Sophie Dushko

Sophie Dushko is a playwright, actor, deviser, and director with an affinity for heightened text, ritual, eroticism, physical story telling, and brazen theatricality. Her debut production, "galatea 2.0", was presented by Invulnerable Nothings and Brooklyn Art Haus in July 2023 and her play "the dance" was a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award and the National Playwright's Conference in 2021. Her plays have been developed with Invulnerable Nothings, Nervous Theatre, Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research, Definition Theater, and the National Theatre School of Canada. She holds a degree in musical theatre from The Boston Conservatory and is a proud National Theatre School of Canada dropout.

Sophie Dushko is a playwright, actor, deviser, and director with an affinity for heightened text, ritual, eroticism, physical story telling, and brazen theatricality. Her debut production, "galatea 2.0", was presented by Invulnerable Nothings and Brooklyn Art Haus in July 2023 and her play "the dance" was a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award and the National Playwright's Conference in 2021. Her plays have been developed with Invulnerable Nothings, Nervous Theatre, Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research, Definition Theater, and the National Theatre School of Canada. She holds a degree in musical theatre from The Boston Conservatory and is a proud National Theatre School of Canada dropout.

Scripts

untitled 3 sisters adaptation

by Sophie Dushko

1
Cast Size
11
Genre
adaptation,
translation

it's Chekhov's Three Sisters... but like, new...

it's Chekhov's Three Sisters... but like, new...

galatea 2.0

by Sophie Dushko

5
Cast Size
4
Genre
adaptation,
dark comedy,
experimental

GALATEA 2.0 is a modern speculation on the Pygmalion myth and a deconstruction of objectification and the muse/artist relationship that merges incel culture, lMrs. Patrick Campbell and George Bernard Shaw, found text, lots of blue Gatorade, puppetry, plinths, and a very old Pekinese. The play chronicles Eliza, a sex worker hired by a disaffected young man to role play as a top of the line "love doll" when his...

GALATEA 2.0 is a modern speculation on the Pygmalion myth and a deconstruction of objectification and the muse/artist relationship that merges incel culture, lMrs. Patrick Campbell and George Bernard Shaw, found text, lots of blue Gatorade, puppetry, plinths, and a very old Pekinese. The play chronicles Eliza, a sex worker hired by a disaffected young man to role play as a top of the line "love doll" when his own doll mysteriously breaks.

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how would you like me to atone?

by Sophie Dushko

2
Cast Size
3—5
Genre
drama

a woman meets a man in a motel room. power shifts and boundaries are pushed as the play asks: can we ever be released from the prisons of our shame?

a woman meets a man in a motel room. power shifts and boundaries are pushed as the play asks: can we ever be released from the prisons of our shame?

vérité

by Sophie Dushko

3
Cast Size
1
Genre
experimental,
immersive

a filmmaker examines her highly personal process. an experimentation in performance. an exploration of intimacy. a solo play performed by the playwright.

a filmmaker examines her highly personal process. an experimentation in performance. an exploration of intimacy. a solo play performed by the playwright.

the dance

by Sophie Dushko

2
Cast Size
4
Genre
drama,
movement/physical

A dance studio becomes a memory palace as a woman recalls a relationship she had at 17 with her 36 year-old dance teacher. She is joined by her former teacher and her 17 and 8-year-old selves in a kaleidoscopic and deeply intimate exploration of her trauma that is part memory play, part investigation, and part dance concert. "the dance" asks how we move forward from events that have scarred us in order to make...

A dance studio becomes a memory palace as a woman recalls a relationship she had at 17 with her 36 year-old dance teacher. She is joined by her former teacher and her 17 and 8-year-old selves in a kaleidoscopic and deeply intimate exploration of her trauma that is part memory play, part investigation, and part dance concert. "the dance" asks how we move forward from events that have scarred us in order to make ourselves whole again.

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a union of synchronized swimmers

by Sophie Dushko

1
Cast Size
26—50
Genre
adaptation,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
movement/physical

a woman returns to the river of her youth after a long situation and conjures a chorus to tell the village's greatest legend. a group of 6 teenaged girls, fed up with the drudgery of the cigarette factory and the violence of their homes, teach themselves to swim. a fairytale. a hero's journey. an exploration of the selves we become to survives -- and what we sacrifice in doing so. an adaptation of the novella by...

a woman returns to the river of her youth after a long situation and conjures a chorus to tell the village's greatest legend. a group of 6 teenaged girls, fed up with the drudgery of the cigarette factory and the violence of their homes, teach themselves to swim. a fairytale. a hero's journey. an exploration of the selves we become to survives -- and what we sacrifice in doing so. an adaptation of the novella by Cristina Sandu.

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white / red

by Sophie Dushko

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
fable/folktale,
period,
romantic comedy

a warm, red room. snow. some years ago. a man and a woman play a game.

a warm, red room. snow. some years ago. a man and a woman play a game.

daddy's girl

by Sophie Dushko

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
adaptation,
drama

Agamemnon arrives in the underworld and greeted by his long lost daughter — but something is different about her. A play about girlhood and sacrifices.

Agamemnon arrives in the underworld and greeted by his long lost daughter — but something is different about her. A play about girlhood and sacrifices.