Sophie Drake

Sophie Drake is a theatre director and dramaturg based in London. ​She has worked on large scale shows in the West End and at multiple venues around the UK.
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She is the Resident Director for Broken Silence Theatre Company, where she co-leads the Playwrights Hive, runs a Script Report Service and directs work the company produces.

Sophie trained at the University of Leeds and received training under Michael Grandage on his West End production of Red starring Alfred Molina and Alfred Enoch. She has worked as a freelance practitioner for Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Pronouns: She/Her

Credits

DIRECTOR, Click Delete/ King's Head Theatre, 2022
DIRECTOR, Seawall / Turner Contemporary, 2022
DIRECTOR, I Lived for Art / The Guildhall, Salisbury, 2021
DIRECTOR, The Self Defence Club / Brighton Fringe, 2021
DIRECTOR, Vessel / UK Tour, 2020
DIRECTOR and Co-Curator, Voices From Home / Arcola, 2020
DIRECTOR, Speak / Workshop & Rehearsed Reading, 2020
DIRECTOR, Post / Old Red Lion, 2019
DIRECTOR, My Boys / Theatre503, 2019
DIRECTOR, Constellations / Hen & Chickens Theatre, 2018
DIRECTOR, Constellations / Banham Theatre, 2017
DIRECTOR, NSFW / Schonell Theatre, 2017

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Chalk Garden Dir. Sean Mathias, Theatre Royal Windsor, 2022
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Patriots Dir. Rupert Goold, Almeida Theatre , 2022
ASSISTANT/ RESIDENT DIRECTOR, Doctor Who: Time Fracture Dir. Tom Maller / Immersive Everywhere, 2022
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Hamlet Feature Film Dir. Sean Mathias, 2021
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Hamlet and The Cherry Orchard Dir. Sean Mathias / Theatre Royal Windsor, 21 weeks, 2021
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, God's Dice Dir. James Grieve / Soho Theatre, 5 weeks, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Weatherman Dir. Alice Hamilton / Park Theatre, 4 weeks, 2019
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Notice Dir. Tim Cook / Arcola Theatre, 1 night, 2019
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Maggie May Dir. Matthew Iliffe / Finborough Theatre, 4 weeks, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, In Lipstick Dir. Alice Hamilton / The Pleasance, 5 weeks, 2019
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, A Sticky Season Dir. Pollyanna Newcombe/ Tristan Bates, 1 week, 2018
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Homos, Or Everyone in America Dir. Josh Seymour / Finborough Theatre, 4 weeks, 2018

TRAINEE DIRECTOR, Red Dir. Michael Grandage/ Wyndham's Theatre, 2018

Training

Trained under Michael Grandage on his West End production of John Logan's RED starring Alfred Molina and Alfred Enoch.

Read English Literature & Theatre at the University of Leeds.