She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Edwin Booth Award, Rosamund Gilder Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre, and a Pew Charitable Trust's National Artist Residency Program Grant. She was the Andrew Mellon Co-Chair of the Directing Program at The Juilliard School with Garland Wright, the Wallace Benjamin Flint and L. May Hawver Flint Professor of Drama at Bard College until 2012, and the Denzel Washington Endowed Chair in Theatre at Fordham University (2015).