Sophie Dushko is an actor, playwright, deviser, and director with an affinity for heightened text, ritual, eroticism, physical story telling, and brazen theatricality.
Most recently, she made her commercial film debut writing and directing RACONTEUR, a fashion and dance film for Christine Alcalay which premiered in Manhattan in October. Following this, Sophie worked on two projects with Invulnerable Nothings, where she is an affiliated artist, raising funds for a Manhattan transfer of her play galatea 2.0 with a 12 hour durational gallery performance and acting in a workshop presentation of Lady Jane Lumley’s translation of Iphigenia at Aulis.
As a playwright, Sophie’s work has been presented and developed in New York, Montreal, and the midwest. In early 2024, her solo play vérité debuted as part of the Spade Collective’s Aces Wild Solo Play Festival in Bushwick, BK. In 2023, her play galatea 2.0 was presented by Invulnerable Nothings and Brooklyn Art Haus as part of the latter’s inaugural season, directed by C.C. Kellogg and she wore multiple (figurative) hats directing a workshop production of her play how would you like me to atone? which ran at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research. Her play the dance was long-listed for The National Playwright’s Conference and a semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award in 2021 after a 6 week virtual development lab with Nervous Theatre in 2020.
Sophie recently made her return to musical theatre and her professional directorial debut co-starring in The Last Five Years at the Studio Grand Central in St. Petersburg, FL (streaming across North America).
As an actor, Sophie has worked with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Off the Grid Theatre Company, and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. She holds a degree in musical theatre from The Boston Conservatory and is a proud National Theatre School of Canada dropout.