He was awarded the 1992 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for New Adaptation for "You Stand Like a Fine Brownstone" at the ETA Creative Arts Foundation in Chicago, Illinois.
Has 3 children: a daughter, Elizabeth Whitfield (with her first wife, Barbara Ellen Cobbs), a son, Lance Vantile Whitfield (with her second wife, Barbara Ann Grant) and a daughter, Bellina Logan (with Averil Logan, during his marriage with Grant).