Sophie Bouey is a Toronto-based actor, singer, puppeteer, dancer, writer, and photographer. Born in China and raised on Vancouver Island, she began performing in plays and musicals at the age of 5. While completing the four-year BFA in Acting program at the University of Windsor, she trained in a breadth of acting, voice, movement, and devising techniques such as Stanislavski, Chekhov, Hagen, Meisner, Linklater, Laban, Viewpoints, Lecoq, and Commedia dell’arte.
After graduating, she moved to Toronto to work with Clay and Paper Theatre, expanding her puppetry skills and performing for communities all over Toronto. Shortly after that, her theatre criticism was recognized by the Canadian Theatre Critics Association when she won the Nathan Cohen Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Critic and became a freelance writer for Intermission Magazine.
Training: Honours BFA in Acting from the University of Windsor (Mitchell Cushman, Lee Wilson, Meaghen Quinn, Marc Bondy, Lionel Walsh, Alice Nelson). Musical Theatre and Classical Vocal Training (Jennifer Swanson, Carrie Lemke), Choral training (Jennifer Riley). Ballet (Pointe), Musical Theatre, Tap, and Jazz (Lindsay Sterk, Candice Woloshyn, Christy Kooman, Victoria Hanaway, Silvia Yagüe)
Selected Theatre Credits: Blue Sky Puppeteer in Art Ambulance (Clay and Paper Theatre), Violet Hunter in The Sweet Science of Bruising (University Players/Mitchell Cushman), Various Roles in On the Edge — and Over (University Players/Seana McKenna), Edna Schmidt and Helen Palmer u/s, perf. (Windsor Feminist Theatre/Patricia Fell), Ariel in The Tempest (Robinson Wilson).