the long bio
Hi, I’m Soph! I’m an NYC-based MFA-trained actor, singer, dance-lover, clown, mask-maker, interdisciplinary artist, and multi-hyphenate performer. I have also lived in California, Munich, Montreal, and spent time in the American southwest. I love the backpacking in the high desert, yoga by the ocean, long distance biking, and running through NYC’s parks.
I have my MFA in Acting from UCI and my BA in Classical Voice and Drama from McGill University.
I am a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
I am signed with MC Talent Management and Avalon Artists Group.
I play Tanya in the queer rom-com What Are We? (dir. Eileen Hanley), which is screening in NYC on Jan 10 - come see it!
It’s a Cannes Indie semi-finalist, & winner of Best Romance at LGBTQIA Toronto / LA.
Other on-screen moments: I Am No Longer Here (Netflix, dir. Fernando Frias de la Parra), Mean Girl Murders (HBO, dir. Bill Kerr), Bugged (pilot; dir. Katie Schiller), Portrait of Frances, Enclosed (Palm Springs 2020; dir. Katie Schiller), Heirloom (Hudsy; dir. Alec Simmons), Riis: A Gay Odd-ussy (indie; dir. Claire McClain), Emily, Rachel and Joseph (dir. Joseph O’Malley).
On stage, in NYC, I’ve played Feste with The Acting Company, and I also work on new work with Tectonic Theatre Project, The Neighborhood, The Village, The New York Neofuturists, F*cked Up Playfest, and Make/Shift Theatre Company. I’ve worked regionally at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Montreal Fringe, and PEI Fringe.
I make my own work. Most recently I’ve been developing a show called Two Twinks from New Jersey and the Search for a Meaningful Existence (see the Stuff I Make tab).
I am also a writer and teaching artist. I teach Acting and Voice at AMDA in NYC. I specialize in Fitzmaurice Voicework and Knight-Thompson Speechwork.
I coach privately, focusing on grad school audition prep and Shakespeare.
The coaching tab has more information about that if you’d like to chat.
In the Press
King Lear - Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival
“The scenes with his Fool are delicious. Kudos to the spunky and resourceful Metcalf, every bit up to the task as the one character allowed to tell the truth to the fallen monarch.”
Good Times, Christina Waters. Aug 4 2023.
The Tempest - Utah Shakespeare Festival
“Sophia K. Metcalf was effervescent as island spirit Ariel. Metcalf’s light, limber performance was heavily inspired by dance with songs firmly rooted in 1990s alt-rock à la The Cranberries and Alanis Morissette.”
UTBA, B.F. Isaacson. July 19 2022.
Mother of God - Theatre in Flux
“The show is a participatory theatrical experience that uses a blend […] stand-up and storytelling to explore an untold side of Mary […] [It] marks Metcalf’s debut as a solo artist and highlights their remarkably humorous demeanor.”
The New University, McKenzie Sarah Boney. June 21, 2021.
The Penelopiad - UCI
"Odysseus is such an iconic character […] we recognize Odysseus as this epic hero. […] ‘The Penelopiad’ meshes with that by playing with themes of power, gender and learning ‘the other side of any story’.”
The Daily Pilot, Lilly Nguyen. February 6, 2020.
East of Berlin - Players’ Theatre
"Metcalf is the clear standout of the production—she brings a nervous physicality to the role that makes her character almost instantly sympathetic, and delivers her lines with the gravitas needed to fully express her character’s conflicting feelings."
McGill Tribune, Christopher Lutes. January 13, 2016.
Vibrator Play - McGill University
"Metcalf does an enthralling job bringing life and poignancy to some of Ruhl’s more complicated and philosophical monologues, and in scenes between Metcalf and Choudhury viewers can almost feel the aching between Mrs. and Dr. Givings’ experience."
McGill Tribune, April Barrett. November 23, 2015.