She was nominated for a 2009 Joseph Jefferson Award for Costume Design (Large) for the play, "Turn of the Century" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
She was awarded the 1990 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Costume Design for "Aristocrats" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
After high school, Granata moved from Connecticut to New York to study art at Columbia University.