Career
She is most recognized for writing and directing Songcatcher (2000) and The Ballad of Little Jo (1993). She also directed an adaptation of Jim Thompson"s The Kill-Office starring an ensemble cast that includes Cathy Haase and the film debut of Jorja Fox. Greenwald has also directed a number of television films as well as directing episodes of The Adventures of Pete & Pete, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo and Wildfire.
According to film scholar Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Greenwald"s "sense of macabre humor" was apparent in her 1989 film The Kill-Office, which Foster described as a "well-acted adaptation of a hard-boiled novel" about a "bedridden, evil gossip.".