For twelve years, 1970 to 1982, she regularly composed music for Melbourne Theatre Company productions for directors including Rick Billinghurst, Tyrone Guthrie (UK), Frank Hauser (UK), Ray Lawler, Bruce Myles, David Myles, Mick Rodger (UK), John Sumner and Joachim Tenshert (Berliner Ensemble, East Germany). She later wrote two substantial music theatre pieces: Regarding Faustus (1983), on a Special Purpose Grant, (Music Board, Australia Council), and Iphigenia in Exile (1985), (commissioned by the Music, Theatre and Literature Boards of the Australia Council.)