February 19, 2016
THE BLACKLIST (at the 13th Street Rep.)

A medieval allegory unfolds as a mystical Voodoo Body Snatcher arrives at the occult after-life bar on a mission to execute a psychiatrist committed to his personal bedlam. The anti-hero and his Mad-Hatter co-conspirators are entangled in a perverse political hoopla as they fight for their survival in the face of the mighty Grim Reaper’s […]

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February 19, 2016
The Borders That Love Crosses

Two one-act plays by Sophia Romma at the Cherry Lane Theater examine relationships that span cultures. Presented by the Negro Ensemble Company and directed by Charles Weldon. From The New York Times

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February 16, 2016
Meet the NYUAA Board: Sophia Romma (TSOA ’95, ’97)

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 […]

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January 3, 2016
Collaboration with the Dramatist Guild of Canada at the Conference in Toronto: Gender Parity in the theatre, circa 2016
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December 5, 2015
Moving Toward Gender Equity in the Canadian Theatre (HowlRound Article)

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 […]

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September 15, 2015
Foreplay For Broadway publication: That Queer Blind Silence

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 […]

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August 10, 2015
"That Queer Blind Silence" by émigré playwright Sophia Romma dramatizes the repression of the LGBTQ in Russia.

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 […]

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August 9, 2015
Ukrainian Art/Theater Exhibition/Catered Reception at 13th Street Rep

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, […]

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August 8, 2015
The Past is Still Ahead (Seoul, South Korea)

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 […]

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May 12, 2015
OnAir Podcast Presents: Absolute Clarity

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 […]

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