[3] In 2006, Ward won the Time Out's Critic's Choice award for Best Newcomer and wrote Take A Break Tales – exaggerated adaptations of women's magazine stories – in which she appeared with Neil Edmond, Emma Fryer and Isy Suttie at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The next year she co-wrote Psister Psycho, a musical about a killer robotic lesbian nun, with Martin White for the 2007 Edinburgh Festival which was a cult hit and was nominated for the Chortle Award for Best Full Length Show 2008.

She was also a regular member of Robin Ince's Book Club where she performed under the guise of Andy McNabb, Heather Mills McCartney, Adam Ant and David Bowie.

[5] Ward created the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show Dilemma, which ran for four series 2011-15 and was hosted by Sue Perkins.

[11] Ward is known for her dark and idiosyncratic writing and was the holder of the BBC Radio Comedy Writers Bursary in 2006–2007.

In December 2023, filming began on a Ward-scripted comedy series for BBC Three entitled Daddy Issues and starring David Morrissey and Aimee Lou Wood.