Sophie Sagan-Gutherz

Sophie Sagan-Gutherz

Sophie Sagan-Gutherz (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist who schleps around NYC, sometimes with a butterfly-covered cane.

They’re often thinking about the body’s relationship to being physically disabled and trans, the five boyfriends they had in seventh grade, and the magical woods of Massachusetts.

Recent: POSSUM (writer/actor/producer) Final Girls Berlin (audience award...
Sophie Sagan-Gutherz (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist who schleps around NYC, sometimes with a butterfly-covered cane.

They’re often thinking about the body’s relationship to being physically disabled and trans, the five boyfriends they had in seventh grade, and the magical woods of Massachusetts.

Recent: POSSUM (writer/actor/producer) Final Girls Berlin (audience award); U.S. premiere (Salem Horror Fest). Playwriting: Irons in the Fire (Faultline Theatre), Greenhouse Lab (Orchard Project), Resident (Fresh Ground Pepper), Resident (The Barn at Lee). Finalist placements: Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Williamstown Friedman Fellowship, The Civilians R&D Group, New Georges The Jam, The Public Emerging Writers Group, and EST Youngblood. Two-time semi-finalist for NPC/The O'Neill. Select acting collaborations: Lincoln Center, Ars Nova, TFANA, The Public, and Williamstown. TV/Film: Cats and Walls (opposite Dylan Baker), SNL ("Pride Month Song''), Idol Chaser (VLVMedia). Screenwriting: RespectAbility Entertainment Lab; HollyShorts Quarterfinalist. sophiesagangutherz.com @sophiesagangutherz

Plays

  • they want me dead so i choose breath by Sophie Sagan-Gutherz
    Recommendations: 1
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 3 more
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    Keyword: physical disability, suicide-attempt + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, fantasy, horror, movement/physical
    Keyword: physical disability, suicide-attempt, trans, queer, gay, LGBTQ, Non-Binary
    Centered around eight TGNC humans in a secret communal living escape in the woods, new kid STEVIE’s arrival simultaneously disrupts the current hierarchy and saves LIL’s life from a suicide attempt. Set in a magical-realist world in which it is illegal to be TGNC, the characters have to look to each other for guidance and community, where the intersection of transness and disability is at the forefront, and...
    Centered around eight TGNC humans in a secret communal living escape in the woods, new kid STEVIE’s arrival simultaneously disrupts the current hierarchy and saves LIL’s life from a suicide attempt. Set in a magical-realist world in which it is illegal to be TGNC, the characters have to look to each other for guidance and community, where the intersection of transness and disability is at the forefront, and death and loneliness become the great equalizer amongst seeming misfits
  • the zoo by Sophie Sagan-Gutherz
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: college assault, revenge + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, experimental, farce, horror, political, satire
    Keyword: college assault, revenge, feminism, sexual assault, trans, gay, witches, trans witches
    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
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: queer, gay + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental
    Keyword: queer, gay, LGBTQ, Non-Binary, puberty, sexuality, Adolescence, middle-school, disability, eating disorders
    It is 2008 and six tweens navigate the simultaneous horrors and bliss of middle school. Internet obsessions are rampant and the characters intermittently exist in the cyber world where they interact with frighteningly honest male voices over AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). 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...
    It is 2008 and six tweens navigate the simultaneous horrors and bliss of middle school. Internet obsessions are rampant and the characters intermittently exist in the cyber world where they interact with frighteningly honest male voices over AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). 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 find community in each other, unlocking new friendships, gender euphoria, and queer desires, and ultimately survival in a world where “females” are expected to “SHHHHHhhhhhHHHHHHhhhh!!!!!!”