ABOUT
Sophie Capobianco is an interdisciplinary performance scholar working at the intersection of political theory and performance studies. Their work primarily concerns prefigurative politics, with influences spanning critical carceral studies, Black and decolonial studies, social movements, and performance art. Their scholarship broadly explores the political tactics and social worlds of grassroots social movements throughout modern U.S. history. Sophie’s Master’s Essay, “Utopia in D Yard: Prefigurative Politics and the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971,” argues for a political theory of performative prefiguration, now the central focus of their theoretical work. This essay was selected as the winner of TDR’s 2024 Student Essay Contest its publication is forthcoming in The Drama Review. Sophie is a PhD student in Culture and Performance in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles. They graduated with their M.A. in Theater and Performance Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, where they worked extensively with Prison Education Project (PEP).
Los Angeles, CA
sophiecapo [at] ucla.edu
sophieecapobianco [at] gmail.com
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