her second play, "comfort me with apples", won an evening standard theatre award for most promising playwright, and was nominated for a laurence olivier award. she later adapted daphne du maurier's "don’t look now" for the lyceum, sheffield which later transferred to the lyric, hammersmith. her play "bedlam" was the first written by a woman to be performed at shakespeare's globe. she has also written plays for the theatre royal, plymouth, and rada.