Professional Fellowships

• Envision Theatre Lab at Bard College, Voice and Vision Theatre, July 2005 for play The Fairy Queen.
• Southern Circuit (annual program of the South Carolina Arts Commission supporting independent filmmakers and providing them the opportunity to travel throughout the Southeast to screen their films to new audiences), September 2003, for Searching for Paradise.
• Sundance Institute Directing Lab, June 1998, for feature screenplay Searching for Paradise.
  
• MacDowell Colony, March-April 1998, for play The Fairy Queen.
  
• Sundance Institute Screenwriting Lab, January 1998, for Searching for Paradise.

Film Awards:

Searching for Paradise:

• Grand Prize – Best Feature Film, Festival du Cinema Americain Independent d’Agen, France
  
• Kodak Award for Cinematography, Hamptons International Film Festival
  
• Rising Star Award (Susan May Pratt), Hamptons Int’l Film Festival
  
• Best Actress Award, Milan International Film Festival

Girls Night Out:

• Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival, 1997
  
• Silver Award, Worldfest-Charlston/Charlston International Film Festival, 1997
  
• Jury Award, New York Exposition of Short Film and Video, 1997

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• Best Student Film, Hamptons International Film Festival, 1994
  
• Director's Choice, Atlanta Film and Video Festival, 1994
  
• Jurors' Choice Award, Charlotte Film and Video Festival, 1994
  
• New York University Craft Awards for Excellence in Filmmaking, Sound Design, Best Actress  (Elzbieta Czyzewska), and the Nestor Almendros Award for Cinematography, 1994

Transeltown

• Honorable Mention, Best Experimental Short,  Atlanta Film and Video Festival, 1993
  
• Jury Prize for Best Experimental Short, Chicago Filmmakers and 12th Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival, 1992
  
• New York University Craft Awards for Excellence in Filmmaking, Art Direction, Sound Design, Editing, and Musical Score,  1992.

Advertising Awards:

• Communication Arts for Preppy Girl LIFEbeat p.s.a.,  March1996.
  
• Silver Plaque for Jerky Boys 2 Atlantic Records spot at the 31st Chicago International Film Festival Television Commercial Competition, October 1995.

Educational Awards

• Winner of New York University GFTV Excellence in Screenwriting Award

• Yale University, Bachelor of Arts, May 1988. ( Major: History ) Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
  
• Andrew D. White Prize for senior thesis, “Janet Flanner and Her Circle: Women in Paris between the Wars.”

• Robert E. Bates Fellowship to study fourteenth century Jewish and Muslim criminal cases at the Archivio General de la Corona de Aragon.