About Sophia
Sophia is an American actor, dancer, choreographer, and movement director based in London. Sophia trained and performed as a classical ballet dancer with the Alabama Dance Theatre school and company (corps de ballet), where she performed such ballets as Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, Paquita, The Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella, as well as contemporary works and ballets set by resident and guest choreographers. In 2008 she was accepted to and attended the Joffrey Ballet School Summer Intensive in NYC and in 2009 she performed in dance festivals around the southeastern United States, including SERBA, and was a placing finalist in the Alabama ACES competition (dance division).
Sophia also studied Shakespeare performance and stage combat at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival before pursuing music at university. She has a BA in Music from the University of Montevallo (USA) and an MA in Music Theatre from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. After university, Sophia trained more extensively in Shakespeare performance and stage combat at the Michael Howard Studios Acting Conservatoire in NYC before moving to London where she has studied Laban and Lecoq techniques with various instructors, as well as further stage combat training with Academy of Performance Combat at Shakespeare's Globe.
Favourite acting credits include: Mary Tudor (Henry VIII), Katherina Minola (Taming of the Shrew), Olivia (Twelfth Night), Duchess of Aumerle (Richard II), Hedda Gabler (Hedda Gabler), Kyra Hollis (Skylight), Laura Wingfield (The Glass Menagerie), Miss Julie (Miss Julie), Guenevere (Camelot), Blanche Ingram (Jane Eyre), and Franca Naccarelli (The Light in the Piazza), as well as numerous performances of new plays, contemporary works, and short films by upcoming playwrights and filmmakers.
As a choreographer, Sophia has staged such shows as Fiddler on the Roof, The Music Man, Meet Me in St. Louis, Annie, The Sound of Music, Bye Bye Birdie, Hamlet (opera), Die Fledermaus, and The Desert Song, and Chicago.
As a fight choreographer/captain and movement director, she has worked on such shows as The Twelve Chairs (Embassy Theatre), Ricky Riddlegang and the Riddlegang (New Wimbledon Theatre/Brighton Fringe/Edinburgh Fringe), Ashes (Teatro Technis), Noise (The Others), and Goodsuppas (Proud Embankment), and Macbeth (Willow Globe).
As a writer, Sophia wrote the lyrics for an environmentally themed parody of John Kander and Fred Ebb's song, Mein Herr, called Mine Here for the inaugural concert of the London Climate Change Featival: A Song For Nature, filmed by SkyArts at the London Coliseum and performed with the English National Opera Orchestra.
She also wrote the screenplay for an original short film, Always Alice, which was given Honorable Mention at the 2021 International Vienna Film Awards.
Sophia also studied Shakespeare performance and stage combat at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival before pursuing music at university. She has a BA in Music from the University of Montevallo (USA) and an MA in Music Theatre from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. After university, Sophia trained more extensively in Shakespeare performance and stage combat at the Michael Howard Studios Acting Conservatoire in NYC before moving to London where she has studied Laban and Lecoq techniques with various instructors, as well as further stage combat training with Academy of Performance Combat at Shakespeare's Globe.
Favourite acting credits include: Mary Tudor (Henry VIII), Katherina Minola (Taming of the Shrew), Olivia (Twelfth Night), Duchess of Aumerle (Richard II), Hedda Gabler (Hedda Gabler), Kyra Hollis (Skylight), Laura Wingfield (The Glass Menagerie), Miss Julie (Miss Julie), Guenevere (Camelot), Blanche Ingram (Jane Eyre), and Franca Naccarelli (The Light in the Piazza), as well as numerous performances of new plays, contemporary works, and short films by upcoming playwrights and filmmakers.
As a choreographer, Sophia has staged such shows as Fiddler on the Roof, The Music Man, Meet Me in St. Louis, Annie, The Sound of Music, Bye Bye Birdie, Hamlet (opera), Die Fledermaus, and The Desert Song, and Chicago.
As a fight choreographer/captain and movement director, she has worked on such shows as The Twelve Chairs (Embassy Theatre), Ricky Riddlegang and the Riddlegang (New Wimbledon Theatre/Brighton Fringe/Edinburgh Fringe), Ashes (Teatro Technis), Noise (The Others), and Goodsuppas (Proud Embankment), and Macbeth (Willow Globe).
As a writer, Sophia wrote the lyrics for an environmentally themed parody of John Kander and Fred Ebb's song, Mein Herr, called Mine Here for the inaugural concert of the London Climate Change Featival: A Song For Nature, filmed by SkyArts at the London Coliseum and performed with the English National Opera Orchestra.
She also wrote the screenplay for an original short film, Always Alice, which was given Honorable Mention at the 2021 International Vienna Film Awards.