AWARDS & HONORS (selected)
2024 ScreenCraft Film Fund Finalist - La Serenata (feature film screenplay w/Ernesto J. Martínez)
2022 Outfest Notable Writer - La Serenata (feature film screenplay w/Ernesto J. Martínez)
2022 Semi-finalist Final Draft Big Break - La Serenata (feature film screenplay w/Ernesto J. Martínez)
2022 Official Selection NALIP Latino Media Market - La Serenata (feature film screenplay w/Ernesto J. Martínez)
2022 Semi-finalist WeScreenplay Diverse Voices - La Serenata (feature film screenplay w/Ernesto J. Martínez)
2022 Quarterfinalist ScreenCraft Feature Competition - La Serenata (feature film screenplay w/Ernesto J. Martínez)
2022 Semi-finalist Almanack Episodic Lab - Harvest: Seeds of Humanity
2021 HBO Max Pa’Lante! Promise / WarnerMedia OneFifty Artist
2019 Art Matters Foundation Award
2019 Invited Playwright for the Center Theater Group L.A. Writers’ Workshop
2019 HBO Latinx Film Competition Winner
2019 Imagen Award – La Serenata (director)
2018 Latino Public Broadcasting Public Media Content Fund Award Winner – Ode to Pablo
2017 Imagen Award - Amigas with Benefits (writer/director)
2017 UCSB Lavender Graduation Keynote Speaker
2017 Latino Public Broadcasting Public Media Content Fund Award Winner – Amigas with Benefits
2016 UCLA Raza Graduation Keynote Speaker
2015 Lambda Literary Finalist in LGBT Drama – The Beast of Times
2014 UCSB Raza Graduation Keynote Speaker
2014 Lambda Literary Finalist in LGBT Drama – Las Hociconas
2013 Cal Poly Pomona Lavender Graduation Keynote Speaker
2013 Film Independent & Sony Pictures Diversity Fellowship – Bruising for Besos
2013 Sundance Intensive Writer’s Workshop – Bruising for Besos
2013 2nd nomination in Theatre for the Alpert Award in the Arts
2010 National Performance Network Creation Fund Award - The Beast of Times
2010 Co-awarded the Sandra Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award
2010 L.A. Weekly Theatre Award nomination for Best Solo Performance - Bruising for Besos
2009 Awarded an Artist-in-Residence grant by City of Los Angeles to conduct Teatro Q Workshops
2009 Nominated in Theatre for the Alpert Award in the Arts
2008 Awarded an Artist-in-Residence grant by City of Los Angeles to conduct Teatro Q Workshops
2008 Awarded the LACE Award in Arts & Entertainment by the LA LGBT Center
2008 Awarded Best Solo Performance by Premios Sin Limite (NYC) - Mastering Sex & Tortillas!
2007 Awarded the Los Angeles C.O.L.A. Fellowship in Solo Performance
2007 Awarded an Artist-in-Residence grant by the City of Los Angeles to conduct Teatro Q Workshops
2007 Awarded Best Latino Solo Performance - NYC - Mastering Sex & Tortillas!
2005 Visual Digital Art selected for Hijas de Coyolxauhqui Exhibit/National Queer Arts Festival
2003 PEN USA Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellow
2002 Named one of the top National Queer Activist of the Year by Tentaciones Magazine
2002 Awarded an Astraea Lesbian Foundation grant to work with Queer and Immigrant Youth (MY LUCHA)
2001 Nominated for a Leon Rabin Award in Lead Actress category, Cara Mia Theatre Co. & Soul Rep’s - The Hungry Woman; A Mexican Medea
2001 Best Theater Director by the Dallas Observer - The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea
2001 Best Productions of the Year (Top Ten) by the Dallas Morning News - The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea
1999 Nominated for a Geoffrey Award in Best Actress category, Santa Monica Theatre Guild’s - Latins Anonymous