Was nominated for Broadway's 1988 Tony Award as Best Book (Musical) for
"The Gospel at Colonus."
Nominated for the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "The Gospel at Colonus" collaborating with Bob Telson.
He has five children: Clove Galilee and Lute Breuer with Ruth Maleczech, Alex Klimovitsky with Polina Klimovitskaya, Joseph Lorwin with Liza Lorwin and James Mohn with Leslie Mohn; and one grand daughter, Bella, by Lute and his wife Martha.
He was awarded the 1979 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Direction for the play, "The Lost Ones" in a NTFN production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.