Along with Nancy Ford, she created several successful stage musicals, including Shelter, I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road, and The Last Sweet Days of Isaac.
In one of her music classes, she met Nancy Ford, and the two forged a friendship that eventually led to a number of professional collaborations as the first female composer-lyricist team in Off-Broadway and Broadway New York theater.
Undaunted, they mounted The Last Sweet Days of Isaac – with Austin Pendleton and Fredricka Weber – in 1970, winning not only rave reviews, but the Obie, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards as well.
Despite being lambasted by the critics, the show began to find an audience via word-of-mouth, and producer Joseph Papp moved it from his Public Theater in lower Manhattan to the Circle in the Square Downtown, where it ran from 12/14/1978 to 3/15/1981.
[9] Recently, she appeared in two episodes of the Broadway Podcast Network's anthology Around the Sun audio drama (written by Brad Forenza) as part of 2024's Season 4: Artists Within[10]––a metaphysical odyssey set amid the cosmos that features writer-performers in leading roles.