Sofia Alvarez

Teaches at Primary Stages ESPA

Sofia’s play Friend Art premiered at Second Stage Uptown in May of 2016. Other plays include Between Us Chickens (SCR, EST LA), Life Drawing, The Fish Bowl, NYLON, The Orphan’s Club, and Corpse Pose. Work in television includes the first two seasons of “Man Seeking Woman” (FXX) and the first season of “Sirens” (USA). In addition to projects in film and television, she is currently working with composer Daniel Roland Tierney on a musical adaptation of William Steig’s classic children’s book “Amos & Boris” for South Coast Rep. “Amos & Boris” was developed as part of the 25th anniversary season of the Kennedy Center’s New Visions New Voices festival. Sofia is an alumna of the Primary Stages Dorothy Streslin New American Writer’s Group, Ars Nova Playgroup, New Georges’ Jam, and the Royal Court Young Writer’s Program in London. She is a graduate of Bennington College and The Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. She teaches in the Tisch department of dramatic writing at NYU and has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.