Maddie Rice

Maddie Rice is a writer/performer who makes theatre that examines taboo topics with depth and humour and centres female characters. She is a member of BAFTA Connect. Her debut one-woman play, Pickle Jar, won the ‘Three Weeks Editors Award’ in Edinburgh, transferred, and had a hugely successful run at SOHO Theatre. She wrote her second play, Selfish, as part of Soho Theatre’s Soho Six and her third, Goodbye Dandelion, in 2026.

Maddie’s debut TV drama project Gym, was developed BBC Drama and STV. She has recently completed work in writer’s rooms for Netflix’s Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, alongside Vicky Jones, Disney’s Everything You Never Said, and has completed a blind script commission with AMC. She has also written and performed with award-winning sketch groups, Lead Pencil and Zazu, both of which had sold-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre, respectively.

As an actor, Maddie is most notably known for taking over from Phoebe Waller-Bridge in the stage show of Fleabag on tour and her own show, Pickle Jar, at Soho Theatre. She has a background in theatre and sketch comedy and her first play, Pickle Jar, premiered in Edinburgh and won the Three Weeks award before transferring to Soho Theatre. She also works as an actress in TV, Theatre and film.

TV credits include: Fleabag, Call The Midwife, The Other One and Dinosaur 2 (BBC); Stath Lets Flats and I Hate You (CH4); and Ten Percent (Amazon).

Theatre credits include: The 39 Steps (West End); Fleabag (UK And Australian Tour); Pickle Jar (Soho Theatre); All My Sons (Regents Park); and Henry V (West End).