Finalist—Cinequest Screenwriting Competition (2026)
Semi Finalist—Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition (2025)
Semi Finalist—Filmmatic TV Pilot Competition (2025)
Quarter Finalist—Vail Film Festival Screenplay Contest (2025)
Quarter Finalist—Big Apple Film Festival Screenwriting Competition (2025)
Quarter Finalist—Palm Springs International Screenplay Contest (2024)
Official Selection—LA Femme International Film Festival (2025)
Official Selection—Berlin International Screenwriting Festival (2024)
Official Selection—Oxford Script Awards (2024)
Nominee, Best TV Pilot—Austin Under The Stars Film Festival Screenwriting Contest (2025)
Nominee, Best TV Script, Comedy—Austin Revolution Film Festival (2025)
Winner—Sundance Writers' Cafe Prompt Challenge (2022)
Sundance Collab’s Episodic TV Writing program, including Mapping Your Series with Joy Kecken (The Wire).
Sundance Collab’s Screenwriting program.
Sundance Intensives: Producing with Dana Lustig; IP Adapting; & Comedy Writing with Brittani Nichols.

BOSTON HERALD: “The Country Queen of Boston.”
AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN: “Austin’s Underground Country Queen.”
BOSTON PHOENIX: Best Country Act (1990)
BOSTON GLOBE: “Boston’s most respected musical minds.”
Played CBGB’s & The Bitter End, NYC.
SXSW Showcasing Artist (1994 & 1997).
Created/produced SXSW’s first all-LGBTQ showcase (2001).
Appears in films “A Slipping Down Life” (2004, Sundance/SXSW),
“Chet’s Last Call: A Story of Rock and Redemption” (2018) and cult classic “Office Space.”
AMERICAN AIRLINES AMERICAN WAY: “Miss Xanna Don't is hard to miss… [Mike] Judge was looking for the fabled ‘Texas big-hair look’…Xanna was perfect.”
Editor: Labrys (Atlanta’s Lesbian magazine), ATL Free Press, and Don’t Label It!
Board Member: Out on Film, Atlanta.
Screening Committees: Atlanta Film Festival and Seattle Queer Film Festival.