​Sasha Weiss grew up singing and doing community theatre in her hometown of Encino, CA. She made the big move out east to attend The Boston Conservatory and graduated in May 2007. She then moved to NYC to live the dream. Right off the bat she booked her first show I and Albert at The York Theatre, directed by Michael Montel. She also found an improv family with Eight is Never Enough, performing at The Laugh Factory every weekend. While doing that, she was cast in the 2 night extravaganza Jerry Springer the Opera at Carnegie Hall starring Harvey Keitel, Emily Skinner, Max Von Essen, and directed by Jason Moore, music directed by Stephen Oremus.
She went on her very first TV audition for ABC’s What Would You Do? and booked it. She was flown off to Paris to film the season premiere episode “Ugly Americans in Paris”. Once she got back to the big apple she started performing a series of themed cabarets, Sasha Sings… throughout the next year and a half. But she was quickly called back to ABC’s What Would You Do? to film another episode entitled “Overly Friendly Customers” in Las Vegas. She returned to NYC and to The York Theatre in The Grand Tour in May 2009. She studied under the inspirational Craig Carnelia in his musical performance class, and has studied improv at UCB (the Upright Citizens Brigade). In November 2009 she was cast in the amazing Industry reading of Carrie: The Musical among an all-star cast including Sutton Foster and the late Marin Mazzie. The reading was directed by Stafford Arima and she worked once again with Music Director Stephen Oremus.
She has performed for many new composer showcases and readings, working with some amazing talents such as Joel Waggoner, Ryan Scott Oliver, and Brandon James Gwinn. She returned yet again to the York Theatre in Colette Collage, once again with director Michael Montel. Sasha was accepted into San Diego State University’s MFA Musical Theatre program in 2012. Before she moved, she couldn’t help but doing several cabarets and one last NY industry reading of Dig Lenny Bruce, starring Mario Cantone and Mary Testa, directed by Jerry Dixon.
Sasha graduated in May 2014 with her MFA in Musical Theatre from San Diego State University. Since graduating, she has taught in the BFA Musical Theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in Hollywood, then moved back to NYC was faculty at Pace University and Marymount Manhattan College. She continued performing in many workshops, including B.D. Wong and Wayne Barker’s musical version of the movie Mister Holland’s Opus.
Due to the pandemic, Sasha and her husband left NYC in 2020 to move to San Diego. She found a wonderful home there, performing at San Diego Musical Theater in Fiddler on the Roof, Hello Dolly, The Prom, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (coming up in February 2026). She and her husband recently relocated once again up to the central coast of California in San Luis Obispo to be close to her dad. Sasha is still performing up and down the coast! She is looking forward to performing at San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre in June of 2026 in their production of A Grand Night for Singing.