Sophie Sagan-Gutherz

my name is Sophie [they/them]. My practice involves writing, producing, acting and singing across stage and screen. I revere the overlap of clown and drag and seek out the fine line between laughter and devastation. I was recently commissioned to write for Breaking the Binary (Playwrights Horizons) in partnership with Broadway Play Licensing. My first screenplay POSSUM (actor/writer/producer) has been described as “excellent”, “imaginative” and in the "deadpan comedic style of Jim Jarmusch or Yorgos Lanthimos". POSSUM is also a Hollyshorts Screenplay Quarterfinalist, a Final Girls Berlin Audience Award Winner and is finishing out its festival circuit having played at 10+ festivals. I'm a Production Accessibility Trainee with the “queercrip” production company indieVISIBLE, a current NYU...

my name is Sophie [they/them]. My practice involves writing, producing, acting and singing across stage and screen. I revere the overlap of clown and drag and seek out the fine line between laughter and devastation. I was recently commissioned to write for Breaking the Binary (Playwrights Horizons) in partnership with Broadway Play Licensing. My first screenplay POSSUM (actor/writer/producer) has been described as “excellent”, “imaginative” and in the "deadpan comedic style of Jim Jarmusch or Yorgos Lanthimos". POSSUM is also a Hollyshorts Screenplay Quarterfinalist, a Final Girls Berlin Audience Award Winner and is finishing out its festival circuit having played at 10+ festivals. I'm a Production Accessibility Trainee with the “queercrip” production company indieVISIBLE, a current NYU Tisch Drama Gender Expansive Mentor and the Secretary of my Block Association. Put disabled people in leadership positions! sophiesagangutherz.com

Scripts

eels

by Sophie Sagan-Gutherz

Synopsis

Meadow and Dash are sitting by an infinity pool. They're not supposed to be there.

Broadway Licensing, 2025

Meadow and Dash are sitting by an infinity pool. They're not supposed to be there.

Broadway Licensing, 2025

don't break my f*cking glass unicorn

by Sophie Sagan-Gutherz

Synopsis

Laura is a horny "cripple".

Laura is a horny "cripple".

teach me how to swim

by Sophie Sagan-Gutherz

Synopsis

VAL is probably dead. STEVIE is new. ZIG is in charge and HEART knows something very bad is coming. This play is about chosen family and survival. 

VAL is probably dead. STEVIE is new. ZIG is in charge and HEART knows something very bad is coming. This play is about chosen family and survival. 

the zoo

by Sophie Sagan-Gutherz

Synopsis

in response to the #metoo movement dubbed “witch-hunt” and their campus' gross neglect, a group of college kids seek revenge for their own experiences with sexual assault

in response to the #metoo movement dubbed “witch-hunt” and their campus' gross neglect, a group of college kids seek revenge for their own experiences with sexual assault

marked green at birth, marked female at birth

by Sophie Sagan-Gutherz

Synopsis

six tweens navigate the simultaneous horrors and bliss of middle school in 2006. From forced 5 Mile Runs in P.E. in order to “fight the obesity epidemic” to the life and death question “Who are you going to The Dance with?”, the characters try to unlock who they are in a world where “females” are expected to “shhhhhhh!!!!!!”

six tweens navigate the simultaneous horrors and bliss of middle school in 2006. From forced 5 Mile Runs in P.E. in order to “fight the obesity epidemic” to the life and death question “Who are you going to The Dance with?”, the characters try to unlock who they are in a world where “females” are expected to “shhhhhhh!!!!!!”