Ann Mandrella

Born in Besançon, France. She studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and at the dance and singing studio of the Theater an der Wien.
She is one of the few German-speaking performers to have played roles on and off Broadway in New York. She played Babette in Disney's Beauty and the Beast at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, and was a soloist in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well at the Zipper Theatre.
Other engagements in German-speaking countries included:
Kate in Kiss Me, Kate at the Kittsee Summer Festival; Lisa in Ich war noch niemals in New York at the Raimund Theatre, Vienna/Germany tour; Gitta in Pardon My English at the Staatsoperette Dresden; Evita in Evita at the Stadttheater Dortmund; Ellie in Show Boat at the Stadttheater Bern; Queenie in The Wild Party in Amstetten and Klagenfurt; Lydia in the world premiere of Wake Up! at the Raimund Theatre, Vienna; Roxie in Chicago (Walter Bobbie/Ann Reinking revival) in Vienna, Berlin, Basel, Munich and Düsseldorf; Babette in Disney's Beauty and the Beast at the European premiere in Vienna and the German premiere in Stuttgart; Gabby/Bobby in City of Angels in Amstetten. She also played Anita in West Side Story, Cha Cha in Grease at the Raimundtheater in Vienna, Rita La Porta in Lucky Stiff at the Wiener Kammerspiele, Dolly in Hello, Dolly! at the Lehár Festival in Bad Ischl; Diana in the comedy Otello muss platzen at the Akzent Theater in Vienna; Mercedes in Der Graf von Monte Christo at the Frankenfestspiele in Röttingen; Babette in Wittenbrink's world premiere Schön, Schön, Schön at the Vienna Kammerspiele; the title role in Viktor/Viktoria at the Stadttheater in Klagenfurt; Mrs Meldock in Der geheime Garten at the Frankenfestspiele in Röttingen; Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde at the Burgfestspiele in Zwingenberg; and She in Marry Me a Little. Kathy in The Last 5 Years, together with her husband Drew Sarich, in Vienna; the title role in Kuss der Spinnenfrau (Kiss of the Spider Woman); and Lady Thiang in Der König und ich (The King and I) at the Bühne Baden. She was also a soloist in The Secret Party Jacques Brel 1968 at the Vindobona.