From 2003 to 2004, Waller began working as one of the directors for the reality TV showSwitched Up!, which aired on ABC.
In 2005, Waller joined the writing staff of the drama series Commander in Chief which aired for one 18 episode season from 2005 to 2006. She is credited for writing one episode with Anya Epstein.
From 2006 to 2008, she joined the crew of Desperate Housewives as a staff writer, and for the third season of the show she joined Josh Senter and Jenna Bans on the show's team of story editors. She has writing credits on six episodes of the show.
She then served as a writer and co-producer on the ABC comedy–drama Eli Stone from 2008-2009 with two writing credits alongside Wendy Mericle.
Waller joined the AMC drama series Mad Men in 2009 as a co-producer for the show's third season and was a producer for the series' fourth season. In addition to her role as a producer, she also wrote 2 episodes of the Emmy winning drama alongside show runner and creator Matthew Weiner and one episode alongside Weiner and writer Kater Gordon.
Waller has worked as a supervising producer and co-executive producer on the AMC Original Series Halt and Catch Fire in 2014 and 2015. In 2020, she created the FX-on-Hulu miniseries Mrs. America, which had its series premiere on April 15.
She has written for the stage, with her one act play Between Movements debuting in 2012 as part of an initiative called Unscreened in conjunction with the Elephant Stages-Lillian Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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