Sophia Gutchinov is an award-winning multi-ethnic multidisciplinary artist, actress, performance artist, comedian, model, and voice over artist based in New York City.

Currently, she is developing her one woman show at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club! She was an artist in residence here in 2021-2022.

She just completed an artistic residency in Sicily, Italy this summer and performed in the Trinacria Arts Festival! She also completed a fieldwork fellowship in Mongolia for the American Center for Mongolian Studies about biodiversity, regarding the only wild horse left in the world!

She loves creating through collaboration. She creates art that sparks a conversation, has a message, and makes you laugh. Sophia also makes art for social change and healing. She graduated in the top 10 of her class at Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA in Acting and minor in Neuroscience. Sophia brings her spontaneous, dedicated, and adventurous personality to her art.

She advocates for racial equality and gave a speech in front of NY senators, featured on NBC Channel 4 NY, demanding change for the AAPI community. Click here to watch.

Sophia can be seen and heard in:

• In a Lancôme commercial. Click here for details.

• In two Minute Maid commercials. Click here for details.

• In a Marvel production, called Marvels, alongside Method Man and AnnaSophia Robb that can be heard on Stitcher Premium, voicing Bronx Radio DJ and Bodega Owner. Click here for details.

• In a Walmart commercial about mindful eating. Click here for details.

• In a Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs commercial, celebrating the Fourth of July. Click here for details.

• She has shot for Adore Me, Maybelline, Lancôme, and Topgolf as well.

• Starring in How to NY, a comedic web series, under her production company, The Tadpoles. Click here for details.

Her mixed media collage won the 1st Salamander International Art Award in Paris, France at the Monteoliveto Gallery and is currently in the “Dream” exhibit in Naples, Italy for sale. Her art has been exhibited at various galleries, theatre spaces, and nightclubs in NYC.

Sophia also has made various performance art pieces that have to do with our democracy, the Statue of Liberty, racial equality, and being a woman.

She regularly teaches webinars about the business of acting with Latitude Talent Studios. She has been interviewed in Backstage (print and digital) and Casting Networks, giving advice for aspiring actors and on her acting career.

She created pandemic-themed comedic sketches like...

• Playing personified America in America’s Founding Daddy Issues, inspired by the Reductress article, America’s Bad Taste in Men Stems From Founding-Daddy Issues, written by SNL writer Jasmine Pierce. Click here to watch.

• Playing one of the 40 million Americans on unemployment right now in the Unemployment Parody Commercial, produced by The Tadpoles. Click here to watch.

• Playing her version of Stefon talking about NY's Hottest Quarantine Club being the grocery store, inspired by SNL. Click here to watch.

• Playing Seth, a new bro character developed under The Tadpoles, in BROVID-19 about pickup lines. Click here to watch.

• Creating a Quarantine Song Monologue for a good cause to encourage donating what you would normally pay for your daily coffee to New Life Charity, to help terminally ill children with the repercussions of COVID-19.

  If you’ve made it this far, hi :) I’m Sophia!

-avid meditator & morning pages daily

-traveler (been to 18 countries thus far)

-life exists in movement through cycling, swimming, the gym, dance, etc.

-concert-goer/music-lover

-loves kids, after school debate/public speaking/acting teacher

-animal-lover (has taken care of dogs, cats, bunnies, tortoises, fish)

-volunteers regularly whether that be with the nonprofit Glamour Gals helping to end elderly loneliness or with animals in need of help like abused horses in Tuscany, Italy or at a dog shelter in San Salvador, Peru

-ENFJ