Soph Marsh is a theatre maker currently based in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. They are passionate about new plays that push the limits of theatricality and inspire radical empathy. As a dramaturg, Soph has a particular eye for play structure and subtext. The goal of Soph's dramaturgy is to help playwrights and theatre makers understand the strength and value of their voices so that they can hone their craft to suit the needs of the play at hand. Soph is also passionate about getting new plays in front of audiences. Therefore, their role as a dramaturg takes many forms: advocating, playwrighting, directing, producing, designing, and devising. Soph has worked as a dramaturgical fellow at the Kennedy Center's 2019 MFA Playwrighting Festival, the resident New Works Dramaturg at Kansas City...
Soph Marsh is a theatre maker currently based in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. They are passionate about new plays that push the limits of theatricality and inspire radical empathy. As a dramaturg, Soph has a particular eye for play structure and subtext. The goal of Soph's dramaturgy is to help playwrights and theatre makers understand the strength and value of their voices so that they can hone their craft to suit the needs of the play at hand. Soph is also passionate about getting new plays in front of audiences. Therefore, their role as a dramaturg takes many forms: advocating, playwrighting, directing, producing, designing, and devising. Soph has worked as a dramaturgical fellow at the Kennedy Center's 2019 MFA Playwrighting Festival, the resident New Works Dramaturg at Kansas City Public Theatre, and as a produced playwright at Shawnee Mission Theatre in the Park and KC Fringe Festival. Their most recent project was dramaturgically developing and directing the new musical When the Daffodil Blooms, a modern retelling of the myth of Narcissus and Echo, created in collaboration with Joel Walley.