Sascha Ley

Contact

Agent : Self-management Please contact me via http://saschaley.com/contact/

infos

Birthday : 13 09 1967
Size : 166 cm
Hair color : Light Brown
Eye color : Green
Languages :
English : Fluent
French : Fluent
German : Mother Tongue
Luxemburgish : Mother Tongue
Other : Italian (fluent)
Dialects : Saarland
Skills : professional vocalist : jazz, improvisation, songs, contemporary; dance : contemporary, free style; piano (intermediate)
Additional Info : Sascha Ley is a multilingual actress, singer, composer, improviser and poet, based in Luxembourg with both the Luxembourgish and German citizenship. Parallel to music and drama she has devoted herself to writing and interdisciplinary performance. Since the beginning of 2000 she has produced several performances and albums under her label and Food for Thought Office yela music yela muse. Sascha is based in Luxembourg and works and tours internationally. (e.g. Solo, Duo Sascha Ley & Laurent Payfert | www.leypayfert.com)

Training

Training : TRAINING Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg (L), Haidy Jacobi Stephan Federkeil | Saarbrücken (D) Reinette van Zijtveld | DJAM School for Jazz, Amsterdam (NL) Dhanashree Pandit-Rai | classical Hindustani vocals | Mumbai (Jazz India Vocal Institute) WORKSHOPs & MASTERCLASSes Gabriele Hasler | Shelley Hirsch | Meredith Monk / Ellen Fisher | Frank Köllges | Sainkho Namtchylak and Biosintes

Sascha Ley

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Audio

Video / SHOWREEL

Cinema

2024
The Lecture
Director: Kasia Adamik
Role: Beata
Luxembourg/Poland, Iris Productions
2023
Ausser Otem
Director: Eric Lamhène/Rae Lyn Lee
Role: Tania Weiss
Samsa film
2022
Maret
Director: Laura Schroeder
Role: Hannah Skolarczik
Red Lion
Little Duke
Director: Andy Bausch
Role: Élodie
Paul Thiltges Distributions
2021
Mir géint d'Welt - short film (prequel)
Director: Eric Lamhène/Rae Lyn Lee
Role: Tania Weiss
Samsa film
Endstatioun
Director: François Baldassare
Role: La douanière
Canopée Produktion
2015
Cosmodrama
Director: Philippe Fernandez
Role: The biologist
France | Atopic
2014
Fieber
Director: Elfi Mikesch
Role: Marguérite
Luxembourg/Austria/Italy | Amour Fou
2013
Hannah Arendt
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Role: Lore Jonas
Germany/Luxembourg/Israel | Heimatfilm / Amour Fou
2011
The Hunters
Director: Etienne Huet
Role: Teacher
France/Luxembourg/Belgium | HUMAL Productions, Tarantula
2010
Mano de dios
Director: Adolf El Assal
Role: Inspector Schmidt
Luxembourg | short film | Independent Spirit Productions
2009
Les lettres de Julia
Director: Isabelle Costantini
Role: Sascha
Luxembourg | short film | Tarantula
House Of Boys
Director: Jean-Claude Schlim
Role: Frank’s mother
Luxembourg/Germany | Delux Productions
Räuberinnen
Director: Carla Lia Monti
Role: Karla
Switzerland/Luxembourg | Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Paul Thiltges Distributions
2008
Time for New Heroes
Director: Christian Neumann
Role: Mother
Luxembourg | short film | Re media
2007
You for Me
Director: Cyrus Neshvad
Role: Diane
Luxembourg | short film | Tarantula
2006
Deep Frozen
Director: Andy Bausch
Role: Shannell
Luxembourg/Switzerland/Austria | Iris Productions, Carac Films, Wega Film
2004
Tatort
Director: Hans-Christoph Blumenberg
Role: Dr Barbara Schreiner
Germany | TV | ARD/Telefilm Saar
La revanche
Director: Andy Bausch
Role: Tessie
Luxembourg | Iris Productions
De nouvelles vies
Director: Stéphane Kurc
Role: Marianne
Luxembourg/France
2002
Twin sisters
Director: Ben Sombogaart
Role: Woman on the bus
Netherlands/Luxembourg | IDTV Film, Samsa Film
2001
C.Q.
Director: Roman Coppola
Role: Fantasy journalist
Luxembourg/USA |Delux Productions, American Zoetrope, United Artists
2000
Shadow of a Vampire
Director: Elias E. Merhige
Role: Drunken Woman
Luxembourg/USA | Delux, Saturn Film
1999
8 ½ Women
Director: Peter Greenaway
Role: Nun
UK/Netherlands/Luxembourg/Germany | Delux Productions, Woodline Productions
1997
Back in Trouble
Director: Andy Bausch
Role: Juliette
Luxembourg/Germany | Lynx Productions, Wüste Film
1995
Brazil/Letters Unsent
Director: Andy Bausch
Role: Elisabeth and her twin sister
Luxembourg | Lynx Productions, Wüste Film
1993
D’Sandauer
Director: Christian Delcourt
Role: Fränz
Luxembourg
1989
Schacko Klak
Director: Frank Hoffmann, Paul Kieffer
Role: Änder

