[2] Ultimately, Hurlbert did headline as Elle Woods in an October 2012 version of the production, directed by Denis Jones in North Carolina.

[7] Hurlbert starred as Rachel Hughes in the 2010 film Sudden Death!, written and directed by Adam Hall as his Masters thesis.

[11] Hurlbert made her Off-Broadway debut in 2011, starring in the Outer Critics Circle Award-nominated musical Tomorrow Morning at the York Theatre.

In 2012, Hurlbert starred as Sybil in Noël Coward's Private Lives at the Huntington Theater in Boston, directed by Maria Aitken.

[14] She teamed up again with Hall in 2013 as a scientist named Taylor in the web-series Research,[15] alongside Barry Bostwick and Doug Jones.