Sophie Netanel is an actor and writer based in Brooklyn. She has won Best Actress in a Film at the South Film and Arts Academy Festival and was nominated for Best Actress in the Primavera Film Festival and Austin Revolution Film Festival for her work in the film Without.
She has studied Shakespeare since she was twelve years old after being introduced to his plays at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. She loves sword fights and beautiful language.
Her writing has been seen at the Connelly Theater (SheNYC Arts Festival), the Providence Fringe Festival, Writing is Live (Brown University), and TinyRhino. Her play The Wife of Usher’s Well (based on an old Scottish folk tale) won Best Production at the SheNYC Arts Festival. She is currently working on a play about the brilliant Margaret Cavendish: the philosopher, poet, and science fiction writer from the 1600s.
Originally from Southern California, she loves to volunteer with her mom Victoria Netanel’s charity, Mini Therapy Horses. She often is a handler for Pearl, a thirteen year old mini horse, visiting children at Ronald McDonald houses and veterans at the Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles.