Cizmar's work has been selected for EnVision, the Sundance Theatre Lab, and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference; a National Endowment for the Arts grant; a nomination to The Kilroy List, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation; and a TCG/Mellon Foundation On the Road grant.
.She has served residencies at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy; Cizmar's works include The Death of a Miner, Candy & Shelley Go To the Desert, Still Life with Parrot & Monkey, Ghost Dance on Mulholland, Bone Dry, The Last Nights of Scheherazade, January, and Street Stories.
She majored in English and wrote for the Ohio University Post, which led to an internship on the Detroit Free Press, where she covered everything from the courts to crime to feature stories.
[2] Cizmar co-authored the documentary theatre piece Seven, with Carol K. Mack, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Ruth Margraff, Susan Yankowitz, and Anna Deavere Smith.
[6] Cizmer held playwriting residencies at Skidmore College, Ohio University, and Portland Stage.