About Sophia
Sophia is a London based actor, dancer, and movement director who hails from Birmingham, Alabama.
Sophia trained as a classical ballet dancer with the Alabama Dance Theatre, where she danced as a member of the corps de ballet for 6 years. Performance repertoire included Fokin and Petipa's original choreography of Les Sylphides, Swan Lake, and Paquita...as well as new productions of Cinderella, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, and contemporary works 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 performed in dance festivals and competitions around the southeast, including SERBA, and was a placing finalist in the Dance Division of the Alabama ACES competition.
Sophia's work as a choreographer has been seen in both opera and theatre productions, including: Hamlet (Opera Birmingham), The Desert Song, and Die Fledermaus (Birmingham Music Club) as well as various Broadway style concerts and full scale school productions of The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, and Meet Me in St. Louis. Last year Sophia choreographed a production of The Sound of Music for London's Bayswater Suzuki Group Summer Extravaganza and most recently was fight choreographer for both the world premiere of The Twelve Chairs, at the Embassy Theatre and a performance excerpt of a new play entitled, NOISE, by Freya Storch for the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama BA Performance Arts Showcase 2019.
Sophia found her voice and a passion for singing through performing in high school musicals and received a B.A. in Music from the University of Montevallo, graduating in 2015, Magna Cum Laude.
While in college, she sang professionally with Opera Birmingham and Birmingham Music Club, performing in productions of La Traviata, Hamlet, La Boheme and Die Fledermaus. She was also a placing finalist in the Vocal Division of the Alabama ACES competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.
From 2009-2011 she studied B.A. Acting at Faulkner University (USA) and has studied acting and stage combat at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival since 2009. In 2016 she graduated from the Michael Howard Studios Summer Acting Conservatory in NYC and in 2018 she graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with an MA in Music Theatre. Sophia's professional stage debut was as Mary Tudor in the Robert Richmond adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry VIII at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (originally produced at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC). Since then, her professional acting repertoire has included physical comedy, film noir, dark comedy film, and historical and classical drama.
Sophia trained as a classical ballet dancer with the Alabama Dance Theatre, where she danced as a member of the corps de ballet for 6 years. Performance repertoire included Fokin and Petipa's original choreography of Les Sylphides, Swan Lake, and Paquita...as well as new productions of Cinderella, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, and contemporary works 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 performed in dance festivals and competitions around the southeast, including SERBA, and was a placing finalist in the Dance Division of the Alabama ACES competition.
Sophia's work as a choreographer has been seen in both opera and theatre productions, including: Hamlet (Opera Birmingham), The Desert Song, and Die Fledermaus (Birmingham Music Club) as well as various Broadway style concerts and full scale school productions of The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, and Meet Me in St. Louis. Last year Sophia choreographed a production of The Sound of Music for London's Bayswater Suzuki Group Summer Extravaganza and most recently was fight choreographer for both the world premiere of The Twelve Chairs, at the Embassy Theatre and a performance excerpt of a new play entitled, NOISE, by Freya Storch for the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama BA Performance Arts Showcase 2019.
Sophia found her voice and a passion for singing through performing in high school musicals and received a B.A. in Music from the University of Montevallo, graduating in 2015, Magna Cum Laude.
While in college, she sang professionally with Opera Birmingham and Birmingham Music Club, performing in productions of La Traviata, Hamlet, La Boheme and Die Fledermaus. She was also a placing finalist in the Vocal Division of the Alabama ACES competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.
From 2009-2011 she studied B.A. Acting at Faulkner University (USA) and has studied acting and stage combat at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival since 2009. In 2016 she graduated from the Michael Howard Studios Summer Acting Conservatory in NYC and in 2018 she graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with an MA in Music Theatre. Sophia's professional stage debut was as Mary Tudor in the Robert Richmond adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry VIII at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (originally produced at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC). Since then, her professional acting repertoire has included physical comedy, film noir, dark comedy film, and historical and classical drama.