Memberships:
The Writers Guild of America East (since 2017)
The Dramatists Guild of America (since 2011)
Fancy Stuff:
THE MONSTER received the 2021 Richard Rodgers Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Samuel French published TINY HOUSES (2020)
Samuel French published my adaptation of SAINT JOAN (2020)
I was chosen to be a member of the inaugural cycle of The Writers’ Room at Geffen Playhouse (2018)
Samuel French published EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL (2018)
Playscripts published AIRNESS (2018)
AIRNESS was honored by the American Theatre Critics Association with the M. Elizabeth Osborne New Play Award (2018)
TINY HOUSES was honored with the Roe Green Award by Cleveland Play House (2018)
Completed a Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Fellow at The Juilliard School, under the direction of Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang (2014-2016)
Asked to be a judge for the 2017 US Air Guitar National Championship Dark Horse Competition
Honorable Mention on The Kilroys List (2016) for Everything is Wonderful
Honorable Mention on The Kilroys List (2015) for Everything is Wonderful
Blood Song: The Story of the Hatfields and the McCoys declared the official play on the Hatfield/McCoy feud in the Commonwealth of Kentucky by the Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor Committee (2015).
Semifinalist for the Humanitas New Voices Award (2015)
Finalist for the Reva Shiner Comedy Award (2015) for Devour
Semifinalist for the National Playwrights Conference (2014) at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
Hobo Robo 6 Audience Choice Award (2013)
for A Hipster Christmas Carol
BaD Theater Fest NY Best of the Fest Award (2013)
for Vegetare Vegetus
August 23, 2013 declared Chelsea Marcantel Day in Pike County, KY “In honor of Chelsea Marcantel, for her beautiful, insightful, and truthful original script filled with the dynamic characters and language of Appalachia” by the Pike County Judge/Executive, for the play Blood Song: The Story of the Hatfields and the McCoys
Nominated and accepted to the Dramatists Guild Chicago Intensive
September 2011
Invited Playwright in the Chicago One-Minute Play Festival at Victory Gardens (2011, 2012)
Chicago Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Emerging Playwright Award (2009)
for Beatrice & Beau
Sketchbook 9 Audience Choice Award (2009)
for Beatrice & Beau
Sketchbook 9 Judges’ Choice Award (2009) 3rd Place
for Beatrice & Beau
Chicago Women’s Theatre Alliance 1-Page Play-Off (2007) 2nd place
for happy
Gus and Leanne Weille Playwrighting Award (2004)
for Kissing the Fat Girl
Gus and Leanne Weille Playwrighting Award (2005)
for A Place to Land
