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Well over two decades ago, TheatreWorks founder Robert Kelley stopped a 7-year-old girl frolicking in the hallway of his theater and asked her to sing him something. She was performing in one of the company’s plays and he wanted to know whether she could sing too. And sing she did, for Sophie Oda was a natural.
This is one of her early memories of her time at TheatreWorks as a child actor. “I felt like I had a special relationship with Kelley and his partner Ev, they kind of just took me under their wing,” said Oda, who is now part of TheatreWorks’ “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley,” written by Bay Area playwrights Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon. […]



