Liz McCartney cofounded the St. Bernard Project in March 2006 to rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in the St. Bernard Parish of Louisiana, southeast of New Orleans. She is the 2008 Hero of the year.
She was nominated for a 2012 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Musical for "Sweeney Todd" at the Drury Lane Oakbrook Theatre in Oakbrook, Illinois.