Stéphanie Draber

Stephanie Bataille, born Stephanie Draber on 7 June 1973 in Paris 16e, is a French humorist and comedian. She is the daughter of the actor Etienne Draber (1939-2021) and a mother who was an international civil servant at UNESCO. Her brother, Stanislas Draber, is a florist and poet. During her youth, Stephanie Bataille wished to become an actress. To reassure her parents she studied art history from 1984 while taking up dramatic art in parallel at the cours Florent, and supported herself with small jobs, working notably as a saleswoman at Hermes. In 1991 she passed an audition and entered the Comedie-Francaise, where she held a small role in the historical drama Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo, staged by Jean-Luc Boutte. She made her screen debut in Alliance cherche doigt by Jean-Pierre Mocky and appeared in television series such as Madame le Proviseur and Navarro.

In 2003 she began writing a one-woman-show titled Les Hommes, and the following year performed it for the first time in Lyon. It was staged by Roger Louret and sponsored by the humorist Guy Bedos; she performed it in the provinces, then was billed at the Palais des glaces in Paris for ten months, and Elie Semoun invited her as the opening act of his show at the Olympia. She performed several times in Les Monologues du vagin, a play by the playwright Eve Ensler, first in 2004 at the theatre du Rond-Point as part of the V-day organized for the feminist association Ni putes ni soumises, then in 2007 at the theatre Michel. She interpreted the art collector and patron Peggy Guggenheim in the play dedicated to her by Lanie Robertson, Peggy Guggenheim, femme face a son miroir, created in 2011 at the theatre de la Huchette, and since 2017 has interpreted Madame Marguerite in the play of the same name based on the text by Roberto Athayde.

In 2008 she presented the talk-show 23 la v'la on the local channel NRJ Paris. She is part of the Bande a Ruquier and joined the jury of the television program On n'demande qu'a en rire in April 2014, and Les Grosses Tetes in June 2015. Her first novel, Une heure quatorze, appeared in 2010 with L'Editeur, and Mon histoire c'est votre histoire (Covid 19- Adieux interdits) appeared on 2 June 2021. Since 2011 she has been deputy director of the theatre Antoine, and since 2025 deputy director of the Theatre des Mathurins. She is a patron of the feminist association Ni putes ni soumises, and in March 2021 founded with Laurent Fremont the collective Tenir ta main, so that the right to visit in hospitals and EHPADs could not be denied.