Founding
member and co-artistic director of Mabou Mines. She has won numerous
awards, including the Distinguished Artists Fellowship, the Pew/TCG
National Theatre Artist Residency Award, a New York Foundation for the
Arts Fellowship, the Zeisler Award for contributions to the non-profit
theatre, a Fox Foundation Fellowship, and the Spencer Cherashore Lifetime
Achievement Award, as well as three OBIE Awards (one shared with Julie
Archer) and a Festival des Ameriques Award for performance, and two
Villager Awards for performance and direction.