[4] Broadway appearances by Corcoran included roles in A Stranger in a Strange Land (1899),[5] All for a Girl (1908), Mother (1910),[6] A Rich Man's Son (1912), Life (1914),[7] Drifting (1922), The World We Live In (1922),[8] Kitty's Kisses (1926), Street Scene (1929), Little Orchid Annie (1930), Little Women (1931), A Night of Barrie (1932), A Saturday Night (1933), A Party (1933), and While Parents Sleep (1934).

Other stage credits, often in touring productions, included roles in Tennessee's Pardner, Mlle Fifi, At the Old Cross Roads,[9] Pretty Peggy,[10] The Freedom of Suzanne,[11] The Man of the Hour, Divorçons, A Doll's House,[12] and A Gentleman from Mississippi.

[4] Corcoran appeared in a short silent film, Mother (1914), adapted from the Broadway show.

She also had uncredited small parts in two later films, Fritz Lang's Fury (1936) and John Cromwell's Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940).

Corcoran married Brooklyn businessman and theatrical producer J. Emmett Baxter in 1902.