Awards
All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
Drama Desk Award, Unique Theatrical Experience, 2019
Five Points
MN Theater Award, Exceptional New Work, 2018
25 Best of 2018, MINNPost, 2018
Assassins
No. 1 in Top 10 Productions, Star Tribune, 2018
Ragtime
IVEY Award Overall Excellence, 2017
Six Degrees of Separation
IVEY Award, Production Design & Execution, 2017
Peter and the Starcatcher
Best Production, Lavender Magazine, 2017
Best Director, 2015
City Pages
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Top 10 Productions, 2016, Star Tribune
Best Musical of the Year, 2016, City Pages
Artist of the Year, 2015
Star Tribune
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The 5 Biggest Moments in the Arts in 2015, Minnpost
Cabaret
IVEY Award Overall Excellence, 2014
Best Musical of 2014, Minnesota Monthly
Best Director, 2014
City Pages
Community Award, 2014
Lavender Magazine
The American Theatre Wing National Theatre Company Award, 2013
Other Desert Cities, Guthrie Theater
Top Ten Productions of 2013, Star Tribune
Top Ten Productions of 2013, Lavender Magazine
2013 Minnesota State Arts Board, Artist Initiative Award
Spring Awakening, Theater Latté Da and the University of Minnesota
2012 IVEY Award for Overall Excellence
Best Musical of 2012, City Pages
Best of 2011–12, Minnesota Playlist
Top Ten Productions of 2012, Lavender Magazine
2011 Minnesota Artist of the Year
Honorable Mention, Star Tribune
Doubt , Ten Thousand Things
Best Production of 2011, Star Tribune
Top Ten Productions of 2011, City Pages
2011 IVEY Award for Outstanding Theater Production
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Theater Latté Da
Top Ten Productions of 2011, Star Tribune
Annie, Children's Theatre Company
Top Ten Productions of 2011, Star Tribune
2011 Minnesota State Arts Board
Artist Initiative Award
Best Theater in the Twin Cities, 2010, Theater Latté Da
City Pages
Best Director in the Twin Cities, 2010
City Pages
Theater Artist of 2010
Lavender Magazine
Evita, Theater Latté Da, Ordway Center
Top Ten Productions of 2010, Lavender Magazine
Violet, Theater Latté Da, Guthrie Theater
Top Ten Productions of 2010, City Pages
All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
2010 Gabriel Award for Broadcast Excellence
Gold World Medal at the 2010 New York Festivals, 2010
The Full Monty, Theater Latté Da and the Ordway Center
Best Musical of 2009, Star Tribune
Passage of Dreams, Theater Latté Da
Top Ten Productions of 2009, City Pages
Career Development Program for Directors (2007–09)
National Endowment for the Arts, Theater Communications Group
Old Wicked Songs, Theater Latté Da
Best Play of 2009, Star Tribune
Parade, Theater Latté Da and Minnesota Jewish Theatre
Top Ten Productions of 2008, Star Tribune
Once on this Island, Ten Thousand Things
Top Ten Productions of 2008, Pioneer Press
Private Lives, Guthrie Theater
Best Director of a Play, 2007, Star Tribune
Best Play, 2007, Star Tribune
Top Ten Productions of the Year, 2007, City Pages
Theater Artist of 2007
Lavender Magazine
La Bohème, Theater Latté Da
Best Opera Production of 2007, City Pages
2007 Minnesota Artist of the Year
Honorable Mention, Star Tribune
Best Director of 2006
City Pages
Gypsy, Theater Latté Da
Best Director of a Musical, 2006, Star Tribune
Best Musical, 2006, Star Tribune
Top Ten Productions of the Year, 2006, Pioneer Press
KNOCK!, Theater Latté Da
2006 IVEY Award for Outstanding
Theater Production
La Bohème, Theater Latté Da
Best Musical of 2005, Star Tribune
2005 IVEY Award for Outstanding Theater Production
2004–2005 McKnight Foundation, Playrights' Center Theater Artist Fellowship
2004 Minnesota State Arts Board
Artist Initiative Award
A Man of No Importance, Theater Latté Da
Best Theater Production of 2004
Lavender Magazine
KNOCK!, Theater Latté Da
Best Comedy of 2004, City Pages
Best of the Fringe 2004
Sunday in the Park with George, Theater Latté Da
Best Theater Production of 2003
City Pages
2001 Minnesota Artist of the Year
Honorable Mention, Star Tribune
The Death of Bessie Smith, Theater Latté Da
Top Ten Productions of 2001, City Pages
Two Weeks with the Queen, Illusion Theater
Top Ten Productions of 2000, City Pages
Oh &#!%, I’m Turning Into My Mother, Theater Latté Da
Best New Work of 1999, Lavender Magazine