Theater

2023
Wasserkur für die Ohren
Author: Team
Director: Team
Role: Creature, Singer
Audio Walk Performance Germany
Der Besuch der alten Dame
Author: F. Dürrenmatt
Director: Claire Thill
Role: Claire
2022
Wenn Sie ein Sandsturm wären
Author: Nico Helminger
Director: self produced
Role: herself
Reading and musical composition
Onirisée
Author: team creation Les Oniristes
Director: team creation Les Oniristes
Role: herself
Tour Germany
Papercut
Author: Larisa Faber
Director: Larisa Faber
Role: The Guest
main character / in English language
2021
Der Besuch der alten Dame
Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Director: Claire Thill
Role: Claire Zachanassian
main character / in German language
Onirisée
Author: team creation Les Oniristes
Director: team creation Les Oniristes
Role: herself
German, French, English, Spanish
2019
Pièce en plastique
Author: Marius von Mayenburg
Director: Marion Poppenborg
Role: Ulrike
Théâtre du Centaure
2018
End Of The Rainbow
Author: Peter Quilter
Director: Marion Poppenborg
Role: Judy Garland
Théâtre National Luxembourg
2017
Le Bruit des Capitales
Author: team creation
Director: team creation
Role: herself
Festival Zones Théâtrales Ottawa 2017
La Putain de l’Ohio
Author: Hanokh Levin
Director: Frédéric Frenay
Role: Kokotska
Theatre Ouvert Luxembourg
2016
Gesang der Schneekönigin
Author: Sascha Ley
Director: Sascha Ley
Role: Snow Queen
Music & visual performance 2016/17
The Agony of Ingeborg Bachmann
Author: Pierre Joris
Director: Andreas Wagner
Role: Ingeborg Bachmann
Théâtre National Luxembourg
2014
Mi Frida
Author: Sascha Ley
Director: Sascha Ley
Role: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera
Dance Theatre | Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg 2014-19
Blind Date
Author: Theo van Gogh
Director: Myriam Muller
Role: Katia
Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
Totentanz
Author: August Strindberg
Director: Natalie Ortner
Role: Alice
Kaleidoskop Theater
2013
Anatol
Author: Arthur Schnitzler
Director: Marion Rothhaar
Role: Bianca
MASKéNADA
2009
Besuch bei dem Vater
Author: Roland Schimmelpfennig
Director: Franz-Josef Heumannskämper
Role: Sonja
Théâtre des Capucins
Bombsong (Monologue)
Author: Thea Dorn
Director: Frédéric Frenay
Role: Sie
MASKéNADA/Théâtre d'Esch | Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen 2010
2008
Professor Unrat (Blue Angel)
Author: J. von Düffel/Heinrich Mann
Director: Claude Mangen
Role: Rosa
Théâtre des Capucins
2007
Die Dreigroschenoper (The Three Penny Opera)
Author: Brecht/Weill
Director: Claude Mangen
Role: Jenny
MASKéNADA/Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
Drown Desdemona (based on ‘Othello’)
Author: W. Shakespeare/ P. Talard
Director: Philippe Talard
Role: Desdemona
Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg/Théâtre Nomade
2006
Damen der Gesellschaft (The Women)
Author: Clare Booth Luce
Director: Claude Mangen
Role: Mary
Théâtre d'Esch
2005
Blue Room
Author: David Hare
Director: Marion Poppenborg
Role: The Actress
Théâtre des Capucins
La Ronde
Author: Arthur Schnitzler
