A strong proponent of collaboration, she also co-founded Women CenterStage! with the Center of Contemporary Art (COCA), and The Nadadada Festival at the Forum for Contemporary Art.  She currently serves on the faculty of the Community Arts Training Institute.

A playwright, fiction writer, director, teacher, activist and social critic, her award-winning work has been featured on network television, National Public Radio, the BBC and the Associated Press, as well as in academic journals and mainstream publications. She was an official delegate from the United States at the International Conference of Women Playwrights in both Australia and Ireland. Other recent honors include working with Joseph Chaikin as an Artistic Associate at the Atlantic Center for the Arts on a collaborative theatre piece about disability and the selection of her play, “Stories from Generation X (Y,Z…)” for the Seattle Fringe Theater Festival.

Lipkin’s work has been presented in Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Scotland, Ireland, Asia and throughout the United States in a variety of settings ranging from conferences and college campuses to traditional theatrical venues.

Her plays include “Some of My Best Friends Are…,” “He’s Having Her Baby” (co-written with Tom Clear), “Love and Other Four-Letter Words,” “Small Domestic Acts,” “Will the Real Foster Parent Please Stand Up?,” “One Sunday Morning,” “The 1960’s: The Times They Were a Changin,” “The Date,” and “Stories from Generation X (Y, Z…),” "The Girl Who Lost Her Voice" (Body in Performance, edited by Patrick Campbell, Contemporary Theatre Review/Routledge Harwood), among others.

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Previously, Lipkin was the Artistic Director of the St. Louis Playwrights Festival, a theatre critic for the Riverfront Times, and a commentator for KDHX radio. She was an Artist-in-Residence in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University, for five years, where she taught classes that both surveyed and created contemporary performance. She has also taught at Webster University, Lindenwood College and is sought after for lectures and as a visiting artist around the country.

She completed a three-year term on the Theatre Review Panel for the Missouri Arts Council and currently serves on the programming committee for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and on the advisory boards for Theatre Nausicaa (Paris), Fragments & Monuments (London), the International Women Playwrights Conference, and in St. Louis for PROMO, the Center of Contemporary Arts, Edison Theatre, the Gateway Men's Chorus, and VSA.

She is a founding member of St. Louis Mid-Sized Arts Cooperative, a member of the Association for Theater in Higher Education, the Women and Theater Program, Theater and Social Change Forum, PEN, Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, Performance Studies International, and the Dramatists Guild.

Among others, she has received the Missouri Arts Award, a Focus St. Louis Award for Improving Racial Justice and Social Equality, Arts for Life Special Recognition, the John Van Voris Award for Community Enhancement, Special Recognition from the Recreational Council of Greater St. Louis, the Community Enhancement Award from the Governor's Council on Disability, and the Outstanding Alumni Award from Webster University.