[3] Miskel moved to New York City at the age of 18 and soon made her professional stage début touring with Augustin Daly's famed repertory company that by season's end saw her playing Phoebe, the shepherdess in Shakespeare's As You Like It.

[citation needed] She later portrayed Marguerite in Charles Osborne's The Face in the Moonlight opposite Robert B. Mantell.

[citation needed] Though by then Miskel was known as a promising young actress with a flair for comedy, she chose to retire from the stage not long after she married Charles Hoyt on March 4, 1894.

She returned to the theatre in January 1897[4] to star in Hoyt's new play A Contented Woman,[1] the Broadway premiere of which was anticipated for the next season after a brief shakedown tour of several northeastern cities.

[3] While in Hartford, Connecticut, early the following year, at a ceremony following the last curtain call of the opening night's performance of A Contented Woman, Caroline Miskel Hoyt received an award from the publishers of The Dramatic News.