Was nominated for Broadway's 1988 Tony Award as author of Best Play
nominee "A Walk in the Woods."
Received his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1979.
Was nominated for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "A Walk in the Woods".
His play, "Chesapeake" at the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2012 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Production of a Play (Midsize).