AWARDS & HONORS (selected)

2024 ScreenCraft Film Fund Winner - 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