[2] She proposed directing María Irene Fronés' Fefu and Her Friends as part of her MFA thesis project but was told by male faculty advisors that the play's feminism was dated and that it would be too difficult to cast given the large number of female actors required.
[1] McIntyre worked at Rare Gem Productions, an international commercial theatre producer, in Toronto in the late nineties.
[1] McIntyre founded Sarasvati Productions in Toronto in 1998 but moved the theatre company to Winnipeg in 2000.
[1] McIntyre founded Sarasvati's FemFest in 2003 expressly to amplify female voices.
[4] While working at Sarasvati, McIntyre directed several shows including Fire Visions: The Poetry of Bertolt Brecht (2002),[5] Fen (2010),[6] Vinegar Tom (2010),[7] and Fefu and Her Friends (2014).