writer credits
STAGE
2017 The Fake Interpreter, British Council/Artscape
2014 Holiday Selfie, Pulse Festival, Ipswich, in development with Tin Bath theatre company.
2013 I’d Rather Go Blind (Graeae/Plymouth Royal (in development)
2012 ‘Bee Detective’ tours 2012 as part of London 2012 Festival. (Tin Bath theatre co).
2011 – Stratford City 2013 Scratch at Rich Mix Theatre (Penned in the Margins/Riot Acts)
2011 – ‘I Would Rather Go Blind’ in development. (Graeae playlab)
August 2010 ‘You’re so Happy’ work in progress scratch @ mac as part of Theatre Sandbox commission.
September 2009 ‘Fight Face’ @ Decibel Performing Arts Showcase, Manchester, performing with Nick Khan, dir. Gemma Fairlie
16 September-4 October 2008 – Fight Face at Lyric Hammersmith, written and performed by Sophie Woolley, also starring David Rubin. Directed by Gemma Fairlie
August 2006 – 2008 When to Run – one person play. Toured UK with sell out shows at Soho Theatre, South Bank Centre and Manchester Royal Exchange
August 2007 Monologues ‘I Heart Shoreditch’ and ‘Really Bad Secret’ performed by actors at BIRDS, Hen & Chickens Theatre directed by Hannah Berrigan-Taplin
2006 Tell Your Dad I Want my Pants Back, monologue performed at Soho theatre by Daniela Nardini
May 2005-May 2006 Attached writer on Soho Theatre Writers Attachment Programme
July 2005 Game Shop Fag Kiss (short play) was performed by Mark Monero and Nicola Stephenson at Soho Theatre.
June 2005 – Sightseeing. Collaboration with Dipo Agboluaje on a piece of theatre for the event on the London Eye, Flight 5065
TV, Film & Internet
2016 The New Colonialist, web series.
2015 Country Girl in Gugulethu, short film
2015 Expat on a Balcony, short film, Screened at Turner Contemporary Gallery and LSFF January 2016.
2011 YouTube series, DEAF FAKER.
2011 FRUSTRATED MUMS TV Pilot (Channel 4 screenwriting course) in development.
RADIO
2013 Abolutely Delish: Grazing, sitcom, Radio 4
2010 CARBON CLEANSING Radio 4 afternoon play. Comedy drama written by Sophie Woolley,
Tabitha …… Doon Mackichan
Will …… Joseph Kloska
Samantha …… Gemma Saunders
Mary …… Tessa Nicholson
Reporter …… John Biggins
Directed by David Hunter.
2009 ‘Poodle Mood’ wrote and performed specially commissioned monologue on Radio 3 The Verb 25 Oct.
2008 – When to Run BBC Radio 4 afternoon play, adapted from the stage play by Sophie Woolley
Julia …… Katy Cavanagh
Shelley …… Sophie Woolley
Emma …… Tracy Wiles
Celia …… Liza Sadovy
Producer & Director…… David Hunter
2007- Radio 4 Front Row Wrote and performed satirical column in character as Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter
2007 – Radio 1 Rob da Bank show – monologues
2007 – Sparks radio short on Radio 3 The Verb
2007 – Radio 3 The Verb – character monologues
2006 – Exerpts from When to Run on two editions of BBC Radio 3’s The Verb programme
2005- Wrote and acted in a play broadcast live on Resonance 104.4fm
2005 – Monologue on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb programme
2005 – Monologue on BBC Radio 4’s Bespoken Word programme.
2004 – Monologue for BBC Radio 3 The Verb programme
2004 – Monologue recorded live for Facing Leicester Square, a specially commissioned show forBBC Radio 3 drama.
2002 – Monologue for BBC Radio 3 The Verb.
1999 – Performed monologue live on London Live.
1998 – Took part in the BBC/Arts Council Write out Loud scheme and made a five minute programme called ‘My Life is Now’ and a spoof documentary half hour drama pilot for Radio 4 called ‘Alcopopdocaholic’.
FICTION
October 2017 Angel Underground, flash fiction, Important Nothings anthology, Kingston University Press.
2011 I am the Walrus, short story, One for the Trouble, Book Slam Anthology.
2009 Tell Tales Volume IV The Global Village, edited by Monique Roffey and Courttia Newland, short story ‘Elusive Arthur’ by Sophie Woolley
2005 Game Shop Fag Kiss, ten minute play written on attachment at Soho Theatre and published in the arts tri-quartely journal Arete.
2005 Triffic Gets Wet, short story in Dreams that Money Can Buy anthology
2004 Epic Slinky translated into Slovene for Slovenian anthology of English writing Zacetek Necesa Velikega, including work by Zadie Smith, Ali Smith and Toby Litt, published by Beletrina.
2004 ‘Sniff’ short story about a seven year old girl in North West London in Matter anthology. Edited by Em Brett, Lily Dunn and Leigh Money.
2003 ‘Epic Slinky’, short story in New Writing 12 anthology, edited by Diran Adebayo, Jane Rogers and Blake Morrison.
2003 Various writings for Marmalade magazine.
2002 ‘Freedom’ short story commissioned by Victoria Miro Gallery for a collection connected toChris Offili’s Freedon exhibition
2001 ‘Alpha Male’ and ‘I Heart Shoredtich’ in renaissance one Modern Love anthology
2000-2002 various writings for Shoreditch Twat zine
2000 Short story in The Idler ‘Hell’ issue
1997-1998 ‘D.J Bird Diary’, regular spoof column, Sleaze Nation magazine
1997 short story in Allnighter anthology (Pulp Faction)
BIOG…
Sophie Woolley was born in Glasgow and grew up in London. She recently starred in DRAGONFLY, a Radio 4 play by Katie Hims (dir. Susan Roberts). This year her theatre company, Tin Bath, tours BEE DETECTIVE.
In 2011 she created spoof YouTube series, DEAF FAKER. She also completed the Channel 4 screenwriting course.
Sophie starred as Gabriella in CAST OFFS, the brilliant Channel 4 drama series written by Jack Thorne, Alex Bulmer and Tony Roche, produced by Eleven Films.
Sophie often appears on BBC Radio (including The Verb and Front Row) and has written two Radio 4 afternoon plays: WHEN TO RUN (2008), and CARBON CLEANSING (2010).
Sophie was an attached writer at Soho Theatre in 2005-2006. Sophie’s first play, WHEN TO RUN premiered at Edinburgh Festival in 2006 produced by renaissance one, and toured the UK until June 2008, with sell out runs at the Royal Festival Hall, Soho Theatre and Manchester Royal Exchange. Sophie’s radio adaptation of the show was broadcast on Radio 4’s afternoon play slot in 2008.
Irvine Welsh called WHEN TO RUN “a stunning, electrifying show full of imagination and verve”, and her work has been compared to Chris Morris’ trend-destroying series Nathan Barley and cult TV show Nighty Night.
In 2008 Sophie set up Tin Bath Theatre Company with Gemma Fairlie (who directed When to Run) and their first play FIGHT FACE had a three week run at Hammersmith Lyric.
Sophie has appeared on Channel 4’s The Art Show and Shoreditch Tw*t Comedy Lab pilot. Her short stories and satires have been published in Sleaze Nation(including the D.J. Bird Diaries about an evil DJ groupie), Shoreditch Twat, The Idler, Marmalademagazine Matter, and the Dreams that Money Can Buy and Picador New Writing 12 anthologies. Her writing has been translated into Slovene and Mandarin for British Council anthologies.