Her parents were Elsie Sarah (née Ellis) and Orrin Angus Saddlemyer.
From 1971 to 1977, she served as Director of the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto.
She was the co-general editor of the Cornell Yeats series of manuscripts, and the founding co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Theatre Research.
She is a corresponding scholar of the Academy of the Shaw Festival, director of the publishers, Colin Smythe Limited,[2] and the Hedgerow Press.
[3] She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research in 2013.