Sofia Molimbi

Sofia Molimbi

Sofia Molimbi (Dubrawsky) is a playwright, actor, and theater teacher. She is the recipient of the 2023 Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship for Drama. She has been published by Smith & Kraus, Applause Acting Series, Meriwether Publishing, Pioneer Drama Service, and The Pitkin Review. Plays include: Group; or Marlene is Dead, Remote, The Eclipse, The Heart of Gravesend, Bugs, Tiny Home, Mary Quirke, and The...
Sofia Molimbi (Dubrawsky) is a playwright, actor, and theater teacher. She is the recipient of the 2023 Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship for Drama. She has been published by Smith & Kraus, Applause Acting Series, Meriwether Publishing, Pioneer Drama Service, and The Pitkin Review. Plays include: Group; or Marlene is Dead, Remote, The Eclipse, The Heart of Gravesend, Bugs, Tiny Home, Mary Quirke, and The Purse. She has worked as a theatre artist in NYC, Dublin, Helsinki, and Portland, OR. Awards: The Finlandia Foundation, The Spirit of Goddard, and The Pearl Foundation. She holds an MFA in Playwriting/ Creative Writing from Goddard College. Memberships: The Dramatist Guild, SAG-AFTRA, AEA, and she is a proud member of LineStorm Playwrights in Portland, OR. When not writing, she can be found chasing after her three young children. Read her work on the New Play Exchange or at www.sofiamolimbi.com

Plays

  • Remote by Sofia Molimbi
    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: estrangement, family + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, melodrama
    Keyword: estrangement, family, Sisters
    Working remote and living remote… is it a life of lonely isolation or the ultimate freedom? A woman moves to the backwoods of rural Oregon to re-frame her future, only to find her past comes knocking on her door. Mother nature has met her match! Remote, by Sofia Molimbi, is a modern-day comedy about human connection, sisterhood, and clearing out the dark corners of our minds. What’s easier to escape, your...
    Working remote and living remote… is it a life of lonely isolation or the ultimate freedom? A woman moves to the backwoods of rural Oregon to re-frame her future, only to find her past comes knocking on her door. Mother nature has met her match! Remote, by Sofia Molimbi, is a modern-day comedy about human connection, sisterhood, and clearing out the dark corners of our minds. What’s easier to escape, your family or climate change?
  • Group; or Marlene is Dead by Sofia Molimbi
    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: parenthood, motherhood + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, melodrama
    Keyword: parenthood, motherhood, fertility, divorce, friendship, psychology, marriage
    Group; or Marlene is Dead, by Sofia Molimbi, is not your typical parenthood comedy. Set in modern day, Portland, Oregon, “Group” follows the lives of five parents and two professors, who are all desperate to salvage their rocky home lives. Professor Marlene’s parenting class becomes an incubator that either kills you or saves you. Structurally, the play moves swiftly from past to present, and back again,...
    Group; or Marlene is Dead, by Sofia Molimbi, is not your typical parenthood comedy. Set in modern day, Portland, Oregon, “Group” follows the lives of five parents and two professors, who are all desperate to salvage their rocky home lives. Professor Marlene’s parenting class becomes an incubator that either kills you or saves you. Structurally, the play moves swiftly from past to present, and back again, creating bitter sweet moments and a deeper level of understanding how we got "here.” This fast-paced tragicomedy is an honest portrayal of the struggles of relationships, divorce, fertility, and motherhood.
  • The Eclipse by Sofia Molimbi
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic + 5 more
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    Keyword: family, immigration + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, melodrama, political, romantic comedy, tragedy
    Keyword: family, immigration, homelessness, gentrification, dementia, feminism, World War II, American Dream, suicide, magical realism
    In a gentrifying American city, an elderly immigrant woman mistakenly invites a mysterious stranger and her young son, to live in her guest house. Meanwhile, an impending total solar eclipse sets into motion an upheaval of family trauma which must be confronted. Everyone is left searching for their place in the world. Where do you belong? The Eclipse is an amusing dramatic play exploring themes of love,...
    In a gentrifying American city, an elderly immigrant woman mistakenly invites a mysterious stranger and her young son, to live in her guest house. Meanwhile, an impending total solar eclipse sets into motion an upheaval of family trauma which must be confronted. Everyone is left searching for their place in the world. Where do you belong? The Eclipse is an amusing dramatic play exploring themes of love, immigration, loss, homelessness, and our magical connection to the natural world. The story reaches across generations and cultures who are desperate to find common ground.
  • Bugs by Sofia Molimbi
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: Kafka metamorphosis, love + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, horror, romantic comedy, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: Kafka metamorphosis, love, identity, meet cute
    One day Greg wakes up to an insessent knock at the door, but not all is as it seems... what has he become? Can he ever be himself again? Can the person behind the door help him in this critical moment of metamorphosis?
  • Tiny Home by Sofia Molimbi
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: homelessness, feminism + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, melodrama
    Keyword: homelessness, feminism, motherhood, gentrification, magical realism
    A mother and daughter are at a crossroads. What do we owe to the people raise us? What does it mean to be a feminist? In this modern tiny home, two modern women hash it out.
  • The Purse by Sofia Molimbi
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: female friendship, aging + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: female friendship, aging, feminism, American South, marriage, love
    In a small Mississippi town, a flamboyant, world-renowned actress enjoys a life of quiet retirement as an eccentric recluse until a deceptive charity volunteer uncovers her darkest secret and forces her to suddenly come to grips with her past.