 Over the 1905–06 season Troutman toured as Bessie Tanner in George Ade's comedy "The Other Girl", and in 1907 she portrayed Estelle Kitteridge in a tour of the Augustus Thomas comedy "The Other Girl".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".Of Troutman’s twenty-one Broadway appearances "Father and the Boys" was the first to achieve a modicum of commercial success with a run of eighty-eight performances.