Sonya is currently in the writers room on Smilla’s Sense of Snow, a six part adaptation of the Peter Høeg novel for Constantin Films, and she has just written an episode of the new Disney+ live action series Nautilus. She also has various projects in development. Her first script for TV, Boomerangs, won her a place on the prestigious Channel 4 Screenwriting course and was optioned by Hat Trick. She wrote her ambitious sci-fi thriller on the course, and since then has worked in various writers rooms including Delicious Series 4, and The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters. Half-Indian and half-Irish, she was previously a journalist at BBC World, The Today Programme, and Bloomberg TV.

TV
Nautilus
1 x 60” episode – Moon Stories/Disney+

IN DEVELOPMENT
Signs – Cosmopolitan Pictures

Common Women – pilot script, drama about a group of women who meet at Greenham Common in the 80s

S.O.L.E. – science fiction conspiracy thriller

Boomerangs – relationship comedy drama

OTHER
Eat Me – episode for web series happynowwebseries.com

Missing Chapters – film script, winner (comedy) in the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards