La MaMa Presents Sophia Gutchinov’s Solo Show: Those Who Remained, May 2025

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La MaMa presented the world premiere of Those Who Remained, Sophia’s solo show at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club that was performed May 2025!

Out of the 8 show run, 5 shows were sold out!

Those Who Remained: a multimedia new one-woman play about the transformative limits of love told through indigenous ceremony, modern dating, and confronting one's Italian-Mongolian roots, from a New York voice performed and written by Sophia Gutchinov, past resident artist at La MaMa.

"Sophia Gutchinov has “it”. She truly has that star quality that makes you want to watch her. She is a dynamic, confident performer. Her opening night at The Club at La MaMa played to a full house rapt with attention." -Nicole Jesson, Theatre Beyond Broadway

If you missed it in-person, you can receive the footage link with a fully tax-deductible suggested donation of $20 or whatever you can :)

"The performance of “Those Who Remained” opens many questions about one’s roots, about acceptance and survival." -Beate Hein Bennett, NY Theatre Wire

These production photos were taken by: Sabine Lola Stock, Rani O’Brien, & Others

Gutchinov’s piece may be regarded as a “physical theatre” in that she fully utilizes verbal and physical communication tools to tell her story. Throughout the show, she moves and dances, enamoring her audience. -Yuko Kurahashi, Theatre Reviews

“While she is trained as a professional actor, she is also an activist for the AAPI movement…she has embraced the globe within herself to produce this work. Sophia…has delved deeply into her own mixed heritage…she is the very embodiment of the American immigrant experience” -Beate Hein Bennett, NY Theatre Wire

Full Program of Show

"There will come a day when you’ll be trying to figure out if you can afford to see a Sophia Gutchinov production." -Nicole Jesson, Theatre Beyond Broadway

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For this world premiere at La MaMa, collaboration with multiple artists has been essential. Her multimedia approach to theatre is invigorating. While some theatre artists’ multimedia interferes with their “stories,” Gutchinov’s multimedia enhances her story, adding what she otherwise would not be able to tell in her 70-minute performance. Working with 16 artists, including designers and musicians, Gutchinov conducted numerous workshops, rewrites, reshoots, and reconfigurations. -Yuko Kurahashi, Theatre Reviews

Keep scrolling to learn more about the development of Those Who Remained over 4 years

Placido Carbone & Giuseppe Spuria Photography

Click here to read the Backstage interview Sophia did on her solo show!

Jason F. Vasquez Photography

La MaMa Show Website here!

Sophia received a grant from LMCC, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for her one woman show, October 2024
Ellie M. Parker Photography

Click here to meet the CREATIVE TEAM

The United Nations Headquarters, General Assembly meeting The Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the United Nations, January 2024

Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, representing La MaMa, First 10 Minutes of Those Who Remained, May 2023, Photos by: Jason F Vasquez

Sophia giving a speech about her Kalmyk tribe’s history of genocide at the New York Arab Festival x Poetry Project, Saint Mark’s Church, April 2024
Lara Atallah Photography

Poetry Electric, Asian Voices for Peace and Unity, The Club at La MaMa, October 2023

“Love on Fire” at Poetry Electric, Second Sex: Beats and Texts, La MaMa April 2022

AAPI Equality Speech, City Hall, April 2021
Jason F. Vasquez Photography

“Your script is lovely and your authenticity is so admirable—every single page reveals a new layer of this beautiful story, continually heartbreaking as it is healing” -Yáya, post-disciplinary artist

Arkha Lama, one of Sophia’s paternal ancestors

Sophia’s grandfather seen here, in the documentary Americans From Djungaria in Color - Kalmyks in the Early 1960s

Sophia’s grandmother is seen here, #12, in a German deportation camp, 1947 (color corrected).

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