Abby Wilde

Abigail Miriam Dauermann (born February 25, 1989), better known by her stage name Abby Wilde, is an American actress and singer who rose to fame for her role as Stacey Dillsen on Zoey 101, iCarly and Sam & Cat. In 2009, Wilde starred in her first full-length feature film, Family of Four, which is her only film role to date.

Abby Wilde was born Abigail Miriam Dauermann in San Francisco, California. She began acting at the age of 12, beginning in a class with her brothers at the local YMCA branch. Since then, she has appeared in the casts of many plays, Shakespeare performances, opera concerts, one-act play festivals, and musicals, both in Los Angeles and New York City.

2006–2008: Zoey 101

In 2006, Wilde was cast as a recurring role on the Nickelodeon hit television show Zoey 101 as Stacey Dillsen. Although the role was only supposed to appear once, Wilde made such an impression that she became a frequent guest on the show. Wilde appeared in the show for thirty-one episodes between 2006 and 2008. Wilde starred in several made for television Zoey 101 films; "Zoey 101: The Curse of PCA" (2007), "Zoey 101: Goodbye Zoey?" (2008), and the show's final episode "Zoey 101: Chasing Zoey" (2008).

2009–present: Post-Zoey 101 and film appearances

Wilde later appeared as Stacey Dillsen on several other shows created by Dan Schneider including Sam & Cat in 2013 and iCarly in 2010, and 2011. In 2009, Wilde starred in her first full-length feature film, Family of Four, a drama written and directed by John Suits. Wilde starred alongside Baywatch star Alexandra Paul. The film was released in 2009.

2019: Zoey 101 reboot buzz

In 2019, Wilde joined fellow Zoey 101 castmates for an impromptu reunion, which quickly started a buzz about the possibility of a reboot returning to the small screen.

Wilde has been an active member of the theatrical community, both in the greater Los Angeles area as well as New York City.In LA, she was a part of Antaeus Theatre Company, which is a cooperative theatre ensemble composed of classically trained and highly accomplished professional actors, directors, designers, and other theatre artists dedicated to bringing classical theatre to Los Angeles. Since Antaeus works primarily with film actors who also wish to work in theatre, most plays are double cast, so that actors can fulfill their film requirements and make performances. With Antaeus, Wilde performed many roles, including Emilia from The Malcontent. Other roles include Uta Hagen in Ten Chimneys (Artists Repertory Theatre), Viola in Twelfth Night, Juliet in Juliet and Her Romeo (VanguardRep), Doris Shattock in Peace in Our Time, Richard, Duke of Gloucester in Richard III (Pipeline Players) and with Antaeus, Nina in The Seagull (The Antaeus Company) and Helen in The Cripple of Inishmaan.

Shakespeare and New Verse Plays

As well as performing Shakespeare's plays, Wilde has also been involved in several Shakespeare-adjacent plays by new verse dramatists.A few highlights include Shakespeare's "King Phycus" by Tom Willmorth at Antaeus, which imagines a newly discovered "bad quarto" of a Shakespeare play in rhyming couplets. The storyline combines several of Shakespeare's works, including King Lear, Hamlet, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar into a new ‘found’ play that is full of wordplay, double entendres and stage combat.

In New York City, Wilde worked with Shrunken Shakespeare company on IRA in 2015. Wilde also worked closely on a variety of new verse plays with Turn to Flesh Productions (TTF), which develops new plays in heightened text with vibrant roles for women and those underrepresented in classical art. With TTF, Wilde originated several roles with Artistic Director and playwright, Emily C. A. Snyder, including the leading roles of Glorielle of Syracuse in A Comedy of Heirors, or The Imposters, Princess Genevieve in The Other, Other Woman, and acting opposite Snyder as Margaret Ford in The Merry Widows of Windsor at the Sheen Center. Wilde also played the role of Psyche from Snyder's Cupid and Psyche several times, as well as taking on new roles by other verse playwrights.

From 2015 to 2016, Wilde was a co-host on the Shakespeare-inspired podcast, Pith and Moment. She is currently working on the development of several other podcasts and audio dramas which have not yet been released.