She applied for a job as a designer with a theatre company in Dublin, who then invited her to audition to act instead.
Her debut play, Danti-Dan (1995) was commissioned by the Rough Magic Theatre Company and won the Stewart Parker Trust Award.
[6] In 1996, she contributed the idea for the film Snakes and Ladders and also co-starred in it (alongside Pom Boyd) as one of the female leads.
[11] In 2018, her play The Patient Gloria, based on the 1965 film Three Approaches to Psychotherapy, was staged at the Abbey Theatre.
[15][16][17] She has also written radio plays and short stories,[18] and contributed a chapter to the serial novel Yeats is Dead!.