Director: Marion Poppenborg
Role: The Actress
Théâtre des Capucins
2004
Dancing (based on “Le Bal”)
Author: Penchenat/Scola, Paul Kieffer
Director: Paul Kieffer/H. van den Kerchove
Role: The Beauty
Les Théâtres de la Ville
2003
Push Up 1-3
Author: Roland Schimmelpfennig
Director: Franz-Josef Heumannskämper
Role: Patricia
Théâtre des Capucins
2002
Maria Stuart
Author: Friedrich Schiller
Director: Marion Poppenborg
Role: Elisabeth
Théâtre des Capucins
L’Homme Qui…
Author: Sacks/Brook/Estienne
Director: Frédéric Frenay
Role: Various
MASKéNADA
Alice under Ground
Author: Claude Mangen/Lewis Carroll
Director: Claude Mangen
Role: Miss Prickett
MASKéNADA/International Festival Wiltz
2001
Pseudo : Krupp
Author: Bernard Baumgarten/ensemble
Director: Bernard Baumgarten
Role: Mother
Théâtre d'Esch
Messer in Hennen (Knives in Hens)
Author: David Harrower
Director: Claude Mangen
Role: The Woman
Kasemattentheater
2000
West Side Story
Author: L. Bernstein/ S. Sondheim
Director: Claude Mangen/B. Baumgarten
Role: Anita
MASKéNADA/International Festival Wiltz
King Kong’s Töchter
Author: Theresia Walser
Director: Andreas Baesler
Role: Berta
Theater Trier/Théâtre des Capucins
1999
Katzelmacher
Author: R. W. Fassbinder
Director: Barbara Herold
Role: Helga
Landestheater Castrop-Rauxel/Théâtre des Capucins
1998
Heute Abend: Lola Blau
Author: Georg Kreisler
Director: Claude Mangen
Role: Lola Blau
MASKéNADA/Theater Bregenz
Ungehaltene Reden ungehaltener Frauen | Solo
Author: Christiane Brückner
Director: Dieter Peust
Role: Gudrun Ennslin, Eva Braun & more
Théâtre des Capucins
1997
Yvonne, dei Burgunderprinzessin
Author: W. Gombrowicz
Director: G. Jost/J. Posing
Role: Isa
Théâtre des Capucins
Summerzauber
Author: Guy Rewenig/Goldooni
Director: Frank Hoffmann
Role: Vicky
Théâtre des Capucins | Theatre Festival Stockholm
1996
Summerdraam (A Midsummer night’s Dream)
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Marja-Leena Junker
Role: Helena
Théâtre des Capucins
Macbeth
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Claude Mangen
Role: Witch
MASKéNADA
1995
Stella
Author: J.W. von Goethe
Director: J. Lorenzen
Role: Lucie
Théâtre des Capucins
1994
Antigone
Author: Sophokles
Director: J.-P. Maes
Role: Antigone
Théâtre des Capucins
1993
Die Hose (The Underpants)
Author: Carl Sternheim
Director: Eva Paulin
Role: Luise
Kasemattentheater
The Glass Menagerie
Author: Tennessee Williams
Director: J.-P. Maes
Role: Laura
Kasemattentheater
1989
Herzstück/Heartplay
Author: Heiner Müller
Director: Paul Kieffer
Role: She
Theater GMBH Schluechthaus
1986
Die Fremdlingin
Author: Michel Clees
Director: Michel Clees
Role: Grete
Theater GMBH Schluechthaus - Theater Debut

Additionnal

2024
Axis Mundi
Album release and tour / quartet Ley, Payfert, Öztürk & Boffo
2023
The Laughter of the Red Moon/Knef Revisited
Album release and tour / duo Georg Ruby, Sascha Ley
2022
Concerts / Sascha Ley & Laurent Payfert
Touring since 2014 - Vocalist of the duo - Jazz & Improvisation
Concerts / Georg Ruby Village Zone
Vocalist of the quartet, touring Germany - Jazz & Improvisation