WRITING AWARDS & HONORS
2024
Jonathan Larson Grant Awards Honorable Mention
O'Neill Theatre Conference Semi-finalist with EMPRESS MEI LI LOTUS BLOSSOM
Musical Theatre West New Works Festival selection with BROKEN GROUND
Goodspeed Opera House Johnny Mercer Writers Grove residency with BROKEN GROUND
2023
Lower Manhattan Cultural Center grant award in support of RIDING OUT THE STORM
Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone grant award in support of A LITTLE MORE BLUE
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance grant award in support of A LITTLE MORE BLUE
O'Neill Musical Theatre Conference Finalist with BROKEN GROUND
2022
1st Annual Alvin Epstein Memorial Prize for Solo Performance for A LITTLE MORE BLUE
LMCC grant award in support of A LITTLE MORE BLUE
2021
Elected as Treasurer (and the first Asian American Officer) of the Dramatists Guild
LMCC grant award in support of EMPRESS MEI LI LOTUS BLOSSOM
2018
LMCC grant award in support of TILL SOON, ANNE
2017
LMCC grant award in support of TRUTH AGAINST THE WORLD: THE LIFE AND LOVES OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
2016
Elected to the Council of the Dramatists Guild of America
Winner, Meryl Streep/IRIS/NYWIFT Writers Lab fellowship, Chester, CT
Writers residencies at the O’Neill Theatre Center
(with TILL SOON, ANNE and TRUTH AGAINST THE WORLD: THE TRIALS OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT)
O’Neill Theatre Center Musical Theatre Conference Semi-finalist with BARCELONA
2015
Official Selection, Village Theatre Festival of New Musicals (with BARCELONA)
MCAF grant award in support of “Changing the Stats: Asian Americans on Broadway”
Ford Foundation Grant on behalf of AAPAC (Asian American Performers Action Coalition)
2014
CAP21 Writers Residency for CHANDRA & PHOOLAN
Literary works included in “Eating Culture”, a multi-disciplinary art exhibit at SOMarts Gallery in San Francisco, CA.
(Part of “The United States of Asian America” festival, sponsored by Asian American Women Artists)
Puffin Foundation grant award in support of “Arriving in Asian America”,
a song cycle collectively written by the Asian American Composers and Lyricists Project
MCAF grant award in support of “Arriving in Asian America”,
a song cycle collectively written by the Asian American Composers and Lyricists Project
2013
MCAF grant award in support of the Asian American Composers and Lyricists Project
CAP21 Writers Residency for BARCELONA
2012
Accepted into BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop
Puffin Foundation Grant Award in support of EYE D
Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant award in support of EYE D
Open Meadows Foundation grant award in support of EYE D
Asian Women Giving Circle grant award in support of EYE D
Weston Playhouse Theatre Company’s Writers Retreat Residency
2011
California Civil Liberties Public Education Program grant award in support of research for PEACE PLAZA
Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant award in support of INTERNAL BLEEDING
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance grant award in support of DO THESE GENES MAKE ME LOOK FAT?
2010
2009
“The Christine Toy Johnson Portfolio” (written works) inducted into the
Library of Congress Asian Pacific American Performing Arts Collection
Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant award in support of ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
Puffin Foundation grant award in support of INTERNAL BLEEDING
“Gold Kahuna Award for Excellence in Filmmaking”
from the Honolulu International Film Festival
“Emerging Eye Directorial Discovery Award”
from The Roving Eye Documentary Film Festival for
TRANSCENDING – THE WAT MISAKA STORY
2008
Boomerang Fund for Artists Grant Award
2007
2010, 2008, 2007 - California Civil Liberties Public Education Program grant awards in support of Documentary film, TRANSCENDING - THE WAT MISAKA STORY
2006
Inaugural playwright, Roundabout Theatre Company’s “Different Voices” new play development series
Listed in “Who’s Who of American Women”
2005
Waves International Film Festival – Screenwriting Award, “Audience Favorite Film”
2001
Semi-Finalist, Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World Award