There she discovered Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, and found her own voice as a feminist, socialist and artist.

Macleod's play Glow Boys was based on her family's experiences living beside Ontario's Bruce Nuclear Plant and was first performed in Kincardine and Port Elgin in 1985.

[4] Macleod co-directed (with singer Lorraine Segato) and produced Worth Every Minute, a 1987 NFB documentary about Pat Schulz, a working class socialist and child care activist.

[8][10] After her death, Canadian actor and director David Ferry wrote in the Globe and Mail: '...one thing I remember so strongly was how she helped make one of our modest productions bloom - literally.

We were doing a Norm Foster play called Jupiter in July... and (I) mentioned how the director, Kyra Harper, wanted the stage to be full of plants because the protagonist was a gardener.