2025
Longlist: Theatre503 International Playwriting Award (near)
2024
Shortlist: Yale Drama Prize (Arkansas)
2023 / 2024
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– WINNER, Best Micro Short Film: Fisheye Film Festival 2024
– WINNER, Best Five-Minute Film: Bright International Film Festival, Aug-Sept 2023
– Finalist: Best Micro Short: Moonrise Film Festival 2023
– Finalist: Best Dark Drama Film: Austin Micro Film Festival 2024
– Official Selection: Grimmfest 2023
– Official Selection: Crystal Palace International Film Festival 2024
– Official Selection: Atlanta Micro Short Film Festival 2024
– Official Selection: Hastings Rocks International Film Festival 2024
– Official Selection: Pittsburgh Independent Film Festival 2024
2022
Top 20%: Verity Bargate Award (Sighte)
2nd Round: Papatango Prize (Sighte)
2018
Longlist: Flux presents: Emerge (Ivy Reach)
2017
Longlist: Verity Bargate Award / Character 7 Prize (Ivy Reach)
Longlist: Papatango Prize (Ivy Reach)
2016
PlayWROUGHT #4, Arcola Theatre (Arkansas)
Finalist: Create50’s Twisted 50 (Hole)
2015
Longlist: Adrian Pagan Award (Beneath)
Longlist: The Old Vic 12
2014
Longlist: Channel 4 / Touchpaper TV Coming Up
Longlist: Old Vic New Voices TS Eliot Commissions
2013
Longlist: Bruntwood Prize (Arkansas)
Longlist: Verity Bargate Award (Arkansas)
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