Ms. Flanagan has numerous Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, and regional credits and has taught and coached at many colleges and universities, including Long Island University, New York University, Harvard College, and Fordham University. She is currently on faculty at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. She holds degrees from Yale and Carnegie Mellon University and is a certified Fitzmaurice Voicework instructor. She is a winner of the Charles Bowden Award for Acting from New Dramatists in New York, as well as three AudioFile Awards for her work in audiobooks.