She shared the stage with her first cousin Academy Award winner Ethel Barrymore in the Broadway production of Her Sister and the revivals Trelawny of the 'Wells' (in 1911) and Alice Sit-by-the-Fire.

He also was an acclaimed Broadway performer before appearing in silent films produced by The Triangle Motion Picture Company.

[6][7] Among Drew's many Broadway appearances were in The Second in Command (co-starring her father), Iris, Lady Rose's Daughter (1903), Whitewashing Julia (1903), Caught in the Rain (not connected with the Charlie Chaplin Keystone short), and as the French Countess in It Pays to Advertise (1914), which subsequently was revived on both stage and film.

She appeared with many well-known stars of the era including Virginia Harned, Robert Edeson, Willie Collier and Fay Davis.

She retired from the stage after the Broadway run of The Gay Lord Quex (which also featured her father) concluded in December 1917.