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Amy Schumer set to make her Broadway debut in upcoming Steve Martin comedy Meteor Shower

Published: 19:05 EDT, 7 August 2017 | Updated: 21:44 EDT, 7 August 2017

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Amy Schumer is set to make her Broadway debut in an upcoming theatrical comedy.

The comic, 36, confirmed on Instagram on Monday that she will tread the boards in Steve Martin's Meteor Shower.

Amy will appear alongside the likes of Gypsy's Laura Benanti, Firefly's Alan Tudyk and Key & Peele's Keegan-Michael Key.

Comedic collaboration: Amy Schumer, 36, announced on Instagram on Monday that she was making her Broadway debut in Steve Martin's play Meteor Shower

Meteor Shower will also mark Key's first Broadway production, after previously taking to the stage in the Off-Broadway rendition of Hamlet.

The Trainwreck actress wrote: '#SteveMartin wrote a hilarious play @MeteorShowerBwy and I get to do it with @keeganmic @laurabenanti @alantudyk.'

The play - which will be directed by Tony Award-winner Jerry Zaks - is set in Ojai, California in 1993, with a pair of married couples playing spectator to an oncoming meteor shower.

According to production notes: 'Get ready for the unexpected when Norm and his wife Corky invite another couple to their Ojai backyard to watch a meteor shower in the night sky.

New direction: The comedic actress posted a snap of the pair appearing alongside one another on the 2011 show Hoppus on Music to announce the news

'As the stars come out and the conversation gets rolling, cocktails flow, tempers flare, and sparks fly - literally.'

Martin, who previously wrote the Broadway production of Bright Star, explained how he developed Meteor Shower in an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune last summer.

'A meteor shower actually came to me first,' the actor, 71, said. 'I liked the idea of it – I liked the idea of a couple going to watch a meteor shower.

'And then the next thing is, well, who is everybody? And when I started to think about who everybody is [in the play], that's when it got worthy.

Woman of many talents: Amy has been busy filming I Feel Pretty on location in New York

'Because I had a psychological interpretation of who everybody was, and that gave me something to write from.'

The play ran for the first time at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California in 2016, later migrating to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut.

Meteor Shower is slated to run for 12 weeks. Previews commence November 1, with an official starting date of November 29 at the Booth Theater in Manhattan.

Aside from her foray into the world of theatre, Amy has been busy shooting new movie I Feel Pretty on location in New York City.

Amy plays Renee Barrett In I Feel Pretty, a woman whose head injury leads her to believe a spell was cast on her to make her look incredibly beautiful.

As a result, Renee believes she's drop dead gorgeous, and she even gets promoted at work because of her newfound self-confidence.

The star-studded also cast includes Emily Ratajkowski, Michelle Williams, and Rafe Spall.

New role: Amy plays Renee Barrett In I Feel Pretty, a woman whose head injury leads her to believe a spell was cast on her to make her look incredibly beautiful