In 1993 she moved to Ireland to study at Trinity College Dublin, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on eighteenth-century women playwrights.
[1] In 1999, the company Rough Magic produced her first work for the theatre, the completion of Frances Sheridan's eighteenth-century comedy A Trip to Bath, retitled as The Whisperers.
[2] She has performed with most of Ireland's leading theatre companies including the Abbey and Peacock, Rough Magic, Loose Canon, Bedrock and the Corn Exchange.
She performed in Car Show; Dublin 1742, by John Banville; Melonfarmer, by Alex Johnston; Still, by Rosalind Haslett.
The sugar metaphor - the sweetness that is of often sour, not just to the slaves forced to produce it but to everyone who thereafter touches it - is particularly powerful.