sentences:  Additional Off-Broadway roles include Nelly Bly in "Cather County" (1993, Playwrights Horizons), Daisy Mae in "Li'l Abner" (1998, New York City Center), various characters in "The Vagina Monologues" (2002, Westside Theatre), Olivia in "Five Flights" (2004, Rattlestick Theater), Marsha in "Wild Animals You Should Know" (2011, MCC/Lucille Lortel Theater), Mary Todd Lincoln, Lewis Payne, and other roles in "A Civil War Christmas" (2012, NYTW), and Sook Faulk in "A Christmas Memory"
  
  Ripley's regional credits include "Clybourne Park" at the Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, as Bev/Kathy in May 2013; "Next to Normal" at Arena Stage (Helen Hayes Award, Best Actress in a Musical, non-resident production), "Little Shop of Horrors", "Tell Me On A Sunday" (Helen Hayes nomination), "Company" (Helen Hayes nomination), "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "Show Boat", "Shakespeare in Hollywood" (Helen Hayes nomination), "The Baker's Wife", "", "Carousel" and "Carrie".On tour, Ripley played Fantine in "Les Misérables" (1993–94).She reprised her role as Diana in "Next to Normal", the U.S. Tour (November 23, 2010 – July 30, 2011).