Sophia Snyder

Sophia Snyder is a writer and dramaturg preoccupied with the visceral and the speculative. She never lets her characters forget that they have bodies, in all their gruesome, gratifying, gooey glory. Through it all, she is trying to reach out and grab you by the hand, to ask, “Have you felt this too? Have you been this person?”

Sophia Snyder is a writer and dramaturg preoccupied with the visceral and the speculative. She never lets her characters forget that they have bodies, in all their gruesome, gratifying, gooey glory. Through it all, she is trying to reach out and grab you by the hand, to ask, “Have you felt this too? Have you been this person?”

Scripts

There is an Island...

by Sophia Snyder

Cast Size
11—17
Genre
adaptation,
adventure,
young audiences

(full-length) When a treasure map ends up in the hands of young Jim Hawkins, he is determined to follow it to the X-marks-the-spot, despite dishonest adults, a tragic past he has barely begun to understand, and pirates closer to home than he could have imagined.

(full-length) When a treasure map ends up in the hands of young Jim Hawkins, he is determined to follow it to the X-marks-the-spot, despite dishonest adults, a tragic past he has barely begun to understand, and pirates closer to home than he could have imagined.

Veronica

by Sophia Snyder

1
Cast Size
2—4
Genre
dark comedy,
horror,
romantic comedy,
science fiction

(one-act) A young mad scientist enlists her friend as an assistant, but as they grow closer and closer, Veronica also grows less scrupulous about moral boundaries.

(one-act) A young mad scientist enlists her friend as an assistant, but as they grow closer and closer, Veronica also grows less scrupulous about moral boundaries.

Princess of the Labyrinth

by Sophia Snyder

Cast Size
8—18
Genre
adaptation,
melodrama,
movement/physical

(full-length) As Ariadne reckons with her father’s legacy of cruelty and murder (including the imprisonment of her half-brother, the Minotaur), she grows increasingly close to a wine peddler, aware that there is more to him than most people see.

(full-length) As Ariadne reckons with her father’s legacy of cruelty and murder (including the imprisonment of her half-brother, the Minotaur), she grows increasingly close to a wine peddler, aware that there is more to him than most people see.