Upon graduating, Feagin was a drama instructor for ten years at Judson College in Marion, Alabama and George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Feagin worked with well-known drama teachers to enhance her own drama knowledge and skills, while she continued teaching.[4] She studied in London and Paris.[2] She taught at the Allen School in Birmingham, Alabama.[3] She founded her first studio, the Feagin School of Drama and Radio in Carnegie Hall in 1915.[1] One of her teaching techniques was to tell stories like Don Quixote and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to her classes of students, artists, and businessmen. At the same time, Feagin presented weekly lectures on the dramatic arts at the Plaza Hotel beginning in October 1921.[1][3] She lectured adults who wanted to act, sing, or simply to develop their diction. Additionally, Feagin was a part of New York's lecture corps in the bureau of education lecturing to parents and other adults.