In 2012, Acito won the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play for Birds of a Feather, a comedy inspired by Roy and Silo, the same-sex male penguins in Central Park who raised a chick.

[9] ALLEGIANCE - A New Musical Inspired by a True Story opened on Broadway in November 2015 and starred George Takei and Lea Salonga.

[10] In 2012, Acito also turned his novel How I Paid for College into a "one-man monologue with songs" that premiered at the Hub Theater in Fairfax, Virginia.

[12] In 2015, Acito wrote the concert adaptation of Lerner & Loewe's Paint Your Wagon for New York City Center's Encores!

[14] Also in the works is Chasing Rainbows, a musical based on the early childhood of Judy Garland, which premiered in December 2015 at Flat Rock Playhouse in North Carolina.