Sofia Alvarez

Sofia Alvarez is a playwright, screenwriter and director. Her plays include KILL CORP (The Warehouse Theater, 2022; Williamstown Theater Festival Fridays at 3, 2024), NYLON (BTP / Theaterlab, 2019), Panelists (Dorset Theater Festival Pipeline Series, 2019), Friend Art (Second Stage Uptown, 2016), Between Us Chickens (SCR / EST LA, 2011) and The Fish Bowl (Juilliard, 2010) among others. With composer Daniel Roland Tierney, she wrote a musical adaptation of William Steig’s classic children’s book, Amos & Boris which premiered at South Coast Rep in 2018. Her directorial debut film, Along for the Ride, an adaptation of Sarah Dessen’s bestselling novel, for which she also wrote the screenplay, was released on Netflix in May 2022. She is perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for To...

Sofia Alvarez is a playwright, screenwriter and director. Her plays include KILL CORP (The Warehouse Theater, 2022; Williamstown Theater Festival Fridays at 3, 2024), NYLON (BTP / Theaterlab, 2019), Panelists (Dorset Theater Festival Pipeline Series, 2019), Friend Art (Second Stage Uptown, 2016), Between Us Chickens (SCR / EST LA, 2011) and The Fish Bowl (Juilliard, 2010) among others. With composer Daniel Roland Tierney, she wrote a musical adaptation of William Steig’s classic children’s book, Amos & Boris which premiered at South Coast Rep in 2018. Her directorial debut film, Along for the Ride, an adaptation of Sarah Dessen’s bestselling novel, for which she also wrote the screenplay, was released on Netflix in May 2022. She is perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and To All the Boys 2: P.S. I Still Love You based on Jenny Han’s novels of the same name. In 2018 she was named one of Variety Magazine’s ten screenwriters to watch. Work in television includes the first two seasons of Man Seeking Woman (FXX), she is particularly proud of the episodes, "Teacup" (S1) and "Tinsel" (S2). She is an alumna of the Ars Nova Playgroup, Primary Stages' Dorothy Streslin New American Writer's Group, and the New Georges' Jam. She is a graduate of Bennington College and The Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. She has taught in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch and served as a panelist for the Austin Film Festival and the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently serves as an elected council member for the Writers Guild of America, East.

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Scripts

Panelists

by Sofia Alvarez

1
Cast Size
5—6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
satire

"Success never feels like success when it's yours" is a quotation that accurately describes Jillian, Alex, Howard, Mandy, and Susannah who all got their MFAs in playwriting from the same prestigious university. Now, each bearing a cross as varied as their writing careers, they reunite in the same Hallowed Halls for an Alumni panel discussion. After the pleasantries are gone, nothing is left unsaid in this comedy...

"Success never feels like success when it's yours" is a quotation that accurately describes Jillian, Alex, Howard, Mandy, and Susannah who all got their MFAs in playwriting from the same prestigious university. Now, each bearing a cross as varied as their writing careers, they reunite in the same Hallowed Halls for an Alumni panel discussion. After the pleasantries are gone, nothing is left unsaid in this comedy about how what we write shapes who we are and vice versa.

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NYLON

by Sofia Alvarez

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

In NYLON, an estranged couple, Anna and Matthew, meet for the first time in four years. Over the course of the encounter their past is dredged to the surface in a way that ruptures Anna’s carefully constructed persona and sets in motion a psychological tennis match that threatens both of their individual futures as well of those of everyone around them. A modern day A Doll’s House, NYLON explores the options...

In NYLON, an estranged couple, Anna and Matthew, meet for the first time in four years. Over the course of the encounter their past is dredged to the surface in a way that ruptures Anna’s carefully constructed persona and sets in motion a psychological tennis match that threatens both of their individual futures as well of those of everyone around them. A modern day A Doll’s House, NYLON explores the options available to women and the ways in which we become our own worst enemies when we stray from the acceptable paths available to us.

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Friend Art

by Sofia Alvarez

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
romantic comedy,
satire

Molly and Kevin are engaged, they have ‘normal’ jobs. Kevin and Nate have known each other since they were kids. Nate used to be famous once. He just broke up with Lil, who does performance art, and she used to work with Molly, who wanted to be an actress a long time ago. These relationships come to a head when Kevin decides he no longer wants the regular life he convinced Molly to live with him. Friend Art asks...

Molly and Kevin are engaged, they have ‘normal’ jobs. Kevin and Nate have known each other since they were kids. Nate used to be famous once. He just broke up with Lil, who does performance art, and she used to work with Molly, who wanted to be an actress a long time ago. These relationships come to a head when Kevin decides he no longer wants the regular life he convinced Molly to live with him. Friend Art asks how late is too late to give up on your dreams, when are you really a grown-up, and what the hell are you supposed to say when walking out of friend's truly terrible performance?

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Between Us Chickens

by Sofia Alvarez

3
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
satire

Small town friends Meagan and Sarah move to LA after college. Meagan parties every night while Sarah spends all day playing internet poker in their living room. When Meagan brings home Charles, an intriguing LA native, he offers Sarah the life she’s been missing in exchange for a place to live. With Charles planted on Sarah and Meaghan's couch, he threatens to upset the balance of a lifelong friendship...

Small town friends Meagan and Sarah move to LA after college. Meagan parties every night while Sarah spends all day playing internet poker in their living room. When Meagan brings home Charles, an intriguing LA native, he offers Sarah the life she’s been missing in exchange for a place to live. With Charles planted on Sarah and Meaghan's couch, he threatens to upset the balance of a lifelong friendship—especially when what Sarah has actually be doing on the computer is revealed.

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Corpse Pose

by Sofia Alvarez

1
Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

Amy returns home under the pretense of caring for her ailing Nana but actually to run away from the sadness of her current life. Back in her hometown of Baltimore she connects with the son of a man with whom she has a complicated history and learns that playing in the past is not always the solution to healing in the present.

Amy returns home under the pretense of caring for her ailing Nana but actually to run away from the sadness of her current life. Back in her hometown of Baltimore she connects with the son of a man with whom she has a complicated history and learns that playing in the past is not always the solution to healing in the present.