Awards & Recognition

Ongoing

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

2012

• Recipient of the Illinois Theatre Association’s Award of Excellence in Theatre for Young Audiences

2011

• Continuing Innovation Stage II grant Recipient from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

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

2010

• National Endowment for the Arts Access to Artistic Excellence Grant for 500 Clown Trapped

2009

• National Endowment for the Arts Access to Artistic Excellence Grant for Katrina: The Girl Who Wanted Her Name Back

• Broadway In Chicago Emerging Theater Award finalist

2008

• Selected participant in the New Visions/New Voices Festival - Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington D.C.

• Broadway In Chicago Emerging Theater Award finalist

2007

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

• National Endowment for the Arts Access to Artistic Excellence Grant for The Blue House

2006

• National Endowment for the Arts Access to Artistic Excellence Grant for Still Life with Iris

• Kraft Art Discovery Grant Recipient

2005

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

• Kraft Art Discovery Grant Recipient

2004

• Kraft Art Discovery Grant Recipient