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, […]

On August 8, 2015, the celebrated Theater Company Poongkyung shall present the production of “The Portrait of Marina Tsvetaeva" (original title: "The Past is Still Ahead" by internationally award-winning playwright, Dr. Sophia Romma. "The Theater Company Poongkyung is extremely excited to invite playwright Sophia Romma for this special premiere in Seoul, South Korea, as her […]

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 […]