outstanding Direction of a Comedy, The Revolutionists (2017)
    • Outstanding Direction of a Drama, Terminus (2016)
    • Outstanding Direction of Music Theatre, Sing Muse (2013)
    • Outstanding Direction of a Comedy, Qualities of Starlight (2013)
    • Outstanding Direction of Theatre for Youth, The Physicists (2011)
  • Nominee:
    • Outstanding Direction of Theatre for Youth (with Marcus McQuirter), Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven (2021)
    • Outstanding Direction of Edited Digital Content, “Life Reloaded” from The CoviDecameron (2020)
    • Outstanding Direction of a Drama, Mas Cara (2019)
    • Outstanding Direction of a Comedy, Agent Andromeda: The Orion Crusade (2016)
    • Outstanding Direction of a Comedy, Midsummer in Motion (2012)

Austin Critics Table

  • Winner: Excellence in Directing, (Un)Documents, Heartland, Last: An Extinction Comedy (2019)
  • Nominee:
    • Excellence in Directing, The Revolutionists, Storm Still, Wild Horses, The Way She Spoke (2018)
    • Excellence in Directing, A Perfect Robot (2017)
    • Excellence in Directing, Qualities of Starlight (2013)

Directing Credits

Full Productions:

  • UnDocuments, Latino Theater Company, Los Angeles, 2022
  • ReWritten, Herman Melville’s Arrowhead, Lenox, MA, 2021 & 2022
  • Theatre for One, “Lizzy” and “Before America Was America,” Signature Theater & Octopus Theatricals,  New York, 2022.
  • Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven, The VORTEX, Austin, 2021. NNPN Rolling World Premiere.
  • UnDocuments, Teatro Audaz, San Antonio, 2021. 
  • Alabaster, Shrewd Productions, Austin 2020. NNPN Rolling World Premiere.
  • Click, The VORTEX, Austin, 2020.
  • Mas Cara, The VORTEX, Austin, 2019. World Premiere.
  • Yana Wana’s Legend of the Bluebonnet, Teatro Vivo and the Indigenous Cultures Institute, Austin, 2019. 
  • The Mamalogues, Color Arc Productions, Austin, 2019. World Premiere.
  • Last: An Extinction Comedy, The VORTEX, Austin, 2019. World Premiere.
  • Heartland, The VORTEX, Austin, 2019. NNPN Rolling World Premiere.
  • UnDocuments, The VORTEX, Austin, 2018. World Premiere.
  • The Way She Spoke, The VORTEX, Austin, 2018.
  • Wild Horses, The VORTEX, Austin, 2017. NNPN Rolling World Premiere.
  • Storm Still, The VORTEX, Austin, 2017.
  • The Revolutionists, Shrewd Productions, 2017.
  • Underground, The VORTEX, Austin, 2017. World Premiere.
  • A Perfect Robot, The VORTEX, Austin, 2017. World Premiere.
  • Agent Andromeda: The Orion Crusade, Sky Candy Aerial Arts, Austin, 2016. World Premiere.
  • Hold Me Well, Shrewd Productions, Austin, 2016. World Premiere.
  • Rocky and Rhoda’s Lesbian Past, Dixon Place, New York, 2016.
  • Terminus, The VORTEX, Austin, 2016. World Premiere.
  • El Nogalar, Teatro Vivo, Austin, 2015.
  • Emma When You Need Her, The VORTEX, Austin, 2015. World Premiere.
  • Changelings, The VORTEX, Austin, 2015. World Premiere.
  • Still Now, Shrewd Productions, Austin, 2014. World Premiere.
  • Cosmicomics, Sky Candy Aerial Arts, Austin, 2014. World Premiere.
  • Stars and Barmen, The VORTEX, Austin, 2013. World Premiere.
  • Sing Muse, The VORTEX, Austin, 2013. World Premiere.
  • Qualities of Starlight, The VORTEX, Austin, 2013.
  • Midsummer in Motion, Austin Bike Zoo, 2012.
  • The Physicists, The VORTEX, Austin, 2011.
  • Lear, The VORTEX, Austin, 2011.
  • Cardigan, Purple Crayon Productions, Austin 2011.
  • Wheels of Wonderland, Austin Bike Zoo, 2009. 

Online Productions:

  • The VORTEX Odyssey: Underground (with Melissa Vogt), The VORTEX, Austin, 2020
  • The Covidecameron, The VORTEX, Austin, 2020.

Readings and Development:

  • The Prince & the Painter, Moonbox Productions, Boston, 2022.
  • Pericles (Adaptation), Red Bull Theater, New York, 2021. 
  • Dreaming On the Virtual Stage: Readings of Plays in Progress, New York Theatre Workshop, National Queer Theater and PEN America, New York, 2021.
  • The Calling, San Antonio Public Theatre, 2020.
  • Underground, San Antonio Public Theatre, 2020. 
  • Click, Strange Sun Theatre, NYC, 2020.
  • Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven, The Parsnip Ship, NYC, 2017. 
  • Something Quiet, Playwrights Center, Minneapolis, 2015.
  • Something Quiet, The Lark, NYC, 2014.