[3][4][5] Troutman made her professional stage debt at Wallack's Theatre on April 14, 1902, playing a minor rôle in the Leo Ditrichstein drama, The Last Appeal.

At the Herald Square Theatre in March 1903,Troutman played Annie Bellamy to the Peg Woffington of Grace George in Frances Aymar Mathews's biographical drama, Pretty Peggy.

[3] She subsequently left the cast of Pretty Peggy to play leading rôles with Amelia Bingham's touring company before joining Boston's Castle Square Theatre the following season as a stock player.

At the Empire Theatre on March 2, 1908, Troutman played Frances Berkeley in Ade's comedy-drama, Father and the Boys and the following year toured in Augustus Thomas' The Witching Hour.

[7][8] In the Owen Johnson drama The Return from Jerusalem, from the French by Maurice Donnay, Troutman was Andree Daincourt to the Henriette de Chouze of Mme.

[11][12] In Taking Chances, a comedy adapted by Benrimo and Morgan from the German by Paul Frank and Siegfried Geyer [de], she played Marielle Blondeau for a run of eighty-five engagements that began on March 17, 1915, at the Thirty-ninth Street Theatre.

"Perhaps the greatest treasure in her treasure-filled house was a copy of the first edition of Joyce's Ulysses..."[23] Troutman died at her residence in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, aged 94.