How to Become Phoebe Waller-Bridge
How to emulate the career of the three time Emmy award-winning actress/writer/badass.
Watching the final episode of season 2 of Fleabag, with tears streaming down my face, I knew I had found a new role model — Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Here was a woman who had gotten her start on the stage and then made the leap to film and TV, using comedy to lure people into a story and trick them into feeling.
There are many actresses I admire, but few whose careers I wish to emulate. Countless actors have worked both the stage and screen, but what draws me to Waller-Bridge’s career is the self-made aspect of it. She wielded her writing like a weapon, and fought her way right to the top.
Desperate to follow in her footsteps, I did a little deep diving to find out how Waller-Bridge took over the entertainment industry. While there is, of course, no “how-to” for becoming a megastar, below are three major takeaways I gleaned from her journey.
1. She created her own theatre company.
Waller-Bridge and her collaborate Vicky Jones are the co-artistic directors of DryWrite, an Associate Company of Soho Theatre. It was there that Fleabag — then a one-woman show written and performed by Waller-Bridge — had its first preview
