Sophie Stevens is a theatre researcher, translator and practitioner. She is Senior Lecturer in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London, where she specialises in theatre and performance, creative-critical practice, activism and feminist translation approaches. She is a member of the Out of the Wings Collective and her translations have been presented at the Royal Court Theatre, Barons Court Theatre, Omnibus Theatre and Southwark Playhouse.
She has previously worked at the University of East Anglia, in collaboration with the British Centre for Literary Translation, and King’s College London on the AHRC-funded Language Acts and Worldmaking project. In 2025 she produced a new translation and critical introduction for The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Uruguayan Plays (Bloomsbury) which she co-edited with William Gregory. Her book Uruguayan Theatre in Translation: Theory and Practice was published by Legenda in 2022. She has also published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures and The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review.
