She also played Harriette Winslow on CBS' Family Matters for the remaining eight episodes of its ninth and final season, after the departure of Jo Marie Payton.
[3] A founding member and resident actor with the Tony Award-winning Negro Ensemble Company,[4][5] Elder originated roles in the premier productions of The Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, Daddy Goodness, Kongi's Harvest, and God is a (Guess What?).
[citation needed] In 1969, she played the role of Russell B. Parker's young love interest in Lonne Elder III's Ceremonies in Dark Old Men and toured with the company to London and Rome.
In 1976, she made her Broadway debut at the Ambassador Theatre as Coretta King[7] opposite Billy Dee Williams in I Have a Dream,[8][9] directed by Robert Greenwald.
Her direction of Matthew Lopez' The Whipping Man[14] starring Charlie Robinson at the Skirball Cultural Center for LA Theatre Works radio series was broadcast nationally in 2016.