Jenna Sofia - news

HALLELUJAH all over the place

1/23/2018

Hallelujah, my good people. There is much movement and it's gorgeous!

First off, mark your calendars: I play a set at Mike Geffner's Inspired Word on Monday, February 12th @ 9pm. Come on down to the Parkside Lounge on Houston.

1) Poisoning the Prophets the screenplay has been through many drafts since my last update, and we're having our FIRST READING at the end of February. Pretty damn stoked.

2) The evening I gigged at PINE BOX ROCK SHOP with Sarah Wise and Chris Q Murphy at the end of December was nothing short of magical. Here's a cover from my set:

3) We wrapped SIDE PIECE early last month (written by Alexandra Nader and directed by E.A. Moss. I keep attracting these badass scripts made by badass women. THANK YOU! Yes please, more please... The whole experience was a JAM. Photos soon!

4) And now, onto Donut Shop. Details to come!

xoJ

SCREENPLAY COMPLETE (DRAFT 1, anyway!) + Maverick Movie Awards

11/4/2017

Hello gorgeous creatures!
You may be interested to know...
1) POISONING THE PROPHETS the screenplay exists.... in its very first first start-to-finish version!! Tony and I printed DRAFT #1 yesterday and read the whole damn thing aloud. We're leaving it alone for at least a week to let it settle before we start hacking away with our edits.
The great news is, WE SEE A WAY FORWARD, and truly cannot wait to put this story out into the world. Here we are yesterday:

2) I was stoked to find out that the Maverick Movie Awards nominated me in the
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS category for playing Mindy in CHOCOLATE AND CIGARETTES (dir. Dave Tappan)!! Woooop

Hope you all have a gorgeous weekend!

xoJenna

Jenna Schooled by Her Screenplay + other updates

7/6/2017

Comarades,
I'm not here on the website so much these days. I'm quick to Instagram, though, so come on over and follow me there if you're so inclined: @msjennasofia
Since I've been gone:

1) Poisoning the Prophets - stage to screen!!
Current Status: WHIPPED BY SCREENWRITING. Tony Bordonaro and I are currently expanding what was our 14-minute surreal, camp dance-theatre murder mystery and adapting it into a feature film - a sci-fi Film Noir. Check out our Instagram feed - our heads have been buried in the laptop this past month but we'll be posting some fun things there soon!
@poisoningtheprophets #poisoningtheprophets

Photos courtesy of Gisella Sorrentino/Gaze Photography 2016. Poisoning the Prophets premiered @ LPAC as part of MNElements' Emerging Choreographer Series 2016.

2) PANTHEATRE in NYC.
Dionysus smiled on us and poured wine on our heads. Another immersive week of workshops with PanTheatre at Punto Space after two years and I'm freshly challenged by this work, and renewed and revitalized in spirit. Choreographic Theatre with Enrique Pardo blew my mind once again and Vocal Performance with Linda Wise was an absolute revelation.
Below is a photo Rafael Acata took on the last evening during the final showing of our work.

3) Second Seed Project: Part 1 - 12/1/16 @ Dixon Place
Back in December, I debuted my first sorta-solo original show... It was certainly not a one-woman-only show; I was lucky enough to collaborate with Jeri Silverman, who played guitar with me on two songs; Terence Ma, who played piano on Tango for Pope Francis; Fernando Papolo Polanco, who papally danced that tango with me; and Tony Bordonaro, who co-directed the show with me all the way from Shanghai. The show was composed of seeds of original stories and songs, and may be part of a larger 3-part project. For the moment, the focus of my creation rests on the next stages of Poisoning the Prophets. Looking forward to sharing the process with you!

After the Radio Silence (or, Jenna plays catch-up)

6/21/2016

Hello friends, family, & followers of my work and life!
So, this has been a 4-month period of Serious Neglect to My Lovely Website.
O website, forgive me: te quiero mucho.
What's great is, I've been neglectful because of GOOD THINGS! Let's see...

WORK

1) A House of Skin and Bone

Back in April, Nettles Artists Collective premiered A House of Skin and Bone at PUNTO Space as part of its #puntogivesback initiative --okay, it wasn't the OFFICIAL premiere, which will take place in April 2017 between National Mental Health Awareness Month and National Poetry Month --this was a "work-in-progress presentation" (ahem, we had costumes and lights. It was a show, SANDIE LUNA: IT WAS A SHOW). We explored addiction and depression through the gorgeous language of the play (we spoke in poetry! It was physical theatre! My soul was fed!).

-Based on Loren Kleinman's book, The Dark Cave Between My Ribs &
-adapted for the stage by our wonderful directors, Sandie Luna and Montserrat Vargas.
-I played depressed poet protagonist Woman
-Puy Navarro played the alcoholic Mother &
-Ibsen Santos played a nebulous, promiscuous Man who embodies addiction and all the co-dependence and betrayal that comes with it.

Audiences were visibly moved, and beyond generous in the Q&A discussions that followed the workshop showings. They shared feedback, stories, experience. It was extremely gratifying to be part of this collaborative team.
Looking forward to sharing the next incarnation with you all when we mount the full production in April 2017!
Watch this space.

Photo credit: Israa Ismaeil

Photo credit: Jaime Puerta

2) Promo for eco-conscious festival, ENDOTREND

We shot the promo trailer for Endotrend, the nearly-zero-waste festival happening in October.
What's an Endo,
you ask?
<---- take a look. Things got goofy.

3) I'm working on a new piece. It's Part 1 of a larger project. There's music. That's all I'll say for now.

^^ getting perspective on the storyboard

Of course there's more, but I think that's quite enough for the moment.
I'll be writing soon (way sooner than four months).
xoJenna

Poisoning the Prophets

2/13/2016

created by Tony Bordonaro & Jenna Sofia

A love song for the honeybees.
(Based on a true story.)

February 22 & 23, 7PM @ LPAC's Little Theatre, Long Island City, NY.
You can buy tickets here.

Tony & I have been devising for the past 6 weeks as part of our residency with Mare Nostrum Elements' Emerging Choreographer Series 2016, and we're nearly ready to share our latest piece with all of you!
Come check out our camp, dance-theatre murder mystery inspired by the disappearance of the honeybees. It's an outta-this-world vacation.

Sexy GIFs created by Anthony Ernest Kieran.

the sandman chronicles - that's a wrap on us

11/17/2015

We wrapped The Sandman Chronicles on a lavish Southampton estate a little over a week ago but the scent of clueless lakeside croquet and vintage clothing lingers still.

Our fearless leader GRETTA WILSON sent a few teaser screen grabs - enjoy! The film will be completed sometime in December. Can't. WAIT.

sweet bird of youth @ the players club - friday 10.16.15

10/15/2015

Stoked for another Tennessee Williams reading with East 3rd Productions, part of their Tennessee Williams Project series of readings.

Sweet Bird of Youth is happening this Friday, October 16th @ The Players Club, NYC. The reading begins @6pm. Join us if you can!
Tickets: email east3rdpro@gmail.com

I'm playing Miss Lucy. Love me some sassy kept women.

first post!

10/14/2015

It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new website for me!
Feeling pretty good.
More soon. Stay tuned xx