 In August 2011 she made her New York Off Broadway debut in the Irish Repertory Theatre's 20th Anniversary production of "Dancing at Lughnasa".Other productions at the Irish Repertory Theatre include Airswimming by Charlotte Jones for "Fallen Angel Theatre" and A Mind Bending Evening of Beckett for Robert Flanagan.In 2014 Pickup played Goneril at the new Polonsky Shakespeare Theatre for Theatre For A New Audience, in Brooklyn New York, opposite Michael Pennington's King Lear, and Amanda in Tony Award-winning director Darko Tresnjaks, Private Lives at Hartford Stage, CT, opposite American actor Ken Barnett.