She was nominated for a 2010 Joseph Jefferson Award for Solo Performance for her role in "Stoop Stories", at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
Nominated for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Yellowman".
She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
She was nominated for a 2013 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Solo Performance for the play, "Back n Blue Boys/Broken Men" at the Goodman Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theater in Chicago, Illinois.