Griffin started as an experimental theatre writer and director in the 1980s, with her first notable work being Blackbeard the Pirate in 1987, at the ICA in London. In the early 1990s she worked creating animated
idents for
MTV. In 1993 she worked as an actress in the
Oscar nominated short animated film
The Village (animated short film). Through the 1990s she worked on a number of short works including the
Seven Sins:Wrath which featured
Paul Kaye and
David Walliams. In 1999, Griffin wrote and directed
Coming Soon. Griffin wrote and directed
The Book Group, a comedy drama which aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 2002 and 2003, and ran for two series. It was the winner of two
BAFTA Scotland awards. In 2005, Griffin wrote and directed
Festival a black comedy set during the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2011, Griffin directed two episodes of the Channel 4
comedy-drama series
Fresh Meat. When the series returned in 2012, she directed episodes five to eight, and also wrote episode six. ==References==