 She later went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Direction from Columbia College Chicago in 1990.She then attended graduate school and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Yale School of Drama at Yale University, and was the recipient of a 1996 Princess Grace Award.Her credits include the premieres of "Until We Find Each Other", "The Pain and the Itch", "Purple Heart", "Three Days of Rain", "Drawer Boy", "I Never Sang for my Father", "A Fair Country", "Iron" and "Man from Nebraska".