In 2007 Vivienne Glance was working as an actor and theatre director while also writing poetry, short stories and plays.
In 2012, she was enrolled as a PhD candidate in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia, researching representations of science in performance and writing a full-length performance work.
Glance has worked as a project co-ordinator for Out of the Asylum Writers (WA), as a financial officer for indigo journal (WA) and festival co-director for The Arts Catalyst (London), an organisation that she co-founded with Nicola Triscott in 1993.