Sofia Gallucci is a British-Italian director and dramaturg creating bold, multidisciplinary new work and reimagined classics that blend ensemble, music, movement, and visual storytelling. Her practice is text-driven and idea-driven, embracing a theatricality that is playful, political, and driven by curiosity.

Her work interrogates gender, power, and myth through contemporary performance languages.

Born in the Midlands, Sofia began her career as a fly-on-the-wall in RSC rehearsal rooms as a teenager, before journeying through theatres across the South West and now basing herself in London.

She has directed, assisted, and collaborated on productions across the UK and the West End, including at the RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe, Bristol Old Vic, the Kiln, and the Watermill Theatre. She was Resident Director on SIX (West End) and won the 2024 Tall Stories Directors’ Award for Hussy.

As a facilitator, Sofia is Creative Learning Associate and a Young Trustee at Pilot Theatre, where she develops outreach and engagement schemes in schools for the Deaf. She is currently completing a PhD in Trans Studies and Early Modern Drama at the University of Exeter. As a hard-of-hearing artist, accessibility and communication are central to her practice, shaping how she approaches liveness, language, and the shared space between performer and audience.

Sofia is represented by Tom Ping at Global Artists.

(Alongside all of this, Sofia enjoys running, cooking, history and talking about herself in the third-person)

Selected directing credits:
The Young Cleopatra (Royal Academy of Music); Ophelia Ophelia Ophelia (Camden Fringe); Hamblett (Edinburgh Fringe); Hussy (Workshop, Tall Stories Studio); Have a Nice Day! (Old Red Lion Theatre); Conversations We Never Had (Theatre Deli); Stockholm (The Wardrobe Theatre); Pot Luck (Bristol Old Vic Weston Studio); Eton Mess (Exeter Northcott).

Associate / assistant / resident credits:
Coven (Kiln Theatre – Associate Director, Dir. Miranda Cromwell); Petty Men (Arcola Theatre – Dramaturg, Dir. Júlia Levai); The Constant Wife (Swan Theatre, RSC – Assistant Director, Dir. Tamara Harvey); Canned Goods (Southwark Playhouse – Assistant Director, Dir. Charlotte Cohn); All’s Well That Ends Well (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – Assistant Director, Dir. Chelsea Walker); Barnum (The Watermill Theatre – Assistant Director, Dir. Jonathan O’Boyle); Much Ado About Nothing (The Watermill Theatre – Assistant Director, Dir. Paul Hart); Part of the Plan (Rambert – Associate Director, Dir. Marc Bruni); SIX (Vaudeville Theatre, West End – Resident Director, Dir. Jamie Armitage & Lucy Moss); Catastrophe Bay (Bristol Old Vic – Assistant Director, Dir. Derek Bond); Pride and Prejudice (Bristol Old Vic – Assistant Director, Dir. Jenny Stephens).