About

Sophie designs for theatre and performance and won the overall Gold Medal at World Stage Design 2013. She is Co-Artistic Director, co-director and designer for performance company Seven Sisters Group, who are well known nationally and internationally for their site-specific work. She completed a PhD on theatre designers Jocelyn Herbert and Motley. Her designs were selected to represent Britain at every Prague Quadrennial exhibition of world theatre design between 1999 and 2011 and have been exhibited at the V&A museum several times.

Theatre work includes: Gauhar Jaan (directed by Mukul Ahmed, Omnibus Theatre), Tell Them That I Am Young and Beautiful (Marcello Magni, Arcola Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Helena Kaut Howson, Belgrade Studio and Arcola Theatre), Led Easy (Emma Bernard, Cardboard Citizens tour), Mobilis In Mobili (Bruno Roubicek, Shunt Lounge), The Winter’s Tale (Neil Caple, Birkenhead Park), The Bald Prima Donna (Hanna Berrigan, Etcetera Theatre), Blackbird and The Difficult Unicorn (Jane Howell, Southwark Playhouse), The Tempest (Nancy Meckler, Shared Experience tour) and Full Moon, (Helena Kaut-Howson, Theatr Clwyd, Welsh tour and Young Vic Theatre).

Sophie’s co-direction and design for Seven Sisters Group includes: Twelfth Player (Sixfields Stadium, Northampton) Like a Fish Out of Water (Seven Sisters Group with English National Ballet at Uxbridge and Hampton Lidos), Atalanta (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford),

Designs for Seven Sisters Group include: Asterion (V&A Museum), Salome (St Pancras Chambers), Trainstation (Kings Cross, Waterloo, Internationally), Concrete (Royal National Theatre), Ballroom (Royal Festival Hall), The Forest (Newlands Corner) and The Forbidden (Royal Opera House).

Sophie has lectured at most theatre design courses in the UK. She has run workshops for children, families, professional artists from a variety of artistic disciplines and community groups, both nationally and internationally.

Sophie curated an exhibition at the V&A Museum and Chelsea Space called When Marcel Met Motley, about the collaboration between Motley and the architect Marcel Breuer.

Former Joint Honorary Secretary of the Society of British Theatre Designers, Sophie is a Linbury Prize committee member and was a judge for the 2015 Linbury Prize. She was curator for the Site Specific Performance Festival at Prague Quadrennial 2019, and judge for World Stage Design 2017 and Prague Quadrennial 2023.