Valeria Vasilevski Awards, Prizes, Fellowships, and Residencies	Writer/Director for The True Last Words of Dutch Schultz

2004
Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust Award, libretto for She Lost Her Voice That's How We Knew
ASCAP Writer Awards for lyrics

2003
ASCAP Writer Awards for lyrics

2002
New York State Council on the Arts Award, libretto for Jukebox in the Tavern of Love for The Western Wind
Asian Cultural Council Grantee to Japan to research Japanese chant and text setting
ASCAP Writer Awards for lyrics

2001
Greenwall Foundation Grant for trilogy Jitters
Fellow at the MacDowell Colony
ASCAP Writer Awards for lyrics

2000
Mary Flagler Cary Trust Composer/Librettist Award for lyrics to trilogy Jitters
Guest of The Festival of Arab Theater in Amman, Jordon
New York State Council on the Arts Grant, lyrics for This Is Virgil Thomson's Shoe

1997
1997 Ford Foundation Fellow to Asian Pacific Performance Exchange, (APPEX) held at UCLA

1994
Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust Composer/Librettist Award, libretto for The True Last Words of Dutch Schultz

1992
New Hampshire State Council Award, libretto for Village Store Verbatim
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Richard Rogers Award for libretto ALLOS MAKAR happy in a different way. OK

1991
Walker Art Center Commission for libretto Dutch Schultz

1990
Fellow at Art Awareness Colony with composer Noa Ain
Afro Pop Worldwide Music Grantee to Burundi

1989
Rockefeller Foundation Fellow to Bellagio for libretto ALLOS MAKAR happy in a different way. OK

1988
Dance Theatre Workshop Suitcase Fund Award for Song of Lawino tour
MOCA Grant for the recording & performance of Song of Lawino

1987
NEA Interarts Grant for libretto Song Of Lawino
NEA Opera Music Theater Independent Artist Grant for libretto ALLOS MAKAR happy in a different way. OK (Phase II)

1986
NEA Opera Music Theater Independent Artist Grant for libretto ALLOS MAKAR happy in a different way. OK (Phase I)
CINE Golden Eagle for Excellence in Film for BOOMTOWN

1985
Residency at National Music Theater Conference, The O'Neill, to write libretto Fire Works
NEA Opera Music Theater Independent Artist Award to write libretto Fire Works

1979
New York Shakespeare Festival commission to translate and perform Polish poems and lyrics

1978
Fulbright /IREX Fellow to Poland

1977
Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow to Poland