| Guggenheim and six
NEA Fellowships (see below).
U.S. representative at dozens of
international theatre festivals.
Grant from the Creative Capital
Foundation to develop King Lear Project. 1999 - 2000.
Grant from the Henson Foundation
to develop King Lear Project . 1999 - 2000.
Feature articles in The Dallas
Morning News and The Dallas Observer. 2000.
"Outstanding Performance
Award" from the Dallas Theatre Critics’ Forum for A
Surprise Party. 1998.
Grant from USIS to perform and
teach at Festival International de Theatre Universitaire de
Casablanca (first American to perform in festival’s 11 year
history). 1998.
Work discussed in books, Masked
Performance by John Emigh and in Theater on the Edge by
Mel Gussow. 1998.
Orpheus in Hollywood: a Myth Mash
chosen by the Dallas Morning News theater critic Lawson
Taitte for "Top Ten of 1997."
Arts International Grant for
Travel to Journées Theatràles du Carthage Festival. 1997.
Cover story on Orpheus in
Hollywood in the Dallas Morning News "Weekend
Guide." 1997.
Radio interviews on
"Forum" (KQED, SF); "Curtain Call" (KCRB,
Sonoma County CA); "Art Matters" (WRR, Dallas). 1997.
Included in New York Times Sunday
Magazine article "Shakespeare in America" (with
photo). 1996.
Received grant from Arts
International to represent the U.S. at the Carthage
International Theatre Festival, Tunis, Tunisia. 1995.
Received grant from USIS for
travel to Tunisia to collaborate with director Tawfiq Jeballi.
1995.
Extended 11 week run of 3
original plays at The Odyssey Theater. Received "Critics
Choice" citations in all 5 Los Angeles newspapers and was
chosen as "Best Theater of the Week" by The Los
Angeles Times. 1995.
Performed at Gala Opening of the
New Victory Theater on Broadway, 1995.
STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON
received six awards from The Austin Circle of Theatres: Best
Production, Actor, Original Script, Light Design, Costumes,
Props. 1994.
NEA Special Projects/Individuals
Grant to create ABEL AND CAIN: a Biblical Debacle in
collaboration with Daniel and Paule Stein. 1993-94.
STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON
chosen as Best Theatre Performance of 1993 by Robert Faires,
critic of the Austin Chronicle.
Called "a Texas genius"
in a weekend cover story by Michael Barnes, theater critic of
the Austin American Statesman. 1993.
U.S. Representative to perform at
Festival Mundial Teatro de las Naciones, Santiago, Chile.
Received Arts America Touring Grant. 1993.
U.S.I.S. funding to perform at
Festival du Carthage, Tunis. 1993.
"Laughing Waters"
chosen as Children's Album of the Year by Parents Choice
Magazine. 1993.
U.S. Representative - First
American ever to perform at Festival du Carthage, the
pre-eminent African Theatre Festival. USIS Funding. 1993.
Dallas Theatre Critics' Forum
"Outstanding Performance Award" for WHAT FOOLS
THESE MORTALS BE. 1992.
WHAT FOOLS... selected
by both Dallas Morning News theater critics for their
"Top Ten of 1992" lists.
WHAT FOOLS...
cited by Dallas Morning News critic Jerome Weeks as one
of his "all-time favorites" and STUFF... cited
as his "number one favorite performance" in six years
of reviewing in Dallas. 1992.
Voted "Best Performance
Artist" by the Dallas Observer Readers' Poll. 1992.
Selected to represent the U.S. at
the Theatre of Nations Festival in Santiago, Chile. 1993.
Funding for tour to Montevideo by
Arts International. 1992.
GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP.
1991-92.
Jury member, International
Festival of Solo Theatre and Mime, Belgrade. 1991.
Resident Artist - American
College Theatre Festival; Sonoma State University, California.
1991.
American Theatre Wing Award for
Design of Stuff As Dreams Are Made On. 1990.
Gold Medal, International
Festival of Solo Theatre, Belgrade, for Stuff... 1990.
U.S.I.A. Funding for tour of
Yugoslavia. 1990.
National Endowment for the Arts,
Solo Performance Fellowships. 1991; 1990; 1989; 1987.
NEA Inter-Arts Grant to create Cain
and Abel with Daniel Stein at The Theatre Project,
Baltimore. 1989-1990.
NEA Theatre Special Project Grant
to create and perform Sexual Mythology part 2: Purgatory
and part 3: Heaven. 1989-1991.
The University of Texas Research
Grant for developing new work. 1989.
NEA Theatre Special Project Grant
to create and perform Sexual Mythology part 1: The Underworld
at Movement Theatre International. Additional funding from the
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. 1989.
Works cited as "Critics
Choice" by the major Dallas newspapers:
Sexual Mythology part 3: HEAVEN - or - The Big Talk Show, Sexual
Mythology part 2: Purgatory, Sexual Mythology part 1: The
Underworld, Stuff As Dreams Are Made On, Inquest for Freddy
Chickan, Fred Breaks Bread with the Dead, Uncle Vanya.
Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
selected as one of the "ten most noteworthy theatre
productions of 1989" by Mel Gussow, The New York Times.
1989.
Feature on work aired nationally
on NPR's "Morning Edition." 1989.
Sexual Mythology part 1: The
Underworld selected by Dallas
Observer Readers' Poll as "Most Daring and Courageous
Theatre Production of 1989."
Board of Advisors, International
Movement Theatre Festival, Philadelphia. 1989-1992.
"Special Award" for Inquest
for Freddy Chickan and for Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
from the Dallas Theatre Critics Forum. 1987.
Outstanding Achievement Award
from the S.F. Chronicle for Fred Breaks Bread with the Dead.
1985.
Hollywood Dramalogue Award for Stuff
As Dreams Are Made On. 1983.
Bay Area Critics Award for
Incarnation. 1982.
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