[1] Teale began her career working for WGBH, Boston in local news and documentaries and then for WNET, New York on the financial series Adam Smith's Money World.
In 1997, Teale produced Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself with director Oren Jacoby as part of the PBS Great Performances series and BBC Omnibus.
Dealing Dogs followed an undercover operative for Last Chance for Animals known only as 'Pete' as he infiltrated and recorded the abuse at a Class B kennel in Arkansas.
[13] In 2012, Teale was nominated for an Emmy for her work as a producer for HBO's four-part documentary series The Weight of the Nation.
The documentary follows the struggles of the fishing community in Todos Santos, Mexico against the U.S.-based Black Creek Group who planned on building a large hotel and condo complex on the beaches, which would have restricted access to the beach that the locals have fished for at least a century and used up the limited water supply for the town.
They began filming with cyber-security expert Harri Hursti in 2017 and followed him for almost three years as he traveled the world to explore the issue.
The resulting film, Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections premiered on HBO on March 26, 2020.