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Sophia Howes has been a reviewer for DCTA since 2013 and a columnist since 2015. She has an extensive background in theater. Her play
Southern Girl was performed at the Public Theater-NY, and two of her plays,
Rosetta’s Eyes and
Solace in Gondal, were produced at the Playwrights’ Horizons Studio Theatre. She studied with Curt Dempster at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, where her play
Madonna was given a staged reading at the Octoberfest. Her
one-acts Better Dresses and
The Endless Sky, among others, were produced as part of Director Robert Moss’s Workshop-NY. She has directed
The Tempest, at the Hazel Ruby McQuain Amphitheatre, and
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Monongalia Arts Center, both in Morgantown, WV. She studied Classics and English at Barnard and received her BFA with honors in Drama from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, where she received the Seidman Award for playwriting. Her play
Adamov was produced at the Harold Clurman Theater on Theater Row-NY. She holds an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, where she received the Lucille Lortel Award for playwriting. She studied with, among others, Michael Feingold, Len Jenkin, Lynne Alvarez, and Tina Howe.