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“During a standout seance scene in [SINNER SUPPER CLUB], Sagan-Gutherz
delivers an incredible performance as the late friend.” - DenOfGeek
“Best Queer Short: BUBBE & TAL. For its tender, quietly radical
portrait of intergenerational connection, illuminating the unexpected
bonds of family, identity, and healing through humor.” - IndieWire
“[POSSUM] is darkly funny and deeply unsettling…sharp editing,
committed performances, and a biting script.” - RueMorgueMag
lately
BUBBE&TAL won Best Queer Short at Provincetown Film Festival (Jury Prize, Academy Award® Qualifying) (writer/producer)
Sinner Supper Club feature film
World Premiere at SXSW
(actor/producer/EP)
CoNToRTeD, Bushwick Starr Reading Series (writer/actor)
contact
sophiesagangutherz@gmail.com
hello! my name is sophie (they/them). i'm a wannabe goth covered in cat hair! i’m an actor and writer across stage/screen! i’ve been compared to great weird men such as Yorgos Lanthimos and Mel Brooks!
as a screenwriter and filmmaker, i’ve created three films in three years under Alien Butterfly, my production company which focuses on queer and genre stories. My first film POSSUM
(actor/writer/producer) streamed on SHUDDER in partnership with Access:Horror, where it won Best Short. It played festivals across the globe, including Final Girls Berlin (Audience Award, Queer Horror) and Slamdance, where it was then invited to join the Unstoppable on the Road tour in art houses across the country. From there, I helped to create the feature film SINNER SUPPER CLUB (actor/producer), an improvised gay mumblecore ghost story shot in
six days on an iPhone (World Premiere SXSW).
I’m a past Screamwriting Fellowship nominee
(Blumhouse/Sundance), and am currently developing the feature film BUBBE & TAL alongside Daisy Rosato, whose proof of concept is on the festival circuit (World Premiere Provincetown Film Fest - Jury Prize, Best Queer Short). I’m also a proud film programmer for
Slamdance and Brooklyn Horror.
as a performer, most recently I starred in the short film Vanilla where I play a dog. I’ve also developed new theatrical works with The Bushwick Starr, The Public, Ars Nova, TFANA, LCT3, Williamstown, Forestburgh Playhouse + more. ———-> acting resume
as a theatremaker I’m an alum of: the Bushwick Starr Reading Series, Breaking the Binary, The Jam (New Georges), Pride Plays, Irons in the Fire (Faultline Theatre), Playground Playgroup + BRB Retreat (Freshground Pepper), The Greenhouse Lab (Orchard Project), and The Barn at Lee (Resident Artist). Always a finalist, never a bride: The Mastheads Writers-in-Residence, Producer Hub Independent Arts Producer Residency, Emerging Writers Group (The Public), Writer/Director Lab (Soho Rep), R&D Group (The Civilians), Youngblood (EST), J. Michael Friedman Fellowship (Williamstown), New Roots Residency. I’m also a two-time semifinalist for NPC (The O’Neill) and am a New Georges Affiliated Artist.
———-> new play exchange
as a production accessibility coordinator, I’ve assisted on TV and Film, including Fine Probably, starring Marissa Bode (Wicked), and Furious (Hulu).