BIOGRAPHY

Sophie Wheeless is a Theatrical Director, Writer, and Painter based in Chicago. A recent graduate from Columbia College Chicago with a B.A. in Theatre, she has collaborated on a multitude of collegiate and local productions.

Her most recent directing credits include an original one-act cutting of No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre) , assisting on The Giver (Lois Lowry), and her final directing project The Nether (Jennifer Haley) for which she received a merit-based scholarship. She also had an original play, Encephalon, published and produced by the college during a New Playwrights festival.

Currently, she is the Production Manager for a local fringe theatre ensemble in Chicago, Fox and Spade Theatre Ensemble.

ARTIST STATEMENT

In the face of otherworldly situations, expectations, and experiences- the only constant is the undeniable urge to look inward.

My work embraces feminist storytelling, science, magic, challenges of existentialism, metaphor, the self, body horror, love - and everything else that just makes sense.