Cast and Creatives
Bertha: Jeannette Meinl
Bernard: Pete Steele
Robert: Robert G. Neumayr
Gretchen: Lisa Gray
Gloria: Caroline Krug
Gabriella: Helena Steele
Director: Lisa Gray
Producers: Jeannette Meinl, Joanna Godwin-Seidl (vienna theatre project)
Assistant Director: Nicola Segur (Open House Theatre)
Dance Captain & Assistant Stage Manager: Virginia Rose Bailey
Set Design: Viktor Löwy and Matthias Mewald
Sound & lighting technicians: Hannah Herok, Jean Baptiste
Music: 2nd year students BSA (Bilinguale Schauspielakademie)
FOH & Stage Management: Hannah Herok
FOH: 2nd year students BSA (Bilinguale Schauspielakademie)
Ticketing and Assistant Stage Manager: Mira Häfele
Poster, Illustrations & Website: Gernot Ottowitz
Production Photos: Ine & Thomas Photography
Jeannette Meinl
Producer, BerthA
Jeannette Meinl studied acting at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London. She has since appeared in numerous plays such as Le Jeu de L’Amour et Du hazard by Marivaux, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Der Besuch der Alten Dame by Dürenmatt, The Provoked Wife by Vanbrugh, Private Lives by Noel Coward, performed at Vienna’s English Theatre and several readings such as Heinrich Heine, Frederick Forsyth and Dickens’ The Christmas Carrol. She has directed Arms and The Man at the AIS (American International School). Her performances include Don‘t dress for Dinner by Marc Camoletti, performed at the Schönbrunner Schlosstheater, Vienna, Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn, Private Lives by Noel Coward, Boeing Boeing by Marc Camoletti at the Stadttheater Walfischgasse and Perfect Wedding by Robin Hawdon. She founded the group Art For Charity where she raises money for charity through her performances. Jeannette likes to create new projects and enjoys bringing witty English plays to Vienna.
Joanna Godwin-Seidl
Producer
Born in the UK, Joanna Godwin-Seidl studied theatre and film in the UK and Vienna. Since 2006 she leads vienna theatre project, producing and directing contemporary theatre in English and German across genres.
Her directing work includes Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (Ronacher Theater, musical development project), The Barber of Seville (Klassikfestival Schloss Kirchstetten), The Last Five Years, Tick, Tick… Boom!, and Marry Me a Little (Theater Drachengasse). She is known for staging socially and politically resonant plays such as Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced, Waleed Akhtar’s The P Word, Robert Schenkkan’s Building the Wall, and Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, three of which received Pick of the Week recognition from Falter.
As an actress, she has appeared in Psychosis 4.48, Private Lives, Airswimming, and Dangerous Liaisons.
Recent highlights include Dreck (Kultursommer Wien), the multi-award-winning production of English by Sanaz Toossi, and most recently Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill in Vienna and Berlin, followed by a successful run of My Old Ladyat Theater Drachengasse. She continues to support charitable initiatives through her collaboration with Art for Charity.
For more information: www.joannagodwinseidl.com and www.viennatheatreproject.com for upcoming shows.
lisa
gray
Director,
Gretchen
Raised in Austria and the UK, Lisa trained at Guildford School of Acting and the California State University, Sacramento, where she received a BA in Acting and MA in Directing. Since then she has worked in theatres in the UK (West End, Yvonne Arnaud Guildford...) and Austria (Wiener Metropol, Bregenzer Festspielhaus, Theater an der Josefstadt, Kammerspiele Graz...). In the US she toured with Tom Hanks' Bay Area Shakespeare Company as Ophelia, played Elsa in Hollywood's Disneyland and Jessica Rabbit at the Universal Studios. As a Mocap Artist Lisa played Lara Croft for the Game "Shadow of the Tomb Raider" and recently worked for Marvel. Lisa has worked for the ORF (Jahresrückblick Comedy) and as TV Host and Director for the BBC London and Surrey. Vienna's English Audience might remember her as Eliza in "Pygmalion" (Juliusburg), Helga in "Bedful of Foreigners" (MUTH), Moxie in "Realive Values" (Studio Moliere), Christmas Past in "Christmas Carol" or Mrs.Chiltern in "An Ideal Husband" (both Theater Spielraum).
Next to acting and directing Lisa runs the BSA- Die Bilinguale Schauspielakademie für Film und Bühne (www.schauspielakademie.at), where she also teaches.
Pete
Steele
Bernard
Peter was born and raised in West Sussex, studied theatre at Aberystwyth University and trained as an actor at Drama Studio London.
