[6] In 2009, Dolginoff received a Los Angeles Garland Award honorable mention for the Music & Lyrics of Thrill Me.

Dolginoff has also written the musicals Flames (premiere production 2013),[8] which was subsequently published by Samuel French, Inc.,[9] Monster Makers, which premiered in NYC in 2015 at the Daryl Roth Theatre/D-Lounge, featuring Dolginoff as Max Schreck, Boris Karloff and Peter Cushing, and was also published by Samuel French;[10] Most Men Are, Journey to the Center of the Earth[11] and Panic (which opened at the Lamb Theatre in April 2009).

[12] After starring in the Off-Broadway production, Dolginoff later portrayed the role of Nathan Leopold, in the Seattle,[13] and Buffalo[14] productions of Thrill Me, and reprised the roles of Schreck, Karloff & Cushing in a second staging of Monster Makers in 2016 at Feinstein's/54 Below in New York City.

[15] In 2018 he originated the role of “Orson Welles” in a revised version of his musical Panic at the Cell Theatre in New York City.

It details the thirty year history of his musical “Thrill Me.” [16] He was born and raised in Kansas City.