She served as the artistic director at Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY from August 1997 until June 2017 when she retired after a successful twenty-year tenure.
She did freshmen year at Mount Holyoke College and received her BFA '69 and her MFA '72 from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Lampert is a four-time recipient of NEA Choreography Fellowships and a CAP Individual Artist Grant.
Her play Precious Nonsense premiered at the Kitchen and had its second production at Circle Bar-B Dinner Theater in Santa Barbara, CA.
Lampert directed David Ives' Venus in Fur in 2014,[11] and 2015 her play Count Me In was performed at Kitchen Theatre Company.