She won the 2000 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, was awarded a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship., and was awarded the 2003 Kesselring Prize.

For nine years, the Blackburn Prize - named in honor of the late American actress Susan Smith Blackburn - has been awarded to a woman for writing an outstanding English-language play.

Not only has the Blackburn Prize reflected the vitality among women who are playwrights, but it has also encouraged them to continue writing for the theater even though production is not necessarily the reward for their creativity.

In an award ceremony at the Players, 16 Gramercy Park South, each received a check for $2,000 and a signed and numbered print especially created for the winner of the Blackburn Prize by the artist Willem de Kooning.

The play opened in New York at The Public Theater on 9 March 1997 and won the OBIE Award for best play; it also won the 1996 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the 1996 Joseph Kesselring Prize and the 1996 Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award.

This is the fourth time that Ms. Churchill has been a finalist for the Blackburn Prize, and she is the first playwright to win it twice.

She won the 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

She won a second Obie Award, as well as a shared Blackburn Prize, for her one woman play, My Left Breast which she performed all over the country.