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Sophia Romma

SOPHIA ROMMA

  
Nationality:    USA
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Sophia Romma, talented playwright/screenwriter has graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts (Dramatic Writing Program) at New York University with her M.F.A. Her play, "In the Eyes Of Hope" has been produced at the Jewish Repertory Theater and ran in October of 1998 at La MaMa E.T.C., in New York City. Her critically acclaimed musical Coyote, Take Me there!", directed by the Obie Award winning and Tony nominated Playwright, Colonel Leslie Lee, was also performed at La MaMa Experimental Theater in January of 1999. Sophia "s first screenplay, Across Sadovo Ring Road was optioned by the Disney Motion Picture Group. Her second successful screenplay was finally made into a film. Poor Liza, loosely based on Nikolai Karamsin" short story of the same title and directed by the cult director of Liquid Sky, Slava Tsukerman, has been received with flying colors. the film competed at the Cairo Film Festival, participated in the hors concourse demonstration during the 21st Moscow International Film Festival, Shown atthe Anthology Film Archives in Greenwich Village and Show-cased at Sochi Film Festival in RussiA.the film has won the Grand Prix Garnet Bracelet for best screenplay at the prestigious Gatchena Literature and Film Festival (St.Petersburg 2001). Poor Liza stars the Academy Award Nominee, Ben Gazzara, Academy Award Winner Lee Grant, and Barbora BabulovA.Recently Sophia Romma"s book of poetry entitled "God and the Good" was published. Her play, "Coyote, Take Me there!" along with nine short stories has been published as well, in a book entitled, Blue Devils. She has just witnessed the success of "Defenses of Prague" her third musical stage-play at La MaMa E.T.C. She co-directed this intense mystical play about the Legend of Golem and the magic of the Gypsies.

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below is a list of Sophia Romma's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Absolute Clarity         Cabaret Emigre         Coyote, Take Me there         Defenses Of Prague         Doroga         In the Eyes Of Hope         Mire, The         Past is Still Ahead, The         Sickle         Sweet Word Of Advice         That Queer Blind Silence         With Aaron's Arms Around Me

Absolute Clarity

Synopsis:
the play is loosely based on She, in the absence of love and death by the noted Russian author Edvard Radzinsky (1977). Radzinsky's tragicomedy, originally set in a Soviet cityscape of the 1970s, has been re-imagined in the present-day Lower East Side, where its teenage heroine, a "white raven" and rebellious young artist, searches for love and absolution. the company of ten features a live onstage jazz band.
nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Players Theatre, NY    2007

Organisations:
ArtVoice and Cinema Anastasia

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Cabaret Emigre

Synopsis:
An emigrant feels like a circus man who is traveling the endless doroga (Russian for "the road.") the sins of your past are inconsequential and your future is in limbo. It's a human condition that is painted poetically in "Cabaret Emigre," a new play by Sophia Romma. the play contains ten Lewis Carroll-style testimonials that are told as cabaret acts by a collection of emigres who are primarily Russian Jews (like the author), but also include emigres from Latin America and Africa. All of them have no other motive than to entertain each other and their resulting acts are outrageous and macabre, like a journey down the rabbit hole.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Lion theatre
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036    02 Nov 2012

Organisations:
Negro Ensemble Company

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Coyote, Take Me there

Synopsis:
A young Jewish girl and a half Jewish half Hispanic girl are murdered and then brought back to life by the mysterious coyote

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1st Produced:
LaMaMa etc, New York    -

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Defenses Of Prague

Synopsis:
A Gypsy dancer hiding out in Prague on the eve of the Russian invasion of 1968. A pimp who had corrupted her mother takes up with her. In her dreams she invokes the Golem to save the people of Prague. the pimp is the descendant of the rabbi who built the original Golem. Soon the Golem is on the rampage

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LaMaMa etc, New York    -

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Doroga

Synopsis:
spills a tale of transient dislocated Meshuggah souls, shattering the prism glass of their Eastern European past and etching a deep wrinkle on America's complex, demanding turf of enticing liberty

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1st Produced:
staged reading at Dramatists Guld of AmerICA, NY    27 Apr 2012

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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In the Eyes Of Hope

Synopsis:
A poor struggling would be playwright goes to live in a Youth Hostel

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1st Produced:
Jewish Repertory theater    -

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Mire, The

Synopsis:
inspired by Anton Chekhov's 19th century short story of the same name. It spins a stark tale of a vixenish young Russian Jewish emigre, Svetlana Moiseyevna, who captures the heart of a 28-year-old renegade Lieutenant, James Perso Arrivederci.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Cherry Lane Theatre - Studio
38 Commerce Street, New York, NY 10014    03 Dec 2010

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Past is Still Ahead, The

Synopsis:
the Past is Still Ahead, is about the life and poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva, one of Russia's most profound poets
- nytheatre.com

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Organisations:
Mayakovsky Academic Art Theatre

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Sickle

Synopsis:
Spanning the time from Khrushchev to Yeltsin, it tells the tale of Donya, a young Russian American writer, caught in the web of family, history, and compelling new love. Sickle is inspired by the true life story of Romma's grandparents who spent 10 years in Butirka, one of Russia's most infamous prison camps, for being wealthy Jewish intellectuals and for hiring retarded Jews in the factory they once owned.
nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Sargent - American Theater of Actors, NY    2006

Organisations:
First Breeze Productions

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Sweet Word Of Advice

Synopsis:
An eccentric Jewish Russian emigre captures the heart of a young soldier

Notes:
Inspired by A short story by Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
JCC Theatre, New York    2008

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Genre:
One act

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That Queer Blind Silence

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
[reading] Frederick Loewe Room, Suite 710, the Dramatists Guild, 1501 Broadway, NY, NY 10036    03 Oct 2013

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With Aaron's Arms Around Me

Synopsis:
in which two emigre women, one from Jamaica and one from Russia, are thrown together for an interview through a creative writing class at NYU. they tease out the secrets of each others' love affairs, both of which are tests of tolerance to their families, sharing the hardships of love and being young and very much alive.

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1st Produced:
Cherry Lane Theatre - Studio
38 Commerce Street, New York, NY 10014    03 Dec 2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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