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 ballets such as A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, Messiah, and other works set by resident and guest choreographers. In 2008 she attended the Joffrey Ballet School in NYC and in 2009 she enjoyed a diverse performing schedule in dance festivals and competitions 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 in London, UK. Prior to and during university, Sophia trained in classical piano and sang with multiple choirs and chamber ensembles, which toured around the U.S. After university, Sophia performed with Alabama's two professional opera companies and relished the world of classical music. She then moved to NYC to train more extensively in Shakespeare performance and stage combat at the Michael Howard Studios Acting Conservatoire, 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. Sophia is a certified fighter with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat.
Favourite acting credits include: Ophelia (Hamlet), Mary Tudor (Henry VIII), Katherina Minola (The Taming of the Shrew), Olivia (Twelfth Night), Mariana (Measure For Measure), Duchess of Aumerle (Richard II), Hedda Gabler (Hedda Gabler), Evelyn Nesbit (Ragtime), Brooke Ashton (Noises Off), Kyra Hollis (Skylight), Laura Wingfield (The Glass Menagerie), Miss Julie (Miss Julie), Guenevere (Camelot), Blanche Ingram (Jane Eyre), Shelby (Steel Magnolias), Marie Grosholtz (The Scarlet Pimpernel), 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 Bat Out of Hell, Chicago, The Sound of Music, Bye Bye Birdie, Guys and Dolls, Singing In The Rain, Hamlet (opera), Die Fledermaus, The Desert Song, Annie, Fiddler on the Roof, The Music Man, and Meet Me in St. Louis.
As a fight choreographer/captain and movement director, she has worked on such shows as The Twelve Chairs (London's Embassy Theatre), Ricky Riddlegang and the Riddlegang (New Wimbledon Theatre/Brighton Fringe/Edinburgh Fringe), Macbeth (Willow Globe), Twelfth Night, As You Like It, and Mercutio (60 Hour Shakespeare/Reading Abbey Ruins), Ashes (Teatro Technis), Noise (The Others), and Goodsuppas (Proud Embankment).
As a writer, Sophia penned 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 Festival: Song For Nature, filmed by Sky Arts at the London Coliseum and performed with the English National Opera Orchestra.
She has also written and produced a film on Glaciers, in collaboration with Dr. Eric Rignot, world leading glaciologist and Chancellor Professor of Earth Systems Science at University of California, Irvine. This film has been chosen for the official selections lists of both the Nature Without Borders and Documentaries Without Borders International Film Festivals for 2024.
In 2020, she wrote the screenplay and musical score 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 in London, UK. Prior to and during university, Sophia trained in classical piano and sang with multiple choirs and chamber ensembles, which toured around the U.S. After university, Sophia performed with Alabama's two professional opera companies and relished the world of classical music. She then moved to NYC to train more extensively in Shakespeare performance and stage combat at the Michael Howard Studios Acting Conservatoire, 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. Sophia is a certified fighter with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat.
Favourite acting credits include: Ophelia (Hamlet), Mary Tudor (Henry VIII), Katherina Minola (The Taming of the Shrew), Olivia (Twelfth Night), Mariana (Measure For Measure), Duchess of Aumerle (Richard II), Hedda Gabler (Hedda Gabler), Evelyn Nesbit (Ragtime), Brooke Ashton (Noises Off), Kyra Hollis (Skylight), Laura Wingfield (The Glass Menagerie), Miss Julie (Miss Julie), Guenevere (Camelot), Blanche Ingram (Jane Eyre), Shelby (Steel Magnolias), Marie Grosholtz (The Scarlet Pimpernel), 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 Bat Out of Hell, Chicago, The Sound of Music, Bye Bye Birdie, Guys and Dolls, Singing In The Rain, Hamlet (opera), Die Fledermaus, The Desert Song, Annie, Fiddler on the Roof, The Music Man, and Meet Me in St. Louis.
As a fight choreographer/captain and movement director, she has worked on such shows as The Twelve Chairs (London's Embassy Theatre), Ricky Riddlegang and the Riddlegang (New Wimbledon Theatre/Brighton Fringe/Edinburgh Fringe), Macbeth (Willow Globe), Twelfth Night, As You Like It, and Mercutio (60 Hour Shakespeare/Reading Abbey Ruins), Ashes (Teatro Technis), Noise (The Others), and Goodsuppas (Proud Embankment).
As a writer, Sophia penned 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 Festival: Song For Nature, filmed by Sky Arts at the London Coliseum and performed with the English National Opera Orchestra.
She has also written and produced a film on Glaciers, in collaboration with Dr. Eric Rignot, world leading glaciologist and Chancellor Professor of Earth Systems Science at University of California, Irvine. This film has been chosen for the official selections lists of both the Nature Without Borders and Documentaries Without Borders International Film Festivals for 2024.
In 2020, she wrote the screenplay and musical score for an original short film, Always Alice, which was given Honorable Mention at the 2021 International Vienna Film Awards.
