She studied at Sweden's Theatre Academy (Teaterhögskolan) in Malmö and from 1977-88 was an Actress at Sweden's national stage Dramaten where Fröling appeared in plays such as Stiftelsen directed by Alf Sjöberg, as Johanna in Bertolt Brecht's Heliga Johanna från slakthusen (Saint Joan of the Stockyards) and in Ingmar Bergman's classic 1984 staging of Shakespeare's King Lear (as Regan). In the 1990s she worked mainly at Stockholms stadsteater (Stockholm City Theatre). Ewa Fröling was back on stage at Dramaten; in the title role as Vera in the success play by popular Swedish Playwright Kristina Lugn, 2005.
