Sophie is a writer and performer of theatre, radio and literature. Following her Clore Fellowship in 2018, she set up Augmented Productions, supported by Told by an Idiot. She is part of the BBC Writers Room Access Group, and has written for ‘Eastenders’ and ‘Casualty’, with her episodes of ‘Casualty’ being nominated for a BAFTA in 2021.
Sophie‘s one person show, ‘Augmented’, (directed by Rachel Bagshaw), won the Pulse Festival Suitcase Day Prize and was part of the FiRST BiTE season of work in progress shows at Ovalhouse before touring the UK. Other stage plays include When to Run (Soho Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, UK tour) and Fight Face (Lyric Hammersmith). In 2012 she created ‘Bee Detective’, a children’s show for London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, which was performed in English, British Sign Language and featured animation by James Merry.
As an actress, Sophie starred in ‘Veneer’, a short film for Film 4/BSL Zone and collaborated with Dudley Rees to make a Covid 19 response film ‘Best in Lockdown’.
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