(Producer)
WEST END THEATRE INCLUDES That Face by Polly Stenham, directed by Jeremy Herrin; Boeing-Boeing by Marc Camoletti, directed by Matthew Warchus (also on Broadway and Australian tour); Dealer’s Choice by Patrick Marber, directed by Samuel West; Rock ’n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard, directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Brian Cox, Sinead Cusack and Rufus Sewell (also on Broadway); Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin, adapted by David Greig and Rufus Norris, directed by Rufus Norris; In Celebration by David Storey, directed by Anna Mackmin, starring Orlando Bloom; The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter, directed by Harry Burton, starring Lee Evans and Jason Isaacs; King of Hearts by Alistair Beaton, directed by Ramin Gray and Max Stafford-Clark; Love Song by John Kolvenbach, directed by John Crowley, starring Neve Campbell, Kristen Johnston, Michael McKean and Cillian Murphy; Bent by Martin Sherman, directed by Daniel Kramer, starring Alan Cumming; Eh Joe by Samuel Beckett, directed by Atom Egoyan, starring Michael Gambon; Faith Healer by Brian Friel, directed by Jonathan Kent, starring Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones and Ian McDiarmid (Broadway); Donkeys’ Years by Michael Frayn, directed by Jeremy Sams; The Woman in White, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, directed by Trevor Nunn (also on Broadway); Shoot the Crow by Owen McCafferty, directed by Robert Delamere, starring James Nesbitt, Conleth Hill and Jim Norton; Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray, directed by Simon Curtis, starring Richard E Grant; As You Like It, directed by David Lan, starring Helen McCrory, Sienna Miller and Dominic West; The Home Place by Brian Friel, directed by Adrian Noble, starring Tom Courtenay; On the Third Day by Kate Betts, directed by Robert Delamere (co-production with Channel 4’s The Play’s The Thing); Guantanamo: ‘Honor Bound to Defend Freedom’ by Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo, directed by Nicolas Kent and Sacha Wares; Endgame by Samuel Beckett, directed by Matthew Warchus, starring Michael Gambon and Lee Evans; Whose Life Is It Anyway? by Brian Clark, directed by Peter Hall, starring Kim Cattrall; By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr, directed by Dominic Cooke, starring Holly Hunter; Jumpers by Tom Stoppard, directed by David Leveaux, starring Simon Russell Beale; Calico by Michael Hastings, directed by Edward Hall, starring Imelda Staunton and Romola Garai; See You Next Tuesday by Francis Veber, adapted by Ronald Harwood, starring Nigel Havers and Ardal O’Hanlon; Hitchcock Blonde by Terry Johnson, starring David Haig and Rosamund Pike; Absolutely! {perhaps} by Pirandello, in a new version by Martin Sherman, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Joan Plowright; Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet, starring Matthew Perry, Minnie Driver, Hank Azaria and Kelly Reilly; Ragtime the musical; Macbeth, directed by Edward Hall, starring Sean Bean and Samantha Bond; What the Night is For by Michael Weller, directed by John Caird, starring Gillian Anderson and Roger Allam; A Day in the Death of Joe Egg by Peter Nichols, starring Eddie Izzard, Clive Owen and Victoria Hamilton (also on Broadway); Afterplay by Brian Friel, starring John Hurt and Penelope Wilton; Up for Grabs by David Williamson, starring Madonna; On an Average Day by John Kolvenbach, directed by John Crowley, starring Woody Harrelson and Kyle MacLachlan; Noises Off by Michael Frayn, directed by Jeremy Sams (also on Broadway); Benefactors by Michael Frayn, directed by Jeremy Sams; Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Mark Brokaw, starring David Tennant (transfer to New Ambassadors); Gagarin Way by Gregory Burke (transfer to Arts Theatre – Associate Producer); Maria Friedman at the New Ambassadors; Marc Salem’s Mind Games; A Servant to Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni in a new adaptation by Lee Hall; Port Authority by Conor McPherson; Spoonface Steinberg by Lee Hall, starring Kathryn Hunter; Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet; In Flame by Charlotte Jones; The Mystery of Charles Dickens by Peter Ackroyd, starring Simon Callow; The Late Middle Classes by Simon Gray (UK tour); Last Dance at Dum Dum, a new play by Ayub Khan Din.
In 1993 Sonia co-founded Out of Joint with Max Stafford-Clark, now one of Britain’s leading and most successful touring companies, with whom she is still actively involved as a Board Member. Whilst at Out of Joint, Sonia produced the new plays: The Queen and I by Sue Townsend; The Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys; The Steward of Christendom by Sebastian Barry; The Break of Day by Timberlake Wertenbaker; The Positive Hour by April de Angelis; Shopping and Fucking by Mark Ravenhill; Our Lady of Sligo by Sebastian Barry; Blue Heart by Caryl Churchill. Sonia has also produced The Man of Mode, Road and Three Sisters at the Royal Court, and Our Country’s Good. She also produced Maria Friedman by Special Arrangement at the Donmar Warehouse. From 1989 to 1993 Sonia was Head of Mobile Productions and Theatre for Young People, at the Royal National Theatre.
SFP is a subsidiary of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
