Sophia Leonie

Writer

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Film, TV & Theatre

Assistant: Nacho Martin

Film, TV & Theatre

Sophia is a writer and performer. She studied writing at Middlesex University and acting at East 15. 

Her short film Love and More Important Things, was selected to premiere at the 2016 BUFF (British Urban Film Festival) as part of the Odeon Cinema Love Shorts collection. In 2019 her play 35 was longlisted for the Yard Theatre's First Drafts. A screen adaptation of this play was also longlisted by BBC’s Writers room 2019. 

Sophia also writes as a features & opinion writer and has had work published by a range of platforms, including  award winning online magazine, Gal-Dem. Sophia aims to create work that sparks debate; breaks down stereotypes, entertains – and crucially - initiates change. 

In 2021 Sophia was announced as one of five recipients of a new Screenwriting Bursary from Neal Street Productions.

For acting enquiries please contact Simon & How.

In Development

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AUDIO

GUIDANCE

Viacom

Audio Drama Series
8 x 30’

SCREEN

UNTITLED

Neal Street Productions

New pilot commission as part of their Screenwriting Bursary

THIRTY FIVE

TV pilot in development
Shortlisted top 15% BBC Writer’s Room
1 x 30'

ROCKS & HARD PLACES

HKS productions

Co-written with Mehreen Baig
1 x 60'

FINDING BELLE

TV Drama in development
1 x 50'

COMPLICIT

Co-writing with Adele James
TV pilot in development
1 x 60'

THEATRE

MILLENNIUM GIRLS

New play in development

Television

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HOLBY CITY

2021

BBC

SR 23 EP 46
1 x 40'

Theatre

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35

2019

Long-listed for Yard Theatre's First Drafts
Talawa Theatrea praised it as a "Warmly written character study of a crisis of age"

Short Films

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LOVE AND MORE IMPORTANT THINGS

2016

Xon Films

Premiered at British Urban Film Festival (BUFF) as part of Odeon 'Love Shorts' collection

Other

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FANTASTICALLY GREAT WOMEN

2020

BBC

Writers Room and Outline

ISADORA MOON

2020

Kelebek Media

Writers Room with Kelebek for a new animated series