"Featured arguably the best performance of the year, from Sofia Jean Gomez as Nora. " - TimesSD
Commanding and charismatic, Gomez is perfect as Nora Helmer, the heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 masterpiece, who exited that play empowered and ready to take on the world....Gomez proves wholly magnetic in one of 2018’s most exquisite performances."- SD Beat
"Gomez, an off-Broadway veteran, brings Nora vivid, determined life without sacrificing her wit and humor. I can’t wait to see her in her next role."- SDGLN
Tartuffe at Berkeley Rep - March- April 12th:)
Directed by Dominique Serrand - The Moving Company - Steve Epp as Tartuffe
"Elmire, played by Sofia Jean Gomez. With super-supple agility, combining quick wit and yoga-slow body movements—craning her neck this way, arching her back that way while her body is folded under an elegant French gown spread out on the floor—Gomez’s Elmire parries with Tartuffe. Most of the action in this scene, one of two pivotal tête-à-têtes between these two characters, is played out on the ground: two throw rugs maneuvering like cats preparing to fight. Though much of this was funny, at no point did we lose sight of the danger in their contest." Shakespeare Theatre DC
Sign in Sidney Brustein's - OSF 2014
http://www.orartswatch.org/ashland-a-spring-in-its-step/
Sofia Jean Gomez, a fine, spunky Cordelia in last year’s King Lear, is a revelation as Iris. A cocktail of sweet tea and mercury, she’s by turns goofy, fragile, formidable, deflated, willful, and deeply sympathetic throughout. Her mastery of emotional tone makes the tricky mix of antagonism and affection, devotion and disappointment in the Sidney/Iris relationship feel marvelously authentic.
Two Gentleman of Verona - All Female Cast -OSF 2014 - role of Valentine
http://www.orartswatch.org/osf-seeks-the-man-in-two-gentlemen-of-verona/
"...Gomez’s skill interpreting and delivering text places them with some of the best actors I’ve seen at the festival. It’s sobering to realize how little opportunity these women have to display their abilities within Shakespeare’s canon, and exciting that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival was willing to become one of very few professional theatres interested in producing an all-female Shakespeare play. Far more than a gimmick or a superficial gesture towards equality, this production offers ample proof that all-female casts can transform and illuminate the familiar texts—and in this case, perhaps even improve them (at least to the modern eye)."
Sign in SIdney review:
Luis Alfaro - playwright, Avid Fan of Theatre
"But it’s the two wounded sisters that steal the show, or should I say the actors. Sofia Gomez creates a wonderful problem, she throws an imbalance to this play, you can’t take your eyes off of her. She is dynamic energy on stage and the role allows her to carry a wounded past all the way through, even through the humor of the play. I don't know her at all, but I find that she locates things in us as an audience and we can't help but want to follow her journey. That last scene devastates you. And those wigs..."
Directed by Dominique Serrand - The Moving Company - Steve Epp as Tartuffe
"Elmire, played by Sofia Jean Gomez. With super-supple agility, combining quick wit and yoga-slow body movements—craning her neck this way, arching her back that way while her body is folded under an elegant French gown spread out on the floor—Gomez’s Elmire parries with Tartuffe. Most of the action in this scene, one of two pivotal tête-à-têtes between these two characters, is played out on the ground: two throw rugs maneuvering like cats preparing to fight. Though much of this was funny, at no point did we lose sight of the danger in their contest." Shakespeare Theatre DC
Sign in Sidney Brustein's - OSF 2014
http://www.orartswatch.org/ashland-a-spring-in-its-step/
Sofia Jean Gomez, a fine, spunky Cordelia in last year’s King Lear, is a revelation as Iris. A cocktail of sweet tea and mercury, she’s by turns goofy, fragile, formidable, deflated, willful, and deeply sympathetic throughout. Her mastery of emotional tone makes the tricky mix of antagonism and affection, devotion and disappointment in the Sidney/Iris relationship feel marvelously authentic.
Two Gentleman of Verona - All Female Cast -OSF 2014 - role of Valentine
http://www.orartswatch.org/osf-seeks-the-man-in-two-gentlemen-of-verona/
"...Gomez’s skill interpreting and delivering text places them with some of the best actors I’ve seen at the festival. It’s sobering to realize how little opportunity these women have to display their abilities within Shakespeare’s canon, and exciting that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival was willing to become one of very few professional theatres interested in producing an all-female Shakespeare play. Far more than a gimmick or a superficial gesture towards equality, this production offers ample proof that all-female casts can transform and illuminate the familiar texts—and in this case, perhaps even improve them (at least to the modern eye)."
Sign in SIdney review:
Luis Alfaro - playwright, Avid Fan of Theatre
"But it’s the two wounded sisters that steal the show, or should I say the actors. Sofia Gomez creates a wonderful problem, she throws an imbalance to this play, you can’t take your eyes off of her. She is dynamic energy on stage and the role allows her to carry a wounded past all the way through, even through the humor of the play. I don't know her at all, but I find that she locates things in us as an audience and we can't help but want to follow her journey. That last scene devastates you. And those wigs..."