In June 2013, she returned to her alma mater when she received the UCLA School of Theater, Film, & Television Distinguished Alumni Award.
[3][4][5] Other works include And the Curtain Rises at the Signature Theatre; Catch The Fish, winner of the New York's Fringe Festival; Twelfth Premise, a Los Angeles Times Critic's Pick; the Los Angeles premiere of Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi, winner of the Ticketholder Award for Best Production and Best Director, and Robby Award for Best Director of a Play; Crane, Mississippi, a Los Angeles Times and Backstage West Critic's Pick.
[citation needed] She also directed Pussycat Dolls Live at the Roxy,[6] the 2002 production that launched The Pussycat Dolls girl group, with celebrities such as Christina Applegate, Carmen Electra, and special guests Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera, Brittany Murphy, Nikka Costa, and Charlize Theron.
Her follow-up film, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List (2015), starring Victoria Justice, is an adaption of the Rachel Cohn and David Levithan novel of the same name.
Hanggi adapted and directed the children's book series, Dear Dumb Diary into a musical telefilm, with Jerry Zucker as executive producer.