She wrote a number of
avant-garde plays such as the long-running stage adaptation of
Brian Merriman's poem "
The Midnight Court". In 2001, she established Pembridge Pictures in the UK to develop and finance her adaptation of
Thornton Wilder's
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, a film which starred
F. Murray Abraham,
Robert de Niro,
Gabriel Byrne and
Harvey Keitel. later films have focussed on female equality stories and include:
The Price of Desire (2015), which is the story of the inception of 20th-century architecture told in the context of how
Le Corbusier completely erased the legacy of Irish Architect and Designer
Eileen Gray. which starred
Aja Naomi King,
Barkhad Abdi and
Maryam Mursals in the story of Irish Somali activist,
Ifrah Ahmed's journey from war-torn
Somalia to global activist. It premiered at the 2019
Dublin International Film Festival and
Edinburgh International Film Festival, and it won the Audience Award at the 42nd edition of the
Mill Valley Film Festival. Other awards included the Audience and Jury awards at the Semaine de Cinema Britannique in France and the
Cinema For Peace Foundation award for its contribution to Women's Empowerment during the 2020
Berlin Film Festival. == Personal life ==