Awards
- New Hampshire Literary Hall of Fame
2024 Inductee
- Academy Award
Best Adapted Screenplay
ON GOLDEN POND
- Golden Globe
Best Screenplay
ON GOLDEN POND
Best Motion Picture, Drama
ON GOLDEN POND
- Writers Guild Award
Best Adapted Screenplay
ON GOLDEN POND
- British Academy Award Nomination
Best Adapted Screenplay
ON GOLDEN POND
- Daytime Emmy Nomination
Best Director
OUT OF TIME
- Broadway Drama Guild
Best Play
ON GOLDEN POND
- Tony Nomination
Best Revival
ON GOLDEN POND
(starring James Earl Jones
and Leslie Uggams)
- The George Seaton Award for Playwrights
Ahmanson Theatre
Los Angeles
- Drama Desk Award Nomination
Outstanding New Play
ON GOLDEN POND
- Drama-logue Critics Award
Playwriting
ON GOLDEN POND
- Doctor of Letters
McDaniel College
(formerly Western Maryland)
- Alumni Award
Outstanding Achievement in the Performing Arts
American University
- Grand Master Award
Outstanding Achievement:
Stories That Touch Our Lives
New Century Writer Awards
- Theatre Hall of Fame
American University
- Distinguished Communicator Award
Plymouth State University
- Major Award
Outstanding Achievement in the American Theatre
New England Theatre Conference (NETC)
- Imaginaire Award
Imagine Magazine
- Francis Grover Cleveland Lifetime Achievement Award
New Hampshire Theatre Awards
- First Annual Ernest Thompson Community Engagement Award
River Town Film Festival
