About

Sadie Shea is a NYC based actor.

She also works as a director, writer, dancer, choreographer, singer, and cellist… depending on the project. She graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in May 2025 with a BFA in Drama, having trained at the Atlantic Theatre Company, Experimental Theatre Wing, NYU Berlin Program, and Classical Studio.

At NYU she performed in the Tisch Drama Stage show, in lucem, and played Olivia in the Classical Studio's 40 show run of Twelfth Night. Since graduating last spring, she has performed in shows at the People's Improv Theatre, IRT, The Tank, The English Theatre Berlin, and Theatre im Delphi. She has performed new work at La MaMa's Galleria, and as the opening act for SNL's Kenan Thompson.

In 2024, she premiered her new show SMOKESHOW at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She often works in Berlin, where she trained at arthaus.berlin, and recently completed the Schaubühne Prospero International Theatre Festival Mentorship Program. She is a member of the music theatre collective, Opera Lab Berlin, as a performer and choreographer. The group just premiered its newest show "You/Me/Alien" in February 2026. 

She played a feature role in "I'll Be There" (Austin Film Festival) and recently starred in a new short "Carmen" (Big Apple Film Festival, Messina Opera Film Festival). She is currently in post-production for a dance short film she wrote, directed, and performed in. 

She has been commissioned to create and perform an original piece at Cosmic Cherry Arts Festival this spring. The festival runs April 9-11th 2026, at Court Square Theatre, LIC.

Sadie was a 2021 National YoungArts Winner in Theatre. She is SAG-Eligible and, with dual citizenship in the U.S. and Ireland, can work throughout the EU and UK.