Among the awards she received for her theatre pieces are the Beckett Award in 1989 and the Evening Standard and London Drama Critic's Most Promising Playwright Award in 1990. She won the former for Low Level Panic (1988) and the latter for My Heart's a Suitcase (1990). Both stage plays were performed at the Royal Court Theatre and televised in 1994 and 1993 respectively. They depict women dealing with the concerns engendered by an inhospitable world. McIntyre's other theatre pieces include: I've Been Running (1986), No Warning For Life (1992), The Thickness of Skin (1996), Bob's Play (1999), The Changeling (2001) and The Maths Tutor (2003).
