Award for Young Playwrights from the Streisand Center for Jewish Culture. The full-length version of Life in Refusal was commissioned by the Foundation for Jewish Culture and premiered in 1988 at Performance Network Theatre in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It had its mainstage debut at Theater J in 2000; Wendy C. Goldberg directed. Life in Refusal was nominated for the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play in 2001, and published by Samuel French, Inc. in 2003. It was anthologized in Ellen Schiff and Michael Posnick's 9 Contemporary Jewish Plays (University of Texas Press, 2005). Oh, The Innocents was first produced as a one-act entitled Private Lessons at the Circle Repertory Company Lab; Michael Greif directed. Its second act was originally presented as the one-act The New Veil in 1988 at The Ensemble Studio Theatre's OctoberFest. The first full-length version of Oh, The Innocents was produced by GeVa Theatre as part of its 1990 "Reflections: A New Plays Festival." It won the Clifford Davie Award for New Plays. Joe Mantello directed a cast that included Josh Brolin, Peter Birkenhead, and Cordelia Richards. Roth made his Washington directorial debut with Theater J's 2004 production of Oh, The Innocents, which included ten new original songs penned by the playwright. Oh, The Innocents is featured in The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 1990 (Smith and Kraus, Inc., 1991), and was published in 1996 by Samuel French, Inc. Commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) with a grant from the National Federation of Jewish Culture in 1994, Goodnight Irene was extensively workshopped at MTC; Victory Gardens Theater; Atlantic Theater Company; HB Playwrights Foundation; the University of Chicago; and University of Michigan. Gilbert McCauley directed its 1996 world premiere at Performance Network Theatre in which Peter Birkenhead and Tim Rhoze starred. Goodnight Irene was produced at Theater J in 1998 and staged by the Hypothetical Theatre Company at the 14th Street Y in 2001. Expanded from one-acts originally produced by HB Playwrights Foundation, Love and Yearning in the Not-for-Profits and Other Marital Distractions was workshopped at Ojai Playwrights Conference (directed by Susan Booth); New Dramatists; and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company before its 2001 premiere at Theater J. Sarah Fox's performance in Theater J's production was nominated in 2002 for the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play. Love and Yearning comprises four one-act plays: Prelude to a Crisis (featured in Ensemble Studio Theatre's "Marathon '98"