- 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.
- She performs a one-woman cabaret show.
- 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.
- Her husband is Steve Smyth, a jazz trumpeter in the band Big Bowl of Soul.
- 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".
- 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.
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