Honors and Awards (selected)
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities (2016-17)
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting/Screenwriting (2016)
The Geri Ashur Screenwriting Award, NYFA (2016)
Inaugural "Community Fellow," University at Albany Institute for History and Public Engagement (2016-17)
Guest Artist, John F. Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive (2017, 2016, 2010, 2011)
University at Albany President's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities (2016)
"Best Writing Team," SAFTA (South African Film & Television), for Inside Story (2014)
Selection for U.S. Documentary Competition, 2012 Sundance Film Festival, for Slavery by Another Name (2011)
Semi-finalist, 2011 Ashland Festival of New Plays, for Leaving Ibsen (2011)
Finalist, Christopher Brian Wolk Playwriting Award, for Leaving Ibsen (2010)
Strategic Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts (2010)
New York Council for the Humanities mini-grant for Louisa May Alcott: In Print and On Screen (2010)
Faculty Research Award Program Grant, University at Albany, for Global Storytelling (2009)
CPB/PBS Producers Academy Fellowship (2001)
Finalist, Nantucket Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, for Ibsen & Laura (1998)
CINE Golden Eagle, for:
School: The Story of American Public Education (2001)
Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More (Eyes on the Prize II (1990)
The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific (1983)
Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians, for:
I’ll Make Me a World: A Century of African-American Arts (1999)
America’s War on Poverty (1996)
Eyes on the Prize II (1990)
George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, for:
I’ll Make Me a World (1999)
Eyes on the Prize II (1990)
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, for:
America’s War on Poverty (1996)
Eyes on the Prize II (1991)
Golden Gate Award, San Francisco Film Society, for School
Silver Hugo Award - Writing, Chicago International Television Competition, for School
Artist fellowship, MacDowell Colony for the Creative Arts, Peterborough, NH (1995 and 1992)
Artist fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, Va. (1994)
National Emmy Award for Excellence in a Craft: Writing (News and Documentary), for Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More, episode 11 of Eyes on the Prize II (1990)
Pan-African Film Festival (2012): Slavery by Another Name, Inside Story
Council on Foundations 45th Film and Video Festival (2012): Bad Blood
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting/Screenwriting (2016)
The Geri Ashur Screenwriting Award, NYFA (2016)
Inaugural "Community Fellow," University at Albany Institute for History and Public Engagement (2016-17)
Guest Artist, John F. Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive (2017, 2016, 2010, 2011)
University at Albany President's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities (2016)
"Best Writing Team," SAFTA (South African Film & Television), for Inside Story (2014)
Selection for U.S. Documentary Competition, 2012 Sundance Film Festival, for Slavery by Another Name (2011)
Semi-finalist, 2011 Ashland Festival of New Plays, for Leaving Ibsen (2011)
Finalist, Christopher Brian Wolk Playwriting Award, for Leaving Ibsen (2010)
Strategic Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts (2010)
New York Council for the Humanities mini-grant for Louisa May Alcott: In Print and On Screen (2010)
Faculty Research Award Program Grant, University at Albany, for Global Storytelling (2009)
CPB/PBS Producers Academy Fellowship (2001)
Finalist, Nantucket Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, for Ibsen & Laura (1998)
CINE Golden Eagle, for:
School: The Story of American Public Education (2001)
Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More (Eyes on the Prize II (1990)
The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific (1983)
Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians, for:
I’ll Make Me a World: A Century of African-American Arts (1999)
America’s War on Poverty (1996)
Eyes on the Prize II (1990)
George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, for:
I’ll Make Me a World (1999)
Eyes on the Prize II (1990)
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, for:
America’s War on Poverty (1996)
Eyes on the Prize II (1991)
Golden Gate Award, San Francisco Film Society, for School
Silver Hugo Award - Writing, Chicago International Television Competition, for School
Artist fellowship, MacDowell Colony for the Creative Arts, Peterborough, NH (1995 and 1992)
Artist fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, Va. (1994)
National Emmy Award for Excellence in a Craft: Writing (News and Documentary), for Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More, episode 11 of Eyes on the Prize II (1990)
Pan-African Film Festival (2012): Slavery by Another Name, Inside Story
Council on Foundations 45th Film and Video Festival (2012): Bad Blood