He has won many theater awards for directing such plays as the Los Angeles premiere of Fugard’s "The Road to Mecca", "After the Fall", the West Coast premiere of "String of Pearls", "Sweet Nothing in my Ear" (Fountain Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis), the LA premiere of Steven Dietz’s "Lonely Planet" (starring Philip Anglim), "The Seagull" (starring Salome Jens, Philip Baker Hall and Bud Cort), the celebrated 20th Anniversary production of "The Boys in the Band", the west coast premiere of Rommulus Linney’s "Unchanging Love", and many others.