Sophie Motley was Artistic Director of The Everyman, Cork from 2021 to 2024. Sophie was previously Artistic Director / CEO of Pentabus Theatre (UK), Co-Artistic Director of WillFredd Theatre and Associate Director of Rough Magic.
Previous directing work includes Werther (Irish National Opera); Letters of a Country Postman (The Everyman); The Giggler Treatment (The Ark); Here I Belong, Wolves Are Coming for You, Crossings, The Tale of Little Bevan and One Side Lies the Sea (Pentabus); Millions of Years (English National Opera); BEES!, Jockey, CARE, FOLLOW and FARM (WillFredd Theatre); Tejas Verdes and Vincent River (Prime Cut); The Sleeping Queen (Wexford Festival Opera); Everything Between Us and Plaza Suite (Rough Magic)
Dramaturg credits include Blank Out (Dutch National Opera), GATMAN! and The Book of Sand (The Holland Festival / Michel van der Aa)
Associate Director credits include The Book of Disquiet (Michel van der Aa / London Sinfonietta), Sunken Garden (ENO / Barbican / Opera de Lyon), The Last Hotel (Wide Open Opera / Landmark) and Caligula (ENO / Teatro Colon).
Sophie was Staff Director at English National Opera, Resident Assistant Director at the Abbey Theatre and Resident Stage Director for London Sinfonietta. Sophie learnt her trade as an emerging director by assisting artists such as Fiona Shaw, Deborah Warner, David Leveaux, Benedict Andrews, Yoshi Oida, Phelim McDermott, Peter Sellars and James MacDonald.