cunnicularii with Good Apples Collective
Welcome!
photo by Nina Goodheart
Here’s what my bio says:
Sophie McIntosh (she/her) is a New York–based playwright and theatermaker. Her writing gives voice to women and queer folks, leans into Midwestern existentialism, and explores how our interactions with animals reflect back our own humanity.
Sophie is the co-founder of Good Apples Collective, a developmental orchard for new theatrical works that she co-leads with her frequent collaborator Nina Goodheart.
Recent productions of Sophie’s work include the world premiere of macbitches (New York Times Critic’s Pick), the premieres of cunnicularii (recommended by Sara Holdren in NY Magazine) and cityscrape at Good Apples Collective, and Eleven Weeks of Nuclear Summer at Notre Dame University and the University of Michigan.
Sophie’s plays have also been developed by Pioneer Theatre Company, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, the Bechdel Group, the Unicorn Theatre, Atlanta Shakespeare Company, and Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, and her work has been performed at colleges across the country.
She is a proud recipient of a BA in drama from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and is currently working toward an MFA in playwriting at Columbia University (class of 2025).
Sophie is represented by Chris Till with Paradigm.
She can be reached at sophiemcintoshwrites@gmail.com.
Here’s what I have to say:
Hey there! Thanks for stopping by. I love what I do and I love getting to share it with people.
I’m proudly queer and proud to hail from Wisconsin, though I’m now happily rooted here in NYC. My favorite things in the world are rats, rabbits, olives, and walking too fast.
I’m extremely passionate about empowering emerging artists to advocate for themselves. (Have you reread the Dramatist’s Bill of Rights lately? Now’s your chance!) This includes exploring new structures of theatermaking that prioritize care, community, and equity. When I’m not working on new plays, I spent my time creating resources and events for indie artists through my pride and joy, Good Apples Collective.
College theater is so very important to me, and I care deeply about creating roles for college-aged actors that reflect their real age and the actual challenges they face.
Have a good one!
In rehearsals for the after wife (photo by Ryan Prado)
Here’s what other folks have said about my work:
“A tight 85-minute exercise in youthful ambition and the correupting clashing of egos… with a fantastic understanding of tone and genre, macbitches juggles headier themes while remianing a lively college drama.”
— The New York Times (Critic’s Pick)
“Sophie McIntosh's cunnicularii at Good Apples Collective is a sly, shoestring-budget cabinet-of-wonders… cunnicularii isn't some 1:1 parable about postpartum depression; it's a humanist mystery in the absurdist tradition. The play shows a real person making her way through a bizarre environment, a world "out of harmony" that feels familiar without seeming real.”
“macbitches gives its characters depth and distinctive complexity… the women of macbitches are never less than vividly human, and are all the more memorable for it.”
“A swiftly cinematic marvel… (cunnicularii) demonstrates McIntosh’s immense skill at exploring womanhood across a range of genres, modes, and tones.”
“Bloody brilliant… McIntosh takes Shakespearean and grounds them in a new reality. Envy, ambition, treachery, and corruption look different among college girls than among soldiers and kings: while the latter may have farther reaching consequences, the first hits harder for a modern audience.
