Winner Screenplay of the Month TriggerStreet.com - 2010
Finalist Scriptapalooza TV (Mad Men spec with Maria Paola Chironi) - 2010
Finalist Rod Serling Award - 2009
Top 10% Nicholl Fellowship - 2008 and 2017 (with Maria Paola Chironi)
Winner 5th Annual Pitch Competition at Austin Film Festival - 2007
Certification from the Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA - 2007
Winner of Two Actors' Choice Awards at the Screenwriters' Conference in Santa Fe - 2006
MA Humanities Aesthetics with an emphasis in writing University of Texas at Dallas - 2003