Sasha Waddell

Stephanie Abrahams

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

She is delighted to be returning to Vienna’s English Theatre, where she first appeared as the wayward Jane Banbury in Noel Coward’s Fallen Angels in 2006. Earlier this Spring she rose valiantly to the challenge of being the only woman in a cast of eight men, playing Lady Driver in the Michael Frayn comedy Donkeys’ Years.

In London this year she appeared in the premiere of the one-act play All Talk, which was presented with a best new writing award by Steven Berkoff. Other theatre credits include Lady Windermere’s Fan at Chichester Festival Theatre; Noel Coward’s rediscovered early hit The Young Idea at Chester Gateway; Bernard Shaw’s Candida on tour; Private Lives at Margate Theatre Royal; Twelfth Night and The Winter’s Tale both for Creation Theatre in Oxford (the latter performed in a rare art deco Spiegeltent); An Ideal Husband at the Bridewell Theatre; Bergman’s Scenes From a Marriage at the Tristan Bates Theatre; the UK premiere of Equiano in London and on tour; and Dear Brutus at London’s famous pub theatre The King’s Head.

Film and television credits include the recently released British feature film Ealing Comedy (Optimist Films); Julian Fellowes Investigates A Most Mysterious Murder: The Case of the Earl of Erroll (BBC1); Krakatoa (Channel 4); Gobble (BBC1); A Lump in My Throat (BBC2); and the TV movie The People’s Princess(Channel 5).

Sasha first visited Vienna in 1996 while touring Twelfth Night with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She is delighted to be back in this beautiful city performing the extraordinary role of Stephanie in Duet For One.