Peyton List, whose TV credits include the Paramount+ series School Spirits and Netflix’s Cobra Kai, will take to the stage later this month when she joins the hit Off Broadway revival of Heathers The Musical.
Beginning Monday, January 26, List will take over the role of Heather Chandler, currently being played by Jodie Steele. List joins a cast that includes Casey Likes, Kuhoo Verma, Jackera Davis, Elizabeth Teete, Kerry Butler, among others.
Since beginning previews at New World Stages on June 22 and officially opening July 10, Heathers, directed by Andy Fickman, has broken the house record four times as well as building the largest advance in the venue’s 21-year history. The production recently extended its run for the second time and is playing through May 24, 2026.
“I’m drawn to characters who are powerful, complicated, and a little dangerous,” said List in a statement. “Heather Chandler is an icon for a reason – she’s larger than life, hilarious, terrifying, and deeply symbolic. Stepping into this role is thrilling, and I can’t wait to enter my bad girl era. It’ll be so very.”
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List stars as Maddie Nears in Paramount+’s School Spirits, and serves as Executive Producer. The series returns for its third season this month. On Netflix’s Cobra Kai, which ended its sixth and final season as one of Netflix’s most popular series earlier this year, List played Tory Nichols.
Previously, List played Emma Ross on Disney Channel’s Jessie before reprising the character in the spinoff series Bunk’d. Other television credits include Hulu’s supernatural thriller Light as a Feather, the dystopian feature The Thinning, and CBS’ Happy Together. Film credits include the Netflix romantic drama Girl Haunts Boy, the supernatural thriller The Inheritance opposite Bob Gunton, and the sci-fi drama Anthem of a Teenage Prophet.
Heathers features book, music and lyrics by Kevin Murphy (Reefer Madness The Musical) & Laurence O’Keefe (Legally Blonde The Musical, Bat Boy The Musical), based on the 1989 film by Daniel Waters.
The cult film starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slater (and Kim Walker in the Heather Chandler role), Heathers originally opened in Los Angeles for a sold-out run in 2013 and originally transferred to Off Broadway’s New World Stages in 2014. Heathers has had three West End productions and three tours, which have broken box office records throughout the UK and Ireland.
The synopsis: Welcome to Westerberg High, where popularity is a matter of life and death, and Veronica Sawyer is just another nobody dreaming of a better day. But when she’s unexpectedly taken under the wings of The Heathers – three beautiful and impossibly cruel classmates all named Heather – her dreams of popularity finally start to come true. That is until J.D., the mysterious teen rebel, turns up and teaches her that it might kill to be a nobody, but it’s murder being a somebody.
Heathers is produced by Bill Kenwright Ltd., Paul Taylor-Mills, Jerry Goehring, Madison Mohn, Phil Kenny, Scott Prisand/Rob Kolson, The Broadway Investor’s Club, John Gore Organization, No Guarantees Productions, Willette and Manny Klausner, Aron Tomko and Gabe Alves, Carl Moellenberg, The Shubert Organization, Inc., Nick Padgett/Vasi Laurence, Andrew Patino/Chris Devlin, Richard Batchelder, David Alperson, Carlos Candal & Paul Mansfield, 42nd.club/SunnySpot Productions, annjen Productions/David Treatman Creative, Andrew Paradis/Kelly Lamor Wilson,Charlie Hitchcock/Ben Feldman, Michael Cohen/Robin Reinach, Jesse & Kathy McKendry, Alexander Robertson & Oliver Ives Indictor, Backstreets Productions, Louis Santor, Adam Cohen, and Nicholas Kaiser.