2019: Special Award for Outstanding Work from the League of Professional Theatre Women.

 

2016-2013: Three to five-week writing residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, VCCA (Virginia Center for the Creative Arts), Ragdale in Lake Forest, Illinois, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts near Ithaca, NY, to work on her book, Symbols of Resistance: The Legacy of Artists under Pinochet and her play, Between Hope and Freedom, based on the book.

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2013:   Fitt Artist-in-Residence Grant, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University, month of September

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2010:   Open Society Institute, Latin American Program. Grant to support the eventual translation into Spanish of her book, Symbols of Resistance: The Legacy of Artists under Pinochet

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2009:   NEA Translation Grant, Literature Program, to translate José Triana’s play, Palabras comunes, into English

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2007:   Ford Foundation Individual Grant (Andean Regional Office) to travel to Chile for work on her book, Symbols of Resistance: The Legacy of Artists under Pinochet

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2006:   Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Liberal Arts, Purdue University

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2004:   Four-week writing residency in Bellagio, Italy, from The Rockefeller Foundation, to work on her book, Symbols of Resistance

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2001:   Award from the Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations “acknowledging and in appreciation of contributions toward restoring democracy in Chile”

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1995:   Extension of her Fulbright Award to continue research on book

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1995:   Visiting Faculty Fellowship from Notre Dame University’s Kellogg Institute of International Studies for one semester to continue research on book

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1994:   Fulbright Lecture/Research Award (Chile) for six months to begin research on book and to teach a course in playwriting at the theatre department of the University of Chile, Santiago

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1989:   Translation Commission, from National Theatre Translation Fund and NYSCA, to translate from the Portuguese Nelson2Rodrigues, an adaptation by Antunes Filho of two Rodrigues plays

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1988:   Fulbright Award (Chile) to direct Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune with El Nuevo Grupo and give a seminar on U.S. theatre at the Catholic University, Santiago, Chile

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1988:   New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Commission to work on her play, Paper Wings, about Frida Kahlo

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1985:   NEA Translation Fellowship, Theatre Program, to translate Mario Vargas Llosa’s play, Kathie y el hipopótamo into English

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1981:   Four Travel & Study Awards from the Ford Foundation (between 1968 and 1981)

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1979:   The Villager Award for Theatre in the Americas Festival

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1976:   Obie Award for Chile, Chile!, directed by Joseph Chaikin

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1975:   Individual Artist Award (Theatre), from National Endowment for the Arts

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1972:   Obie Award for A Latin American Fair of Opinion, directed by Augusto Boal

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1963:   Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to complete M.A. in Madrid

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1962:   Rotary International Fellowship to study Chilean theatre in Santiago, Chile