Sophia is a director, performer, educator and Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist based in New York City and British Columbia. Sophia’s live performance work has been seen in private and public spaces, theaters and galleries including the Living Theater, the Gene Frankel Theater, Movement Research, the Stella Adler Center for the Arts, the Center for Performance Research, CAVE, the Glasshouse, Triskelion Arts, and Dixon Place.  Since 2014, Sophia has been teaching the Six Viewpoints internationally at Vienna’s ImpulsTanz, Switzerland’s Scuola Teatro Dimitri, Rose Bruford College, Teatro Vertico in Spain, Toneelacadamie Maastricht, Shanghai Theatre Academy and Earthdance.  Sophia is on faculty at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and co-curates the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theater. 

Most recently, Sophia has been researching methods of creating theater and dance for rocks, cliffs and other mineral substances in the Sierra Nevada mountains and on Vancouver Island. She is currently co-directing Small Dance, a documentary in production about Mary Overlie and launched In the Particles, a podcast interrogating postmodern performance practices with genre-smashing artists. Recent works include directing and performing Ephemera, a posthumous collaboration with Mary Overlie with co-director Deborah Black at the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theater, where she was the 2023 Artist in Residence, directing the world premier of A Connected Place at The Gene Frankel Theater (2022), and choreographing music videos for Big Theif’s Mythological Beauty, Hand Habits’ Clean Air and Matt Bachmann’s upcoming IAGDTD.

Sophia is the artistic director of the Six Viewpoints Institute and co-founder of the Mary Overlie Legacy Project. She worked with Mary Overlie, originator of the Six Viewpoints, as a student, teaching assistant, dancer, and close companion throughout the United States, Europe, and China from 2011 until Overlie’s death in June of 2020. Sophia served as a primary reader for the Viewpoints book, Standing in Space: The Six Viewpoints Theory and Practice, and led the physical training of Mary Overlie’s international Viewpoints masterclasses from 2014-2020. Sophia assistant directed and performed in Brain to Brain: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Mary Overlie presented by Movement Research and Dancespace at Saint Mark’s Church. Sophia also performed alongside Overlie at Fool's Fury in San Francisco for the 2016 book launch of Overlie's Standing in Space, and The Bunny Tail Range at the Basin, Montana Artists Refuge in 2012. 

In her research, Sophia yearns to listen to and illuminate the infinite exchange between environment, perception, and consciousness. Her practice centers reconnection with body and land in service of the liberation of our many possible futures.