Even though the career of Follows' parents was anchored in the theatre, she did not appear in many stage productions until the 2000s. Her first stage credit was in "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds", in which she starred alongside her mother, Dawn, and her sister, Samantha, in 1988 in Toronto. In 1992, she was offered the role of Juliet in the Stratford Festival's production of "Romeo and Juliet", which she reprised the following year in Los Angeles. Other notable stage credits include "A Doll's House" (Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater), "Othello" (Edmonton's Citadel Theatre and Ottawa's National Arts Centre), "Uncle Vanya" (Atlantic Theatre Festival), and Noël Coward's "Hay Fever", in which she appeared with her siblings, and which was directed by her father.