Awards & Recognition

• Neighborhood Bridges National Partner with Children’s Theatre Company (Minneapolis)
  

• 2011- Recipient of a prestigious Continuing Innovation Stage II grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

• 2011- selected participant in EmcArts’ Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts, a program generously funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

• 2010, 2009, 2007 & 2006 - National Endowment for the Arts Access to Artistic Excellence Grants for ASC shows 500 Clown Trapped, Katrina: The Girl Who Wanted Her Name Back, The Blue House, and Still Life with Iris)
  
  
• 2009 & 2008 - Broadway In Chicago Emerging Theater Award finalist

• 2009 - Ann Shaw Fellowship from Theatre for Young Audiences/USA

• 2008 - New Visions/New Voices Festival - Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington D.C.

• 2007 - Zeta Phi Eta Winifred Ward Award for Outstanding New Children’s Theatre Company (AATE)

• 2006, 2005 & 2004 - Kraft Art Discovery Grant Recipient

• 2005 - Americans for the Arts/National Arts Marketing Project Advance Training Program

• 2005 - Children’s Theatre Showcase - AATE National Conference, Chicago