Phoebe Waller-Bridge to perform a five-week run off Broadway

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is to take her original version of Fleabag to the New York stage.

She will be performing the one-woman play that was converted into the hit BBC show off-Broadway for five weeks next spring.

The TV series was picked up by Amazon Prime, but US audiences will also know her from her role as L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars Story and as the creator of Killing Eve, which airs on BBC America.

Directed by her long-time collaborator Vicky Jones, Fleabag will be performed at the  SoHo Playhouse from February 28 to April 7.

Waller-Bridge said: ‘I can't wait to bring the original Fleabag to New York! It's a dream come true. We couldn't think of a more perfect home than the SoHo Playhouse, and we wouldn't be here at all without the awesome team at Annapurna [the company producing the show]. 

‘This is going to be so much fun.’

Fleabag debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013 where it won a Fringe First Award. It went on to play the Soho Theatre in London, where it was also revived in 2014 and 2016 and has toured the UK, South Korea and Australia.

A second series of the TV version is set to air in the UK next year, while a second series of Killing Eve is also in production. 

Waller-Bridge is also working on a new TV show called Run, a ‘part romantic comedy, part thriller’ about ‘ex-lovers who made a pact 15 years ago that if they ever needed to escape life, they could send each other a simple text message — "RUN" — and impulsively disappear together.’

Here is our review of the stage show.

• Scottish comic Daniel Sloss is also playing the Soho Playhouse with a two-week run of his latest stand-up show, X, in February.

Published: 15 Nov 2018