Sophie Siegel-Warren

Sophie Siegel-Warren is an assistant adjunct professor in the Department of Drama, Theatre & Dance where she teaches Introduction to Dramatic Literature. She received her BA from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where she studied English with a focus in dramatic literature and documentary performance and her MFA from David Geffen School of Drama at Yale in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism with a certificate in Theater Management. As a freelance dramaturg, Sophie has worked on a wide range of projects in both theater and film/TV. Her production dramaturgy credits include the pandemic-interrupted Antigone (World Premiere translation and adaptation by Kenneth Cavander, Westport Country Playhouse), Tori Sampson’s Cadillac Crew (World Premiere, Yale Repertory Theatre; subsequent virtual production as a part of Transformation 2020: Popular Democracy Defined); Doomscroll by Ricardo Beaird (The Guthrie Theatre’s Blackness Is… festival); Trouble in Mind, The Winter’s Tale, and Sweat (Yale). Sophie is a passionate arts educator who has worked with education initiatives at FirstWorks Providence, the Town Hall Foundation, Yale Repertory Theatre, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and the Dwight/Edgewood Project. She is currently a DFA Candidate at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, working on her dissertation in French translation.