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Sofia is a latinx artist - actor, singer and composer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Born and raised in Guatemala and professionally trained in NYC at the acting conservatory The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan. Her work's focus is on physical and sonic ways of expression, building emotional connections to hybrid / digital spaces.
>> A Sonic Adaptation 2023
Take Heart research program
>> I FEEL U 2023
Take Heart residency program
>> Embrace 2021
Take Care residency program
>> The Feeling is Mutual 2020
HAU Hebbel am Ufer residency
** all of the above Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR
tv + film
✧ With experience both on stage and in front of the camera, her most recent credits include a co-starring role in the latest season of Netflix's Orange is the New Black, the lead role in Fashion Film Genius Loci - official selection of FFFMilano, a role in Comedy Central's sketch show Alternatino, commercial work for McDonald's USA and regular voiceover work for the United Nations (UN) and UNICEF.
(Download Resume for more)
theater / performance
Rechenzentrum, Potsdam, DE
HAU Hebbel am Ufer, BERLIN
Around the Globe in Eighty Plays, UK
WIT Festival - Gural Theatre, NYC
Columbia University, NYC
Columbia University, NYC
✧ Anatomalia
✧ The Feeling is Mutual
✧ Gone Viral ✧ Rise / Fall
✧ Bacchae
✧ Black Forests (Bertolt Brecht)
conservatory theater
✧ The Winter's Tale
✧ Anon(yomous)
Barbara Rubin / AADA NYC
Sheila Bandyopadhyay / AADA NYC
voice-over
✧ United Nations’ UNFPA
✧ UNICEF Alternative Care
✧ UNICEF Disability Peru
music
✧ As a recording artist and singer of two bands – Easy Easy and ERA C – she has toured extensively throughout North and Latin America, playing established stages and festivals around the world, such as Union Pool in NYC, El Lunario del Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, Caradura, Vive Latino, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Costa Rica, and Hermoso Ruido in Colombia.
She co-wrote the album, Lo Veo Todo (Lo Siento), which was selected as one of the best albums of 2018 in Ibero and Latin America by Noisey x Vice and Shock, and featured in MTV LATAM; as well as the EP 5 (2020), from which the song “Katana” is featured in Netflix’s Gentefied; and the album DELIRIA (2021), from which the track "beautiful" is featured in Warren Miller's film Daymaker.
t r a i n i n g
- American Academy of Dramatic Arts | Manhattan Conservatory Degree in acting (NYC)
- Actores Madrid | Juanma López
Acting for the Camera (MADRID, SPAIN)
- Producciones Angélica Rosa
Associate Degree in Performing Arts (GT)
c o n t a c t
NYC rep - Jaime Baker
email: filmbaker1@gmail.com
Berlin rep - More Human
email: human@morehumanagency.com
email: ficcion@agenciariver.com
