 He has performed in many Los Angeles productions, including the world premiere of Chay Yew's "A Language of Their Own" (LA Weekly Theater Award for Ensemble Performance) and Michael Kearns' "Who's Afraid of Edward Albee".Alumit received an Emerging Voices Fellowship from PEN Center USA West and a Community Access Scholarship to UCLA's Writers Extension, studying fiction and the personal essay form.He was awarded the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in 2010.