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SOPHIA ROMMA |
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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.
Plays by Sophia Romma
Absolute Clarity | ||
| 1st Produced: | Players Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | ArtVoice and Cinema Anastasia | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62122 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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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. | |||||
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Coyote, Take Me There | ||
| 1st Produced: | LaMaMa etc, New York | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130820 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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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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Defenses Of Prague | ||
| 1st Produced: | LaMaMa etc, New York | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130821 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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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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Doroga | ||
| 1st Produced: | staged reading at Dramatists Guld of America, NY | 27 Apr 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139268 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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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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In the Eyes Of Hope | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jewish Repertory Theater | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45548 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A poor struggling would be playwright goes to live in a Youth Hostel | |||||
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Mire, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cherry Lane Theatre - Studio | 03 Dec 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122283 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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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. | |||||
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Past is Still Ahead, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Mayakovsky Academic Art Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #77107 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Past is Still Ahead, is about the life and poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva, one of Russia's most profound poets | |||||
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Sickle | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sargent - American Theater of Actors, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | First Breeze Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50164 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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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. | |||||
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Sweet Word Of Advice | ||
| 1st Produced: | JCC Theatre, New York | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130822 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
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Notes: | Inspired by a short story by Anton Chekhov | |||||
Synopsis: | An eccentric Jewish Russian emigre captures the heart of a young soldier | |||||
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With Aaron's Arms Around Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cherry Lane Theatre - Studio | 03 Dec 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122284 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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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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