Works by Sophie Weisskoff:
BRAINSMASH
ENDA AND OONA
RESOURCE ROOM
QUEEN OF SOCK PAIRING
MILLENNIAL TRASH
Synopses:
brainsmash – When Maisie, a young writer, gets a traumatic brain injury, her relationships and professional life suddenly come under threat. She rehabilitates her vision and tries to write using accommodative technologies, but in an ableist world, will any of it be enough? A sensory-friendly exploration of prolonged concussion.
Enda and Oona – Cherry is thrilled to be apprenticing under a cutthroat cupcake-baking duo, but, as tensions build between the couple, she finds herself caught in the middle. A language-y romp about exploitation, the myth of closure, and the simultaneous seriousness and frivolity of making things.
Resource Room – Teachers at a middle school in Manhattan weave through the resource room, moving through micro-dramas. A sad-funny play about learning.
Queen of Sock Pairing – Feeling unheard both at her babysitting job and in her relationship, Celia initiates a new game with her much older boyfriend. A playabout learning through imitation, and speaking the truth while playing pretend
millennial trash – Simon is building a map app, Riley is scared of throwing up, and May is obsessed with her pet. A short play about adjusting badly to life after college.
Bio:
Sophie Weisskoff is a disabled playwright based in Brooklyn. Her work sources from autobiography and aims to prompt nuanced self-reflection and uncomfortable-yet-connective conversations. She returns to themes of kink, shame, access, and bad behavior.
Her plays include brainsmash (commissioned, developed and produced by The Hearth); Enda and Oona (Great Plains Theater Conference Selection, Leah Ryan’s FEWW Prize Honorable Mention; O’Neill Semi-Finalist); and Queen of Sock Pairing (produced by Red Tape Theatre). She was a dramaturg and contributing writer on Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey’s piece [50/50] old school animation (Under The Radar, INCOMING! JACK). She also writes fiction and essays, which have been published in New York Magazine and The Virginia Quarterly Review. MFA: Brooklyn College.