Her first play, Critical Mass, (co-written with Jon Zeiderman) was staged at the Actors Studio in New York in 1988.
Her first feature film, Little Noises, starring Crispin Glover, Rik Mayall and Tatum O'Neal was shown at the Sundance Festival in 1991.
[1] Marking out themes explored in her later films, it celebrates the quixotic lives of a group of friends striving for success and acceptance.
Continuing earlier themes, it centres on a vulnerable London woman who goes through life in an unfocused dream and falls in love with an American theatre director, whom she idolizes.
In her search for answers to the meaning of life, she runs into a whole pack of London characters, from struggling artists to moneyed aristocrats.