[citation needed] It wasn't until the family had settled in Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs in the late 70's that Lacy was able to attend ballet classes again.
During her second year Lacy suffered a serious blow to her career plans when she sustained a severe knee injury in a dancing accident.
[citation needed] It was during a taping for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that Lacy was spotted and asked to choreograph and appear in Kylie Minogue's first clip The Loco-Motion in 1987.
Lacy went on to make appearances on Steve Vizard's Tonight Live but eventually found a home at Channel 9 where she initially starred on a show called Saturday at Ricks.
She staged a one-woman, sell-out show entitled All of Me which was premiered at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and then toured it to Sydney and Brisbane.
In 2000, Lacy went to Los Angeles where she staged a one-woman show entitled Suburban Refugee - it did an extended run at Theatre Theater in Hollywood.
Since returning to Australia in 2001, Lacy staged another one-woman show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival entitled Tania Lacy is Coo Coo Bananas, but more recently she has remained out of the spotlight, focusing instead on the development of various film and TV scripts for local production company, MoodyStreet Kids, amongst them her Virtually Kitty film and a TV series she has developed with Miho Suzuki Gollings.
[15] Lacy and Sturm moved to Berlin, Germany, and after six years, returned to Australia, mid-Covid pandemic, settling in Cairns, far north Queensland.
[18] A segment of The Factory that never went to air had Lacy and her film crew dressed up as Mick Hucknall from Simply Red and attempt to get backstage at the band's concert.
They made it through security and wandered around until they passed Mick himself – who had them ejected and threatened to sue the ABC, who were forced to issue a public apology.