Sophia Vi is a Transgender British-Greek Cypriot writer, director, actor and CEO of Sophia Vi Productions. She trained at The London Studio Center and The International School of Screen Acting. 

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Her films have been selected for over 30 Film Festivals, Nationally and Internationally, qualifying her films for BAFTA and BIFA consideration and earning her the following awards; Best Micro Short (Iris Prize), Best LGBT+ (Cannes Short Film Festival) and The Audience Award (Athen Queer Movie Night), Grand Prize (Bendigo Film Festival) and Best LGBT+ (Florence Film Awards). 

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Within her theatrical work Sophia directed and co-produced Good Boy by James Farley which performed to sold out audiences at both Camden and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals receiving multiple 5* reviews and a Nomination at the Off West End Stage Awards (Offies). Further theatrical directorial, movement and associate work includes; Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d (UK National Tour), The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre - West End), Dear Lupin (Apollo Theatre - West End) and Coram Boy (LMA Graduate Show).

 

Sophia Vi was featured in British Vogue x Nike x Not A Phase as apart of Edward Enninful's representation campaign that was guest edited by international transgender celebrity and model Munroe Bergdorf. For her writing; Sophia was a Semi-Finalist in the LA Screenplay Awards and Winner of Best LGBT+ Screenplay at the Best Script Awards. 
 

An actress first foremost Sophia seeks use her production company to create the roles for actors that are often type-cast, pigeoned holed or overlooked. She strives to develop short form LGBT+ and Diasporic stories that can be developed for long form features.

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Press: 

‘[Sophia Vi] correspondingly shines brightly, exuding such a magnificently grounded, engagingly stirring and expressive performance as Eleni’ 

4.5* - One Film Fan (Koupepia)

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‘[Sophia Vi] has put physical comedy as the heart of the performance and it brings it to life’ 

5* - Broadway World (Twelfth Night)

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‘Director Sophia Vi skilfully uses pink hues to evoke the innocence of first times and transitions deep reds into blacks to underscore darker experiences […] Vi isn’t afraid to oscillate between kitschy sounds and stark silence, amplifying tension in key moments.’

5* - Edinburgh Festival Magazine (Good Boy)

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'The film was beautiful, the juxtaposition of the brutal imagery [...] and the words of Shakespeare delivered so perfectly [...] it was a very power piece'

Charlotte Amoss (Iris Prize Judge - Façade Press Release)