Sasha Waddell

Lady Driver, MA

Sasha was born in Italy and read English at Durham University before going on to train at the Drama Studio London.

Her first professional job was with the Royal Shakespeare Company, whose tour of Twelfth Night included Vienna’s own Theater an der Wien.

Favourite theatrical roles have included the title role in Shaw’s Candida, and Amanda in Private Lives, both for MFP; Priscilla in Coward’s lesser known classic The Young Idea at Chester Gateway; Susannah in the UK premiere of Equiano in London and on tour; Hermione in The Winter’s Tale for Creation Theatre Company in Oxford; Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing for Albion Shakespeare Company; Stephanie Abrahams in Duet For One for Gateway Theatre Company; Lady Caroline in Dear Brutus at London’s much-loved King’s Head pub theatre; Marianne in Bergman’s Scenes From a Marriage at the Tristan Bates Theatre; and Rosalie in Lady Windermere’s Fan at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Last summer she had great fun learning Bollywood dance routines when she played Mary Singh in the soon to be released British film Ealing Comedy. Television credits include Julian Fellowes’ A Most Mysterious Murder: The Case of the Earl of Erroll (BBC1); Krakatoa (Channel 4;) Gobble (BBC Screen One); A Lump in My Throat (BBC2); and the TV movie The People’s Princess (Channel 5).

Sasha is thrilled to be performing in Donkeys’ Years for Vienna’s English Theatre, where she was last seen two years ago behaving very badly as Jane Banbury in Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels.