She directed the feature films For the Love of George[1] (2018), A Sort of Homecoming (2015), Manna From Heaven [2](2002), Just Friends (1996), Temps [3](1999), and co-directed the 2007 documentary "Sign My Snarling Movie: 25 Years of the Bobs".

After New York she traveled to Los Angeles, and worked on numerous theater shows, including the musical A... My Name Is Alice.

[8] Old Guy: 2020 Emmy Qualifying Streaming Short Form Series[17][18][19] starring Peri Gilpin and Roger Burton.

Kat's Coasters: directed by Maria Burton from a script by Berkley Johnson premiering at the Messhall Film Festival November, 2022.

[24][25] Burton was selected for Indigenous Media's ProjectHER for which she wrote and directed Good Eggs for Condé Nast,[26] and has been selected for the television directing programs including CBS Directors' Initiative Class of 2017–18,[27] Ryan Murphy's HALF Initiative 2018, [28] SONY's Emerging Directors Class 2018-20;[29] ABC's Television Directing Class 2018-20[30] and DGA's DDI Emerging Directors Class 2021[31] Maria is in process of developing an indie TV pilot, "MidLife", and next feature-film script for a drama inspired by the "Mercury 13 women who were tested for the original astronaut program in 1961–62[32] was named to the Athena Film Festval's Athena List[33] and was a quarter finalist in the Academy of Motion Pictures's Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.