[1] Born and raised in Upstate New York,[2] Brougher's career began in 1996, when she wrote and directed her first feature film, The Sticky Fingers of Time.
[3] In 2006, she released her second feature Stephanie Daley, starring Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Melissa Leo, Tim Hutton and Denis O’Hare.
[6] In 2013, Brougher worked as director and co-writer with Tristine Skyler of an adaptation of Jane Mendelsohn’s novel, Innocence.
[9] She is currently working on the documentary Striper about the art and life of Jay Rosenblum, an artist killed in a cycling accident in 1989.
[10] Brougher is a professor and full-time faculty member in the MFA Film Program at Columbia University School of the Arts.