Phoebe Waller-Bridge
- 39 years old
- English
- Actor and writer
Press clippings Page 25
Why 2016 was a vintage year for woman TV stars
From Fleabag to Happy Valley; Transparent to Westworld, strong female characters dominated the small screen, leaving countless moments that lingered in the heart and mind.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 19th December 201650 best TV shows of 2016: No 2 Fleabag
Bold and filthy and utterly self-assured, Fleabag was unlike anything else on television this year.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 18th December 2016Fleabag review - back on stage in filthy splendour
Phoebe Waller-Bridge follows up her TV hit with a magnificent monologue.
Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian, 11th December 2016Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag review
As both writer and performer, Waller-Bridge knows how to work a crowd, and from the show's bittersweet beginning to its devastating end, she has the entire room in the palm of her hand.
Lauren Mooney, The Stage, 10th December 2016Fleabag live review
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's filthy comedy is even more hilarious and heartbreaking live.
Claire Webb, Radio Times, 9th December 2016Live review: Fleabag
As calling cards go, Fleabag is attention-grabbing: an audacious, hilarious, candid, compelling and heartbreaking look at the life of a very modern 'hot mess'.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 9th December 2016Live review: Fleabag
This was interesting. I've never been to a performance in a theatre that felt so much like a cross between a rock gig by your favourite band and a victory lap of honour. Having gathered various stage prizes Phoebe Waller-Bridge's play was then adapted for BBC3 and will no doubt go on to collect TV awards by the bucketload in the next few months.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th December 2016Fleabag live show: there is more to comedy than laughs
As a comic creation, Fleabag is mean, self-involved, sexually inappropriate, miserable and disturbingly excellent company.
Anna Leszkiewicz, The New Statesman, 7th December 2016Writers' Guild Of Great Britain 2017 shortlist announced
The writers of Plebs, People Just Do Nothing, Fleabag, Guilt Trip, The Pin and John Finnemore's Double Acts are nominated in the WGGB Awards 2017.
British Comedy Guide, 6th December 2016Meet the woman behind Fleabag
How Phoebe Waller-Bridge turned a favour for a friend into a women-behaving-badly Britcom that's a cult hit on both sides of the Atlantic.
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7th November 2016