Sophia Fabiilli

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Sophia Fabiilli (she/her) is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, and educator. Her works include: The Philanderess (The Second City Award for Best New Comedy), How to Stand Up (Ellen Ross Stuart Opening Doors Award), Liars at a Funeral (commissioned and developed by the Blyth Festival where it premiered in 2023 directed and dramaturged by Krista Jackson; subsequent productions at the Thousand Islands Playhouse where it broke the record for highest-selling comedy in the company’s history, Magnus Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Western Canada Theatre, Port Stanley Festival Theatre, Drayton Entertainment, and Prairie Theatre Exchange), and Why it’s imPossible (Great Canadian Theatre Company). She is a graduate of the Prime Time TV Writing Program at the Canadian Film Centre, wrote for the Emmy Award winning show Odd Squad, and was the Associate Artistic Director of the Thousand Islands Playhouse for three seasons. She is currently working on a new commission.

Works by Sophia Fabiilli

Liars at a Funeral

By Sophia Fabiilli

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Sophia Fabiilli has written a devilishly funny, complicated farce. Fabiilli has a wonderful facility with language and the jokes come naturally from people who are funny and irreverent. To ramp up the laughs not only do people enter and exit rooms just as someone arrives that they should not see, Fabiilli does it with twins. 

Lynn Slotkin

(Praise for For Liars at a Funeral:)

Fabiilli has woven together a number of diabolically clever theatrical devices to create a wickedly plotted and ingeniously worked out play, one of the best I’ve seen in a good long while. Oh yes, and it’s also uproariously funny.

Stratford Festival Reviews