Awards & Accolades

  • 2020: Rachel Bublitz receives Glickman Award for Ripped (world premiere Z Space)

  • 2019: Richard Rogers Award for The Lucky Ones, The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher

  • 2019: Best Bay Area Theater of 2019: Ripped named “Show Most Likely to Provoke Intense Debate” (KQED Arts)

  • 2019: Weightless, commissioned and produced by Z Space, selected for Under The Radar Festival

  • 2015–2018 Best Performance Space (Best of the Bay, 48 Hills)

  • 2018: The Lucky Ones receives Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Choreography (Sonya Tayeh) and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical (Damon Daunno)

  • 2017: Literary Remix: Word for Word (SF Magazine)

  • 2017: Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award, Word for Word—ENTIRE PRODUCTION (UNDER 100 SEATS) for Smut: An Unseemly Story by Alan Bennett

  • 2016: Hundred Days selected for Under the Radar Festival

  • 2015: “Wildest Theatrical Moment” of the Year, KQED, for Wooster Group

  • 2014: Hundred Days wins Theatre Bay Area Award for Outstanding World Premiere Musical

  • 2014: Best Performance Space & Best Dramatic Bar (The Bay Guardian)

  • 2013: San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Entire Production for Word for Word’s In Friendship

  • 2008: Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award, Word for Word—ENTIRE PRODUCTION, ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE for Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

  • 2005: Leigh Fondakowski receives Glickman Award for The People's Temple

  • 2004: Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award, Word for Word—ENTIRE PRODUCTION, ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE, BEST DIRECTION for Immortal Heart by Amy Tan

  • 2002: Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award, Word for Word—ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE for Stories by Tobias Wolff

  • 2001: Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award, Word for Word—ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE, ENTIRE PRODUCTION for Winesburg, Ohio: Tales of the Grotesques by Sherwood Anderson

  • 1999: San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Paine Knickerbocker Award

  • 1998: Pulitzer Prize Drama Nomination for Freedomland, Amy Freed

  • 1998: Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award, Word for Word—ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE for The Halfway Diner by John Sayles

  • 1995: Kesselring Award for Best New Play for Psychic Life of Savages, Amy Freed

  • 1995: Helen Hayes Award Best New Play for Psychic Life of Savages, Amy Freed