 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".She later portrayed Marguerite in Charles Osborne's "The Face in the Moonlight" opposite Robert B. Mantell.The following season she portrayed Ruth Hardman in Charles H. Hoyt's "A Temperance Town", a satiric comedy that opened on September 17, 1893, at Hoyt's Madison Square Theatre and ran for 125 performances.