• Self-Directed Residency at the Banff Centre to work on The Stage That Made Us, 2012
  • Residency at the Banff playRites Colony, 2006, to work on The Knowing Bird
  • Selected for inclusion in Theatre 100, (an Alberta Playwright’s Network publication), as one of the 100 theatre practitioners over the past century who have made a significant and lasting contribution to Alberta’s theatrical heritage.
  • Inducted to University of Lethbridge Alumni Honour Society, 2006
  • The Knowing Bird, finalist in 2005 Herman Voaden Canadian National Playwrighting Competition (Sponsored by Queen’s University)
  • University of Lethbridge Study Leave 2004-2005
  • Commissioning Grant from Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Workshop West Theatre (Edmonton) to write new play (working title Scat), 2005
  • Residency at the Banff playRites Colony, 2002, completed first draft of 17 Dogs
  • Betty Mitchell Award Nomination: Marg Szkaluba (Pissy's Wife) Best Musical Production in Calgary 2000-2001 (Mighty Pacer Productions)
  • Betty Mitchell Award Nomination: Respectable Best New Play in Calgary 2000-2001
  • Residency at the Banff playRites Colony, 2000, to work on Respectable
  • Residency at the Banff playRites Colony, 1999, to work on Respectable
  • Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Three Really Nasty Plays, Writers Guild of Alberta, 1998
  • Commissioning Grant for Respectable, Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Theatre Network, Edmonton, 1997
  • Alberta Foundation for the Arts Intermediate Writers Grant for The Dead Box, 1996
  • Sterling Award Nomination: Dirt.  Best New Play in Edmonton 1995-1996
  • Sterling Award Nomination: Marg Szkaluba (Pissy’s Wife) Best New Play in Edmonton, 1993-1994
  • Pretty Blue Alberta Culture Playwrighting Award, 1993
  • You Are Finalist, Canadian National Playwrighting Competition, 1993
  • Travel Grant for Contextual Research of J.M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World in Ireland, 1987
  • Peter Ustinov Scholarship in Dramatic Arts, University of Lethbridge, 1984
  • Agnes Turcotte Memorial Scholarship, University of  Lethbridge, 1983
  • Dean of Arts and Science Honor List, University of Lethbridge, Spring 1983
  • Dean of Arts and Science Honor List, University of Lethbridge, Fall 1983