- Her husband, Thomas C. Fichandler, Edward Mangum and herself founded The Arena Stage Theatre Company in 1950 in Washington D.C. She was director and artistic director from 1950 to 1990.
- From 1984 to 2009, she was chair of the Graduate Acting Department at New York University in New York City. She has also been a master teacher of acting and directing at the Tisch School of Performing Arts at New York University.
- She was awarded the National Medal of the Arts for her services to theatre in 1996.
- She was the first regional theatre director to inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1999.
- Mother of two sons, Mark Fichandler and Hal Fichandler. She is survived by her sister, Joyce Diamond Simons, and two grandchildren.
- She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from George Washington University in Washington D.C.
- The Arena Stage was renamed the Fichandler Stage Theatre in 1992 in her honor.
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