Ripley's 2008 performance in Next to Normal (Second Stage Theatre) earned her Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award nominations. 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 KnowGans, Andrew. "Catching Up with Wild Animals You Should Know Star Alice Ripley" Playbill.com, November 25, 2011. (2011, MCC/Lucille Lortel Theater), Mary Todd Lincoln, Lewis Payne, and other roles in A Civil War ChristmasIsherwood, Charles. "Lincolns in Wartime Hope for a Midnight Clear, ‘A Civil War Christmas,’ by Paula Vogel, Set at White House" nytimes.com, December 4, 2012. (2012, NYTW), and Sook Faulk in A Christmas Memory.Irish Repertory. "Alice Ripley Will Star in A Christmas Memory Off Broadway" , irishrep.org, October 15, 2014.
