Kessler was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting Grant for his play The Watering Place .
Kessler was won the New York State Council on the Arts Playwriting Award for his play Burning Bright .
Kessler was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting Grant for his play The Watering Place and won the New York State Council on the Arts Playwriting Award for his play Burning Bright .