Hower began her professional acting career playing the role of Andrea in The Years at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1993.

Her character is head of Voyager's xenobiology department and, in the episode "Deadlock" (Season 2), she gives birth to a daughter called Naomi Wildman.

[citation needed] Hower also co-wrote the original music for the play Momma in 2001, as well as writing and recording an unreleased rock opera titled Girl On Mars.

[citation needed] In 2003, Hower directed the stage play City Limits at the Keck Theater in Los Angeles.

[citation needed] Hower wrote, directed, produced and edited the independent film Memron (2004), a mockumentary on the Enron scandal.

The TBS show stars John Lehr as a less than successful businessman who takes over the family supermarket when his father dies.

On January 12, 2023, Jamie Lynn Spears announced that production had begun on a sequel film entitled, Zoey 102, set to premiere in 2023 on Paramount+, with original series cast members Spears, Sean Flynn, Christopher Massey, Erin Sanders, Matthew Underwood, Jack Salvatore, Jr., and Abby Wilde reprising their roles.