Her first play, The S Bend, was produced as part of the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writers' Festival in 1984. She went on to write four more plays that were produced, published and toured nationally, including Blood, Sweat and Fears, From Choices to Chocolate, and Here Comes a Candle.
While studying for her degree, she wrote Hound, and the screenplay Mug, which was produced as a short film for Channel 4 in 1990. In 1992 she graduated from Middlesex University with a 1st class BA Honors in Drama and English. Since then she has worked in arts development, acted, and currently runs her own arts company Extant, as well as working for BBC Drama production as a Diversity Project Co-ordinator.