Collaboration with League of Professional Women in Theatre/Oral History Program, Co-Chair, Sophia Romma, at the Lincoln Center Library, featuring Lynn Nottage.

      Hossein Fassa’s Director’s Note   I have often been excited and transfixed by the magical communal aspect of the theatre mostly because it entails the delicate, intricate process of the communing of a group of nomadic folks with vastly disparate backgrounds yet a shared common goal: to bring ideas to life with themselves as the instruments. […]

Enthusiasts and admirers of musical theatre and pop culture caught an enthralling overdose of Steven Schwartz on April 16th, when a star studded ensemble of one hundred performers gathered together at legendary Symphony Space on the Upper West Side to witness “Wall to Wall Stephen Schwartz,” a free eight-hour musical smorgasbord for the discriminate palate. […]

The NYU Alumni Association (NYUAA) represents all NYU alumni, from every NYU school and department—a community nearly half-a-million strong. The diverse and active NYUAA Board of Directors is made up of alumni volunteers who steer the Association in their mission to engage and support alumni. Sophia Romma (TSOA ’95, ’97) is a veteran member of the Board and is […]

This week on HowlRound, we continue the conversation on gender parity, which has been gaining momentum this year through studies, articles, forums, one-on-one discussions, and seasons and festivals focused on women. As Co-President of the Women in the Arts & Media Coalition and VP of Programming for the League of Professional Theatre Women, I have the pleasure of […]

A Preface by John Farrell (Director) Sophia Romma is not your ordinary playwright. She is, rather, in a class all by herself. While some of her work conforms (slightly) to more conventional models (I conjure up, for example her elegiac portrait of exiled bi-sexual Russian poetess, Marina Tsvetaeva, the heroine of her play from The Past […]

NEW YORK, July 7 – The human condition of gays in contemporary Russia mirrors life in a phantasmagoric insane asylum.  That’s the view of a new play, “That Queer Blind Silence” (www.thatqueerblindsilence.com) by émigré playwright Sophia Romma.  Her political farce, written in English but in the style of Russian Expressionism, depicts the ordeals of a fictional figure skater whose character was […]

In 2013, The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF)’s fourteenth season featured a slate of full-length plays and musicals, as well as Short Subjects. Sophia Romma’s “The Past Is Still Ahead” was part of the line-up. Although Ms. Bodner had passed away suddenly in August of 2011 from breast cancer at the tender age of 43, […]