Author/Director/Actor/Teacher/YouthPLAYS/Films/Aikido/Radio-Plays/Shockley Foundation

                                           Reviews:​
Richard Rodgers Award (Award American Academy of the Arts and Letters  with James McBride)  Shockley Foundation (Director-2006 - current)                                        
American Minority Playwrights Contest
Two Pennsylvania State Arts Council Fellowships 
New Profession Theatre Writers Festival
PAEP Roster Artist
Showtime Television
Berlin Film Festival
Stephen Sondheim Award
New Professional Theatre Writer Festival Prizes
Finalist Sundance Screenwriter Workshop
LilaWallace/Readers' Digest Production Fellowship
Pew Fellowship for Arts & Heritage(2008) 
Director of the Philadelphia Dramatist Center(1992-2002)
Aikikia of Philadelphia - Aikido/Jo/Bokken/Iaido (4th dan)  Shihan Henry Smith, Nizam Telab, Paul Manogue
Barrymore Lifetime Achievement Award
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    A NITE IN THE LIFE OF BESSIE SMITH
Audelco Award "Best Musical Production", "Year's Best" Chicago Magazine, Philadelphia Magazine, Nalt. Black Arts Festival, YouthPLAYS.com, Ivanhoe Theater




        STONE MANSION
                           (Film/television-)
PBS. BET, SHOWTIME NETWORK BLACK FILMMAKER SHORT, Smithsonian film library 
              Director Jan Johnson-Goldberger
              Actors: Carmen De Lavallade
                           Lou Ferguson
               Writer: Edgar J. Shockley III
               Music:   Joe Goldberger   
      

BOBOS​ 
(co-author with James McBride) AMAS Repertory Theatre, American Music Theater Festival, Stepheim Sondheim and Richard' Rodgers' Award, A.S.C.A.P. Music Theatre Workshop, Jerome Foundation and Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fellowship, Lincoln Center Library Theater Collection

ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY​​(book by Mildred D. Taylor)
 Seattle Children's Theatre, Actor's Theatre of Charlotte (best director-Dr. Scott Miller, writer-e.s.) Milwaukee Children's Theater, Seredidipity Theater Burbank, Dallas Theater, First Stage Milwaukee , "Great Scenes And Monologues For Children"-Smith & Kraus 1993, YoungPLAYS.

UNSUNG HEROES (RADIO-PLAY WITH Arnold Goldman)

Seattle Public Theater,  Scribe Video Center(Phila.), 
CEC - Philadelphia

            THE ART OF PEACE (Part 1)
                      TAO & WELLNESS (digivideo)
Philadelphia Independent Film & Video Association, Wyncote Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Fels Fund, Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, PIFV Finishing Funds (2011),Shockley Foundation(Mosaic Theater Production)
        Created by Lary Moten, Jere Edmunds, Shihan Henry Smith and                             Edgar J. Shockley III-writer/narrator