Sophia Alawi

June 2024

Sophia Alawi headshot Sophia (she, her) is thrilled to return to San Francisco Playhouse! She won the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award for Featured Actress – Musical in 2019 for Groundhog Day The Musical and was named one of “Five Standout Performances” in 2019 by the Houston Chronicle for the role of Wendla in Spring Awakening. Regional credits include As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and Groundhog Day The Musical (San Francisco Playhouse), She Loves Me, Merrily We Roll Along, Fun Home (42nd Street Moon), The Sound of Music (Hillbarn Theatre), Spring Awakening (Theater Under The Stars), and In the Heights (Playhouse on Park). New York credits include Fat Kid Rules the World and Emerson Loses Her Mind. Television credits include Law & Order: SVU. Sophia earned a BFA from Rider University and also studied at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, T. Schreiber, and The Barrow Group in New York. She is also a singer-songwriter. Her debut single “Attachment Theory” is available on all streaming platforms. Also, give the web series she wrote, produced, and starred in a follow. @hayawanseries | @sophiaintronaalawi