Sophina Flores

Sophina Flores (She/Her) is the founder of local QTPOC dance theatre company Roots and All Theatre Ensemble, centering marginalized identities and breaking the boundaries of realism, who you may know from Every Pretty Thing, and Ritual Treatment. Recently she has designed lights at Portland Center Stage for The Light, and worked as an Assistant Lighting Designer to Marika Kent at PCS’s Sweeney Todd, Gem of the Ocean and Choir Boy. She has designed the lights for Bag and Baggage’s Troy USA and The Tempest, Passinart’s A Song for Coretta, and God’s Favorite, Salt and Sage’s Mimetic Desire, Tears and Glitter, No More Candy, Holy Name and Henriad, TAC’s Core Values, FUSE’s Our Town, American Girl, Pursuit of Happiness, and Great White Gives It Up, Stumptown’s Legally Blonde, OCT’s The Mad Ones, From the Ground Up’s FAQ, You Can’t Be Serious and Rhythm and Autism, Crave’s Our Dear Dead Drug Lord and Ashland, Portland Revels + PHAME’s Revelation Coffee, Lewis and Clark’s Henry IV Part 1, Hand2Mouth’s Banned, What Brings You Here and Memento Mori, Profile’s Reggie Hoops, and ART’s True Story. As a theatre maker, playwright, director, deviser, and choreographer, her work centers the intersectionality of identities as a neurodivergent, bisexual Puerto Rican woman, and prominently features themes of mental illness and trauma, with surrealist or magical realist motifs.