After a year at the Machon L'Madrichei Chutz La'Aretz leadership institute in Israel, she enrolled to study as a teacher trainee at the Auckland College of Education,[2] specializing in drama.
Bernstein became a major role model for Filler both professionally and personally, who often quoted his warmth and generosity on and off stage.
She left New Zealand to study theatre in London but stayed in New York when she discovered Stella Adler, Uta Hagen, and Deborah Hedwall.
Performing at various New York downtown cabaret spaces, she worked alongside John Leguizamo, the Blue Man Group, and as a featured artist at the 'Gusto House Cabaret', where she was chosen to tour as a headliner from Gusto at the 1990 Edinburgh Fringe Festival with fellow performers, including Jim Turner.
Filler has worked as an actor, writer and comedian internationally including the Stratford Festival and in The Handmaid's Tale.
Punch Me in the Stomach, a comi-tragedy blending laughter and tears[9] [8], co-written with Alison Summers, was her first major solo show.
It opened off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1992 and has frequently toured internationally including return shows to Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Berlin.
[18] Angst, a documentary produced by the ABC Voice of the Peg Bundy doll and "Mummy" in the award-winning animated series, Bob and Margaret.