Sofia Insua
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AADA alumni
Born and raised in Guatemala.
GT - NYC
bio
Sofia is a latinx artist - actor, singer and composer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Born and raised in Guatemala and professionally trained in NYC at the acting conservatory The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan, Insua has performed on stage, and in front of the camera - in shows such as Law and Order and Orange is the New Black - and her compositions and sound design work has been used in various film and TV soundtracks, as well in theater (Brooklyn Center for Theater for Research and Schaubude).
Her solo music project aLex vs aLex has also been featured
in KEXP, Billboard, and Remezcla, parallel to on-going music projects, Easy Easy (2017 - presente) y ERA C (2020 - present), for which she’s lead singer and composer for.
Her work's focus is on physical and sonic ways of expression, building emotional connections to hybrid spaces; often in collaboration with Berlin based collective TFIM.
sound design + music composition
> Growing Pains by Lisa Braun (BER) Partial Soundtrack by Sofia Insua
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> The Mountain that Echoes Back (NYC) - The Brooklyn Center for Theater Research. Sound Design by Sofia Insua​​
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> The Feeling is Mutual Premiere at Schaubude (BER) - Sound Design by Sofia Insua
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> aLex vs aLex (NYC) - solo music project release.
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> DELIRIA | Composition and lead vocal performance for ERA C - released through Future Archive Recordings and used as part of the Warren Miller film “A Daymaker”’s soundtrack.
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> 5 | Composition and lead vocal performance for Easy Easy - released through Future Archive Recordings and used as part of the soundtrack to Netflix’s “Gentefied”
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artistic research
>> A Sonic Adaptation 2023
Take Heart research program
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>> I FEEL U 2023
Take Heart residency program
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>> Embrace 2021
Take Care residency program
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>> The Feeling is Mutual 2020
HAU Hebbel am Ufer residency
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** all of the above Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR
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acting
tv - film
commercial
TV - FILM
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> Law and Order - Organized Crime
(Season 5 - episodes 1 and 2)
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> Orange is the New Black
(Season 7 - episode 13)
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> Genius Loci - lead
Fashion Film Festival Milano - Selection
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COMMERCIAL
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> Maybelline
> Sephora
> McDonald's
