Sophia Chetin-Leuner

Sophia is a writer from London. Her play THIS MIGHT NOT BE IT was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting (2020). In 2024, it received an extended, sell-out run at the Bush Theatre. It was published by Nick Hern Books. It was first developed when Sophia was on the Bush Theatre’s Emerging Writers’ Group (2018-19).

    
Sophia received the Dalio Foundation Scholarship to study at NYU Tisch’s Dramatic Writing MFA (2016-8). Sophia began writing PORN PLAY while there, which was also shortlisted for the Women’s Prize and was a finalist for the Verity Bargate Award (2022). It debuted at the Royal Court Upstairs in November 2025, in a critically acclaimed, sold-out run directed by Josie Rourke and starring Ambika Mod.

In 2023, Sophia joined BBC’s Writer’s Room, where writers were selected from a nationwide open call and Sophia was one of just thirteen chosen from almost 5000 submissions (2022-3). Her pilot FIX was shortlisted for the C21 Drama Script competition (2021). In 2024, Sophia was selected for the BBC’s Writers Pilot cohort, a year long scheme partnering writers with production companies for the opportunity to write the first episode of a potential BBC commissioned original drama series or serial. Sophia is writing her pilot for Greenacre Films.