About
Sofia is a theater and film director who uses her background in acting and movement to guide her collaboration and process. Sofia creates art about fierce, flawed, and gross women in order to peel away social layers of artifice and interrogate what it means to be human.
She began directing in high school to create more opportunities for her fellow actors and to start conversations. Her initial works include productions of 12 Angry Jurors & The Tectonic Theater Company's The Laramie Project.
After her freshman year at CMU School of Drama, she worked as an intern for Francis Ford Coppola and became the script supervisor for the development of American Zoetrope "Project SJ - S22," ultimately learning to think in camera angles and cuts.
During her Sophomore year, Sofia learned to fence for the role of Jamie in a CMU Capstone production of Gracie Gardner's Athena and assistant directed a production of The Adrienne Kennedy Plays, and a New Works production of Real Girls.
Sofia studied Acting at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama January -July 2023, performing in productions of Lucy Kirkwood's The Welkin and Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. She also wrote, directed and stared in a one-person-show "Horatia's Understudy" as part of the Self Lead Festival. In Wales, Sofia learned the true necessity of artistic failure and the freedom and growth that follow it.
This past year, Sofia directed her capstone production of Macbeth and made her first short film.
She will be studying Acting at Stella Adler's Enhanced Curriculum Summer Conservatory program this summer in NYC to supplement her directing practice. She is also developing a five minute short film to shoot this August. Learn more about these works in her portfolio!