OnAIR Players presents Sophia Romma’s “Absolute Clarity”. Two scenes and an interview of the playwright herself. Actors in todays presentation: De’Adre Aziza is a Tony Award nominated (Passing Strange) actor and singer who has appeared in 3 Broadway shows, and numerous Off-Broadway and regional shows. In addition to theater, she has appeared on several TV […]

Penultimate rehearsal for Carte Blanch – written by Sophia Romma. – as part of the Midtown International Festival at The New York Arts on W.43rd and 8th. Featured performers included Cam Kornman, Walter Krochmal, Michael Czyz, Daniel Erikson, Tim Haber and Gavin Roher with Manana providing musical color. John Beshaw-Farrell directed.

Readings of Short Plays By and About Women New York, NY — 365 WOMEN A YEAR: A PLAYWRITING PROJECT involves over 400 women who signed on to write one or more one-acts about extraordinary women in both past and present history.  The project’s goal is to write women back into the social consciousness as well as […]

Casting “Carte Blanche,” a ten-minute play for Midtown Madness Play Festival portraying a former washed up screen siren who fancies that she is Blanche Dubois from “A Streetcar Named Desire”. Searching for a Young German Vacationer on the prowl. Casting “Carte Blanche,” March 2015, a ten-minute play for Midtown Madness Play Festival portraying a former […]

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 think, for example of her elegiac portrait of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, The Past is Still Ahead.  (Which I have also had the pleasure of directing) But it […]

PROFESSIONAL THEATRE WOMEN’S AWARD CEREMONY GILDER/COIGNEY Theatre award was presented to Patricia Ariza from Colombia by the LPTW’s International committee and Co-Chair, Sophia Romma. On Wednesday October 29th, 2014, LA MAMA Theatre in association with The O’Neill Film and Theatrical Foundation and LPTW presented “Change-Making Theatre, a performance and panel event on the Theatre work […]

Polaris North Theatre Collective Presents “Carte Blanche” for “Chance Acts Series.” This short play, written by Sophia Romma and directed by celebrated Irish stage director, John M. Farrell, presents a tale of a popular Broadway actress–her delirious fantasy world of escapism as her searching soul battles against the brutal reality of an aging body and […]

Garden of the Avant-Garde Film and Theatrical Foundation in Collaboration with the League of Professional Women in Theatre Present the Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Awards Panel with international award nominees for best theatrical productions (circa October, 2014).

How did I respond to The Past Is Still Ahead, written and directed by Sophia Romma, at the Midtown International Theatre Festival? Let me count the ways: I thought it was brave, moving, intense, smart, overdone, kinda laughable, and kinda wonderful. Mostly, I admired it. I admired the work and love that went into it. I admired […]