Barton began her acting career on One Life to Live, playing Beth Garvey, a runaway teenage mother, from 1993 to 1994.
Barton's stage appearances include: Sophistry, Lost Studio Theatre, Los Angeles, 1995; Edith Sussman, Die!
Barton also appeared as Paulinka in A Bright Room Called Day, and as a member of ensemble for a production of The Skin of Our Teeth.
The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "It's easy to wish Barton’s direction were more ambitious or her screenplay bolder, but there's a sincerity here, a lack of pretension and a generosity of spirit that proves infectious".
[10] Barton teaches theater at Virginia Commonwealth University, and serves as film director for VCU's Mainstage Productions.