Meet Sophie
Sophie is a London-based writer and comedian across stage and screen. Her work is zany, dark, and dry. She is interested in messy women, the holy pursuit of lesbianity, and the absurd gap between who people think they are and how they actually behave.
After selling out Riverside Studios with her award-winning debut play, Sophie has developed work with the WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters Lab, Fifth Word Theatre Company, and the Pleasance Theatre. Her screenwriting has placed in the top 10% of the BBC Writersroom Open Call. Sophie is also active on the stand up circuit. Highlights include Backyard, Up the Creek, and Soho Theatre.
Nice things
Winner of the Harry Porter Prize for Comedy · Shortlisted for the BBC New Comedy Awards · Top 10% of BBC Writersroom submissions · Soho Theatre + Lab Alum · Selected for the Pleasance Theatre's inaugural Bridges festival
From the People
"Really f***ing funny."
VARSITY
"Lively and immensely watchable."
Reviews Hub
"Woke luvvie"
The Daily Mail
Selected Writing
FOUR LOSERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (AND BETTY) - 2026
Comedy play · Pleasance Theatre London
In small-town Missouri, four miscreant teenagers are doing community service at Betty's church when the tornado warning comes. Is it really a tornado - or is it the end of the world? A sharp new comedy about coming of age in a time of conspiracy and Christianity.
Being developed with the Pleasance as part of their inaugural Bridges festival for December 2026, following rehearsed reading in April.
would you still love me if i was a selkie - 2025
Comedy play · Nottingham Playhouse
Layla is in a rut, torn between her immigrant mother's expectations and the woman she wants to be. Then one summer's day, stagnant Leicester is thrown for a loop when a selkie is spotted in the River Soar - and Layla meets the woman of her dreams.
Developed with Fifth Word Theatre Company as one of the Fifth Word Playwrights 2025 · Performed as part of a showcase at the Nottingham Playhouse, dir. Diane Page.
SECOND TEMPLE - 2024
Comedy play, then adapted into sitcom pilot · Multiple Theatres & Television
A domestic dark comedy following a dysfunctional Iraqi-Jewish family after grandad dies and nan starts up a raunchy affair with her teenage sweetheart.
THEATRE: Winner of the Harry Porter Prize for Comedy · Sold out the Corpus Playroom (Cambridge) and Riverside Studios (London) dir. Mimi Pattinson · 4 stars from Varsity, the Reviews Hub
SITCOM: Won a place on the WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters Lab · Top 10% of BBC Writersroom submissions
Stand Up
Beating Up the Creek's infamous blackout.