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'', '' Family Matters'', '' Mad About You'', ''

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'', '' The Nanny'', '' Caroline in the City'', ''

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'', '' Titus'', '' The Tracy Morgan Show'' and ''

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''. She was nominated for two

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s for her work on the latter series, as a part of the producing and writing team. She is the sister of fellow producer and writer

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. Both sisters are openly

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. In the first few years of her career she worked with

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until 1995. Lapiduss is a 1974 graduate of Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh and worked at the Pittsburgh Public Theater in the late 1970s when she was "discovered" by

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when she arrived in town to see a production of the Seagull, Lapiduss became Hepburn's assistant.

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