2012 -
Inaugural Doris Duke Artists awarded an unrestricted, multi-year cash grant

2011 -
Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance: Cedille Records, Lonely Motel

2010 -
Three Grammy nominations for Dream House directed by Gil Rose - Best Classical Album, Best Orchestral Performance and Best Engineered Album, Classical

2009 -
Alpert Award in the Arts, Theatre

2008 -
Drama Desk Award Nomination – Best Play (Horizon)
Lucille Lortel Award - "Unique Theatrical Experience” (Horizon)

2007 -
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama (Orpheus X)
Guggenheim Fellowship

2005 -
American Academy of Arts & Letters: Marc Blitzstein Award
(Four Songs Lost in a Wall and Highway Ulysses)

2004 -
Meet the Composer Award to compose / write a new play for American Repertory Theatre

2003 -
Eliot Norton Award, Boston - Best Production by a Large Resident Company (Highway Ulysses)
American Repertory Theatre

2000 -
Drama Desk Award Nomination (And God Created Great Whales)
Obie Award (And God Created Great Whales)

1998 -
Drama Desk Award Nomination - Sound Design (Therese Raquin)

1989 -
Isadora Duncan Award-Best Text and Music Score (Dry Land Divine)
The Esquire Register Arts and Letters Award, Esquire Magazine

1988 -
Isadora Duncan Award-Best Text and Music Score (Shelf Life)
Critics Circle Award-Best Solo Performance (Slow Fire)
Academy Of Theatre Artists and Friends, Chicago-Best Production (Not For Real)

1987 -
Critics Circle Award, San Francisco - Best New Theater Performance (Not For Real