His acting credits include the Olivier Award nominated Room on the Broom (West End and UK No.1 tour), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Southwark Playhouse), Spike (King's Head Theatre), Just So Stories (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), House of Sock (Wilton's Music Hall), Pal Street Boys (Greenwich Theatre), Blue (Park Theatre) and the 2x Off-West End Award nominated Nicholas Nickleby. He has also appeared in several short films and multiple commercials.
His theatre credits in Vienna include Roland in Constellations, Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband, Tybalt in Romeo & Juliet, and Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker (all with Open House Theatre). His other credits in Vienna include The Duchess of Malfi (Wide Open Vienna/Open House Theatre), N (Vienna Theatre Project), and The Glass Menagerie (Vienna's English Theatre)
Over the past four years, he has written, directed, and produced three award-winning puppetry films: The Bird, ROY, and The Scaryglow. The Bird premiered at the Irish Film Institute in 2022.
As well as working as an actor and puppeteer, he is also a puppet builder and workshop leader.
Robert G Neumayr
Robert
Robert was born in Salzburg and raised in Vienna. He received his training in musical theatre at Performing Arts Studios Vienna and graduated in 2006. His credits throughout the years include musicals and plays, both in German and in English alike.
He appeared in Valentinstag mit Charlie Brown at Theater Center Forum, Daisys König at Oberanger Theater Munich, Honk!, Pinocchio, Just So and Alice im Wunderland at Theater der Jugend, Der Vetter aus Dingsda at Schlossfestspiele Stadl, Artus and Stayin’ Alive at Sommerfestspiele Melk, as well as various Shakespeare productions such as Ein Wintermärchen at Theater in der Kulturfabrik Helfenberg, as well as Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer NIght’s Dream at Open House Theatre.
Even though Robert has increasingly changed fields in the last fifteen years to directing, producing and translating, he occasionally still performs and is happy to return to the stage for Art For Charity.
Caroline Krug
Gloria
Caroline Krug (née Ciglenec) was born in Australia and spent her formative years in Houston/Texas before moving to Vienna.
While still in school, she won several prizes at the Austrian and European showdance Championships and she appeared in Die Italienerin in Algiers at the Sommerfestspiele Klosterneuburg, Samt und Seide at the Kammeroper Vienna and The next Generation at the Theater des Augenblicks.
Since then, Caroline has kept a busy schedule and has appeared in Wiener Blut at the Wiener Operettensommer; in Dialogues des Carmelites at the Theater an der Wien as well as in Jesus Christ Superstar. She has played Ginny in Relatively Speaking at the Kammeroper; Sali and Amazon in the Nestroy pieces Zeitvertreib and Häuptling Abendwind at the Wiener Ateliertheater; Martha Crachit and Belle in A Christmas Carol at the Vienna International Theater; and she was a featured dancer in the Musical production Phantasma at the Saarländische Staatstheater in Saarbrücken. Caroline performed at the Operettensommer Kufstein in My fair Lady, in Viktor/Viktoria at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and was also in the Ensemble of Funny Girl at the Oper Graz. The following years she had the privilege of playing Valerie Clark in Stadttheater Klagenfurt’s production of A Chorus Line as well as an ensemble position in The Wizard of Oz.
Her debut at the Wiener Volksoper was with the role of the courtesan Tintinabula in the production Die Spinnen die Römer! She was also part of the original cast in their production of Kiss me Kate and was last seen as a Kit Kat Girl in the recent production Cabaret.
Helena Steele
Gabriella
Helena studied acting at LAMDA in London and has been working as a director, producer, writer/translator and actor since 2009.
Credits include: „Marchen ohne Ende" (Kabarett Simpl, 2025), „Venus & Jupiter" (Theater im Park, 2024), „Romeo & Julia" (Shakespeare in Mödling, 2023), „Sommernachtstraum" (Theater im Park, 2022), "Manche mögen's voll verschleiert" (Salzburger Landestheater, 2022), „Die Frauenvolksversammlung" (Sommerspiele Melk, 2020), „Julius Caesar" (Bronski & Grünberg Theater, 2019), „Richard III." (Bronski & Grünberg Theater, 2019), „Werther" (Bronski & Grünberg Theater and on tour, 2016-2020), as well as productions with Theater in der Josefstadt, Rabenhof Theater and Festspiele Berndorf.
She has been a frequent collaborator of Open House Theatre and joined the board in 2024. Credits for Open House Theatre include: „A Christmas Carol" (2016-2019 and 2025), „Lily in Fairytale Land" (2016), „Much Ado About Nothing" (2017), “The Effect" (2019).