performance | writing | direction

Awards – Grants

Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) Award NYC Women’s Fund New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA), world premiere of La Paloma Prisoner.

Map Fund Lead Artist Grant Recipient, La Paloma Prisoner.

NYSCA Grant in collaboration with New York Theatre Workshop.

The Doris Duke Peformance Recovery Grant.

New York Community Trust Grant in support of La Lucha Arts

Howard Gilman Foundation Grant in support of La Lucha Arts

NALAC National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Grant, La Paloma Prisoner.

Almazan awarded the June Bingham Live & In Color Commission for Goddesses Return to the Temple, 2023.

The Bret Adams and Paul Reisch Foundation Playwright Grant 2020 La Paloma Prisoner.

The Kilroys List of postponed 2020 productions written by women La Paloma Prisoner.

Recipient of the 2021 New York Innovative Theatre Awards for leadership contribution to Indie Space/Indie Fund in recognition of the board’s work to serve indie artists.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Grant for La Paloma Prisoner .

Foundation for Contemporary Arts- FCA Emergency Grants LA NEGRA.

The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation LGBTQ Playwriting Prize – 2nd place – La Paloma Prisoner.

Arthur J. Harris Memorial Prize for Arts in Social Justice for development of La Paloma Prisoner and programming with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women.

Recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Latinidad Playwriting Award for CAFÉ .

New Georges Audrey Resident artist, Does that Feel Good to you my Lark?: A Doll’s House Adaptation.

BRIC Arts Residency for a workshop development of LA NEGRA.

The Indie Theatre Fund Prize for Leaders of Color, Artistic Directorship of La Lucha Arts.

Selected as a 2015-16 Core Apprentice Writer with the Playwrights Center with CAFÉ.

Awarded a Professional Development Residency with the Eugene O’Neill Center National Playwrights Conference.

MAP Fund – Associate artist for Aliens Taco Truck Theatre Project.

Scratch Lab Development Residency with Hi- Arts for La Negra.

Critical Breaks Development Residency with Hi- Arts for La Paloma Prisoner.

Network of Ensemble Theatres Travel Grant for the Taco Truck Theatre Project.

Columbia University’s Deans Travel Grant to participate at Tre Roma University Conference in Rome, Italy.

Recipient of the Kate Neal Kinley Fellowship in Playwriting for the Columbia University Masters Program for the play The Hopefulness or La Esperanza.

Recipient of the Deans Fellowship M.F.A. Playwriting Columbia University. Assistant to Charles Mee.

NALIP Travel Grant to attend the National Conference of Latin Independent Producers, where Death of the Doll short was screened.

Ford Foundation, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs, The Cultural Affairs Council, Alternate, Roots. Joint grant for commission and staged reading of play Glossy Page Pimps (co-writer/performer) with Teo Castellanos.

The Fund for Creative Communities/New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, The Manhattan Community Arts Fund, Public Service Award from the Department of Cultural Affairs for The Hopefulness.

Miami Artist Access Individual Travel Grant for She Wolves (writer/performer)

Miami Dade Department of Cultural Affairs Grant for Death of the Doll: A Stripper’s Journey Through the Afterlife.

Tropiculture Miami, and Florida Arts Grant for original run of She Wolves.

Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Community Grant for Artist Residency Development of She Wolves at Art South Homestead Center.

Miami Dade Department of Cultural Affairs for multi-media dance theatre devised piece Anomie.

Nominated for the 1st annual $50,000 United States Artist Award in the Innovative Theatre Artist Category writer/performer.

Finalist for the Artist as Activist Fellowship $100,000, Bob Rauschenberg Foundation for the La Paloma Prisoner project.

Finalist The Playwrights Realm, Playwriting Fellowship with Does that Feel Good to you my Lark?: A Doll’s House Adaptation.  

Finalist for The Women’s Project Writers Lab with CAFÉ.

Finalist for the Jerome Foundation Theatre Fellowship.

Finalist for The Playwrights Foundation Festival, LA NEGRA.

Finalist for the Episodic Lab Orchid Project, Television Pilot – CHUTUP!

Finalist for the Map Fund, La Paloma Prisoner.

Finalist for the Ten-Minute Actors Theatre of Louisville Human Festival with Dar a Luz.

Finalist for Terra Nova’s Groundbreakers with La Paloma Prisoner.

Finalist for The National Black and Latino Theatre Conference with La Paloma Prisoner.

Finalist for The National Black and Latino Theatre Conference with The Hopefulness or La Esperanza.

Semi Finalist for The Princess Grace New Dramatist Playwriting Fellowship.

Semi Finalist for The Rhimes Unsung Voices Playwriting Commission.

Semi Finalist The Playwrights Realm, Playwriting Fellowship with CAFÉ

Semi Finalist P73 Playwriting Fellowship.

Semi Finalist Map Fund Grant with solo Porning the Planet writer/performer

Semi Finalist New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Writing Fellowship

Semi Finalist (2x) with CAFÉ for the Eugene O’ Neill National Playwrights Conference

Semi Finalist Creative Capital Grant, La Paloma Prisoner.