Achievements Educated at Street Catherine"s College, Oxford, Phillips" first play, The Rubenstein Kiss, won both the John Whiting Award (2006) and the Turnaround Management Association Award for Best Play. As a director he has worked extensively and was a recipient of the National Arts Endowment Award for his first professional production, Frank McGuinness"s Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme at the Pleasance, London.