About

Sofia is a Costa Rican, New York-based theatre artist and collaborator. Born and raised in South Florida, she is attracted to work that promotes untold stories. She believes in the power of storytelling and representation to shape the world we live in. She has a deep love for the Spanish language that began on her summer trips to Costa Rica and has a vested interest in bringing this language to the American stage in a variety of forms. She loves collaborating and creating with groups of artists in service of underrepresented stories that help diversify the American theatrical canon.

She graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre with a concentration in Directing, and Spanish Studies, summa cum laude. During her time at Fordham, she dedicated herself to producing Latine or Spanish-language playwrights, with a passion for bilingual performance and translation for performance. Her Spanish Studies thesis titled “New Methods for Translation and Performance of the Spanish Golden Age: A Case Study of a Virtual Production of Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer” explored the ways new media and performance complete the translation act when staging a Spanish-language play to an English-speaking audience. She hopes to continue these research efforts in her creative and academic work to find new and better forms of translating plays in order to increase the reach and accessibility of the Spanish-langauge canon in the United States. She was also one of the founding members of the Fordham Theatre BIPOC Alliance, created in Summer of 2020 to advocate for the BIPOC theatre students. Since its founding, the Alliance secured intimacy and anti-racism training for the entire theatre department, faculty, staff, and students, and has created a community where the BIPOC students can feel safe. The alliance continues to advocate for change.

Since graduation, she has focused on the development of new work, especially from Latine writers. She has worked on several staged readings and workshop productions, as well as experimental short form theatre works. She is passionate about the working with playwrights to bring their words to life and investigate different modes of storytelling. She focuses on stories about the ordinary, of the everyday people that make life on this earth so special, and she continues to search for artistic homes that share this passion and will help her continue to explore her artistic voice.