Sophia Romma

Playwright/Poet/Screenwriter/Director, Ms. Romma is the author of three plays, "Love, In The Eyes Of Hope, Dies Last", "Coyote, Take Me There!" and "Defenses Of Prague", directed by Leslie Lee and produced at La MaMa E.T.C.

She is the author of "Sickle" also directed by Leslie Lee and produced at the American Theater for Actors, and "Absolute Clarity", an Off-Broadway production at the Players Theater, directed by Yuri Joffe of the celebrated Mayakovsky Academic Art Theater in Moscow, Russia. Her play, "The Past Is Still Ahead", directed by Swiss director, Francois Rochaix, has been performed as an Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater, has toured London at the Pushkin House, and has been performed at the JCC Theater and at Oxford University.  It has also been performed to rave reviews at the Mayakovsky Academic Art Theater and at the Millennium Theater in Brooklyn, NY. Her most recent play, "A Sweet Word Of Advice" which Ms. Romma also directed, was performed at the JCC Theater in Manhattan and at the Midtown International Theater Festival. The Negro Ensemble Company has just presented Ms. Romma's two-one acts, "With Aaron's Arms Around Me" and "The Mire" as an Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater.  The plays were directed by Charles Weldon and received grand reviews in the New York Times.  Ms. Romma is the author of the Garnet Grand Prix Winning film, Poor Liza, (first prize for screenwriting and best original film at the St. Petersburg Literature in Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.)  The film was directed by cult-director of Liquid Sky , Slava Tsukerman and starred Academy Award Winner, Lee Grant and Academy Award Nominee, Ben Gazzara.  She also shot and directed the Award-Wining documentary, "Sex Acts For Hire"  (an undercover glimpse into the Russian prostitution ring).

Ms. Romma has taught Drama at the Lander College for Women, Screenwriting at the New York Film Academy, and Fundamentals of Playwriting and Screenwriting at the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center.  She will be conducting courses on Screenwriting 1 and The Fundamentals of Playwriting this spring at the NEC, and is slated to conduct a course, entitled, "Classic Narrative Hollywood Film and Avant-garde Cinema" next term.