Sophie Sagan-Gutherz

“Sophie is so skilled at the quiet simple beauty moments that
take us home. Like after a big storm, picking a worm up off the
sidewalk and bringing it to the grass on the other side.”
- Mack Brown, Director

hello! My name is Sophie [they/them] and my practice involves writing, producing, acting and singing across stage and screen. I revere the overlap of clown and drag and seek out the fine line between laughter and devastation. I recently joined the New Georges Jam and was  commissioned to write for Breaking the Binary (Playwrights Horizons) in partnership with Broadway Play Licensing. My first screenplay POSSUM (actor/writer/producer) has been described as “excellent”, “imaginative” and in the "deadpan comedic style of Jim Jarmusch or Yorgos Lanthimos". POSSUM is also a Hollyshorts Screenplay Quarterfinalist, a Final Girls Berlin Audience Award Winner and is currently on the festival circuit. I'm a Production Accessibility Trainee with the “queercrip” production company indieVISIBLE, a current NYU Tisch Drama Gender Expansive Mentor and the Secretary of my Block Association. Put disabled people in leadership positions! And adopt a cat.                   

“Like if the guts of Clare Barron and the poeticism
of Annie Baker had an irreverent kid.”
- Han Van Sciver, Actor

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October 2024 HollyShorts Monthly Screenings!
(bitpix)

The Horror Short POSSUM is
“the change you wish to see”
(DisabilityBelongs)

Initial Programming Revealed for Third Annual BREAKING THE BINARY THEATRE FESTIVAL
(BroadwayWorld)

NYU Tisch Drama Launches Gender-Expansive Mentorship Program
(Playbill)

Gender, Disability, Transmedia, and Balkan Folklore (HowlRound)

RespectAbility Expands Entertainment Lab From Six Weeks to Five Months (HollywoodReporter)

Theatre [Untitled] Kicks Off 2024 Reading Series With A New Work From M Sloth Levine (BroadwayWorld)

Fault Line Theatre Sets 2023 Season Featuring New Plays in Development (BroadwayWorld)

The OP selected 38 projects or artistic teams from a competitive group of 1,417 applicants
to participate in this year's programs (BroadwayWorld)

12 Theatremakers Celebrating Queer Joy- 3 New Plays Explore Queerness in Islamic, Jewish,
Black, and Italian Communities (Playbill)