All the times Andrew Scott did theatre

In March 2025, Scott returns to the New York stage for the first time in nearly 20 years in Vanya, in which the award-winning actor plays every part.

Great Scott! Can the actor known as Fleabag's Hot Priest shift to playing several melancholy mopers? Count on the irresistible Andrew Scott to fire up Vanya, a one-man take on Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya beginning in March 2025 off Broadway.

A hit in 2023 in London, the show marks Scott’s return to the New York stage after nearly two decades. He made his 2006 debut on Broadway opposite Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy in The Vertical Hour.

Since then, Scott’s screen roles in Fleabag, Sherlock, All of Us Strangers, and Ripley have amped up the Irish actor’s star status. All the while, Scott has worked steadily on stage in London, where he started out in the early 1990s and has since won two Olivier Awards.

Get to know more about Scott’s standout stage roles, then be sure to see him play the title role (and all the other characters) in Vanya at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

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Brighton Beach Memoirs

Scott’s stage roots are, in a way, based in New York – specifically Brooklyn, where Neil Simon’s 1983 dramedy is set. In a 1992 production in Dublin, Scott played Stanley Jerome, a supportive older brother who provides a bit of humor amid family struggles.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

In a 1996 staging of Luigi Pirandello’s absurdist drama, Scott was back in family mode in the role of an aloof son. The show was presented at the Abbey Theatre, where Scott appeared the same year in The Marriage of Figaro and A Woman of No Importance.

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

In Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical drama about a family’s harrowing struggle with illness, addiction, and emotional turmoil, Scott played the sickly, introspective son, Edmund. For his performance in this 1998 staging at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, Scott was named actor of the year at the Sunday Independent Spirit of Line Arts Awards.

Dublin Carol

Scott made his London stage debut in 2000 at the Royal Court Theatre in Conor McPherson’s moody yuletide drama. Scott played Mark, a young man searching for his place in life, alongside Brian Cox as a forlorn funeral director.

The Irish Times praised Scott for bringing the “hopefully innocent Mark” to life. Scott returned to the Royal Court in 2006 for McPherson’s grief-themed Dying City and in 2009 for Mike Bartlett’s emotionally charged Cock.

A Girl in a Car with a Man

Rob Evans’s unsettling play revolves around the abduction of a girl captured on closed-circuit TV video. For his role as gay narcissist Alex in a 2004 staging at the Royal Court, Scott won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.

The Vertical Hour

In 2006, Scott made his Broadway debut in director Sam Mendes’s staging of David Hare’s drama about a former war correspondent (Julianne Moore) confronting her past and the men in her life – fiancé Phillip (Scott) and his father, Oliver (Bill Nighy). The New York Times critic praised Scott’s “touching vulnerability.”

Fleabag

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Emmy Award-winning series began as a 2013 one-woman play. Scott's character of a foxy pastor, and the title character's unholy obsession, first appeared in the TV adaptation.

Still, we'd be remiss not to include Fleabag here. There’s a fan-favorite moment in the second season when Fleabag speaks to the audience by looking directly into the camera. The priest sees her do it, asking, “Where’d you just go?” It's a theatrical moment — breaking the fourth wall at its deepest and finest.

Hamlet

To be or not to be… the lead role in this Shakespeare classic? In 2017, Scott stepped up as the dour Hamlet in a production directed by Robert Icke that began at the Almeida Theatre and transferred to London's West End. London Theatre praised Scott, who was nominated for an Olivier Award, for his “boyishly youthful demeanor” in the demanding part.

Present Laughter

Noël Coward becomes him. Scott played the charismatic, if self-absorbed, actor Garry Essendine in this 2019 revival at the Old Vic. London Theatre's critic wrote: “A magnetic Scott delivers again.” The star turn won Scott an Olivier Award. In his acceptance speech, Scott said Coward “put forth so many brave and progressive ideas through comedy.”

Nine years earlier at the same theatre, Scott starred in Coward’s Design for Living, a comedy about a complicated three-way relationship.

Vanya

This acclaimed solo adaptation of Uncle Vanya by Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) arrives off Broadway following its acclaimed 2023 London run. The show, filmed live in the West End, features Scott playing multiple roles, each of them bedeviled by regret. In a five-star review, London Theatre called Scott's performance "a truly remarkable theatrical feat" — so be sure to experience it for yourself.

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