Ranson made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning production of August: Osage County in 2007.
The hope was to make the show ready for Broadway, after its flop in 1988, when it closed after only 5 performances.
[5] In 2022 Ranson starred as the character Molly in Prayer for the French Republic, while rehearsing for Plaza Suite, which opened right after the first closed.
[6] She was asked to take part in Prayer back when in grad school by playwright Joshua Harmon, who had just started writing the play at the time.
[7][8] The show is a family drama, presenting various aspects of the life of the Jewish Benhamou's in contemporary Paris (2016-2017) as well as the earlier generation of the Salomon's, using the same apartment space during WWII.