In 1980, she moved to New York City, embarking on a multifaceted career encompassing music, theatre, dance, media and film. She created/starred in ground breaking media operas at La Mama in the 1980s including Azax/ Attra and The Ghost of Ibn Sabah. In 2007 she moved to southern California. In 2010, the LA Times critic Mark Swed called her "one of Iran's most potent voices in exile for the simple reason that she possesses a marvelously potent voice." In 2015, in tribute to the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad (d.1967), she created "The House is Black", which she performed at UCLA, and "Dawn of the Cold Season," a performance installation at the Shulamit Gallery in Venice, California.