Complex sentence: In 1993 she won the Clarence Derwent Award for her Broadway debut performance in the play "Candida" starring Mary Steenburgen, and in "Taking Sides" (1996) with Elizabeth Marvel, and Vera Farmiga, who was Dowd's understudy.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1993 she received the Clarence Derwent Award for her Broadway debut performance in the play "Candida" starring Mary Steenburgen. She next appeared in "Taking Sides" (1996) with Elizabeth Marvel, and Vera Farmiga, who was Dowd's understudy.