Trivia

She has appeared in several one-woman shows. "If You Call This Living", "The Kvetching Continues", "Jackie Hoffman's Hanukkah", "Jackie's Kosher Khristmas", and "Jackie's Valentine's Day Massacre" are some of the shows.

Won the Joseph Jefferson Award, Chicago's version of the Tony, which she won during her eight-year stint in the Windy City's famed Second City improv group.

She was a 2003 Theatre World Award winner for "Hairspray".

She was nominated for a 1994 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Revue for "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been Mellow?" at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

At age 46, during the run of her show "Regrets Only", she was hospitalized for a hysterectomy to remove a benign tumor. She was back in three weeks, with a cot backstage for whenever she was not singing or talking.

She performs a one-woman cabaret show.

Won an Obie Award (Off-Broadway Theater Award) in 2001 for playing-of-several-roles in her good friend Amy Sedaris' hilarious "The Book of Liz".

Her husband is Steve Smyth, a jazz trumpeter in the band Big Bowl of Soul.

She was awarded the 1993 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Revue for "Disgruntled Employee Picnic or the Postman Always" at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.