1992 - CHALMER'S AWARD FOR BEST PLAY FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES - first prize ($10,000) for Toronto At Dreamer's Rock.
1992 - CANADIAN AUTHORS ASSOCIATION LITERARY AWARD for Best Drama ($5,000) for The Bootlegger Blues.
1996 - Nominated for the CHALMER'S AWARD FOR BEST PLAY FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES for Girl Who Loved Her Horses.
1996 - NATIVE PLAYWRIGHTS AWARD, sponsored by the University of Alaska Anchorage for The Baby Blues. First prize
1996 - DORA MAVOR MOORE AWARD for Outstanding New Play (Small Theatre Division) for Only Drunks and Children Tell The Truth.
1997 - JAMES BULLER AWARD from the Centre for Indigenous Theatre for Best Playwright.
1997 - NATIVE PLAYWRIGHTS AWARD from the University of Alaska Anchorage for Pranks (now titled alterNatives). First Prize ($500)
1999 - THE STRANGE CASE OF BUNNY WEEQUOD - second place award for Best Live Short Subject at the American Indian Film Institute Awards.
2000 - BRITISH COLUMBIA MILLINEIUM AWARD - One of the best books published in the Province of British Columbia for Furious Adventures of a Blue-Eyed Ojibway (Only out of province author to be honoured.)
2006 - Nominated for the GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR BEST PLAY - For In a World Created by a Drunken God.
2007 - Nominated for the RAND MCNALLY BEST ABORIGINAL BOOK OF THE YEAR and BEST CHILDREN'S BOOK - for The Night Wanderer.
2008 - FIRST AMERICANS IN THE ARTS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN LITERARY WORKS - for Me Funny.
2008 - INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS - Gold Award in the Juvenile/Young Adult fiction category for The Night Wanderer.
2008 - Honourable mention in FOREWARD MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR - for The Night Wanderer in Juvenile category
2008 - Finalist for the ARTHUR ELLIS AWARDS (Crimewriters of Canada) - for The Night Wanderer in the Juvenile Category.
2008 - Shortlisted for the SUNBURST AWARD - for The Night Wanderer in the Young Adult Category.
2008 - Shortlisted for Playwriting for the SIMONOVITCH AWARD
2008 - Shortlisted for the MANITOBA YOUNG READERS' CHOICE AWARD - for The Night Wanderer.
2008 - AMERICAN INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL - Best Actor (winner), Best Film (nominated), and Best Director (nominated) for movie In A World Created By A Drunken God
2009 - Nominee for THE SASKATCHEWAN YOUNG READERS CHOICE AWARD - for The Night Wanderer
2009 - Shortlisted for the STELLAR BOOK AWARD. 2009-2010 Teen Readers Choice Award - for The Night Wanderer
2009 - Film nominations for GEMINI AWARDS - Best Picture, Best Editing, and Best Actor for a MOW for In A World Created By A Drunken God
2009 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award (see sidebar)
Nice things people have said
"Drew Hayden Taylor is one of those dangerous writers who knows the potential of humour, and how far it can reach into society, how deep it can cut, how quickly it can heal." - Thomas King
"Taylor never lets his characters indulge in speech making; self-reverential jokes, apologies and good manners always get in the way, much to the audience's delight. And yet, the author never shirks form the difficult issues of culture, identity and acceptance that drive the play..." Halifax Daily News
"Drew Hayden Taylor has a deft touch for mixing comedy and commentary in an entertaining and all-Canadian form of social satire." - Vancouver Sun
"Taylor has plenty of fun crashing conflicted figures into one another, and his way with a one-liner and sharp eye for absurdity keep the laughs coming." - Boston Globe.
"Playwright Drew Hayden Taylor has been referred to as 'the Native American Neil Simon.' It's easy to see why..." Los Angeles Times
"What makes Taylor's play work so well is the way it carefully treads the line between reverence and self-depreciation, idealism and practicality... but there's a serous message under the play's jokey surface." Toronto Star
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