Phoebe Waller-Bridge of Fleabag and KillingEve joins ScottFeinberg on the AwardsChatter podcast. Listen:
Waller-Bridge was born and raised in London, a tomboy and jokester with acting ambitions that led her to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. There, however, she lost confidence in her abilities, and, upon graduating, struggled to land acting work and applied to law school. "Of course, the moment I got a place at law school, I got my first acting job," she says with a chuckle.
One night, after going to see her then-boyfriend perform in a play, Waller-Bridge met the show's director,, and the two quickly became the best of friends. They formed a theater group, DryWrite, which paired writers with performers on 10-minute shows. One night, Waller-Bridge, who had never written before, was urged by Jones to write one of her own.
After Waller-Bridge had accumulated 10 such scripts, Jones approached the artistic director of London's Soho Theatre and convinced him to give Waller-Bridge an evening there to perform them. Among those who attended was a producer who, on the basis of one of Waller-Bridge's works, commissioned a pilot for the TV showwas another Waller-Bridge short play, but was first performed at a venue featuring comics, not playwrights.
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