Delicia Turner Sonnenberg is the founding artistic director of MOXIE Theatre where she received the New Visions Award for her “Risk Taking Leadership and Body of Work” from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. Other honors include a New Generations: Future Leaders grant from TCG at San Diego Rep; SD Theatre Critics Circle “Craig Noel” awards for Outstanding Direction of a play as well as Outstanding Dramatic Production, NAACP Theatre awards and nomination for direction and production, and a Women's International Center Living Legacy Award. She was twice a recipient of the Van Lier Directing Fellowship through Second Stage Theatre in New York, and is an alumna of the New York Drama League’s Directors Program.