Sona writes across theater, memoir, film, television, essay, and short-form digital work. Her writing returns to memory, inherited violence, comic disruption, spiritual inquiry, and the unstable boundary between the story we receive and the story we learn to see differently.

AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf)

multimedia theatrical work, 2025

Azad Storytelling

performance text, 2021

Refuge(e), Illuminated

performance text and spatial dramaturgy, in development

Scher/AZAD

hybrid memoir in development

A book-length work tracing the inheritance of silence and violence and the long process by which a story changes the person trying to tell it, moving among family archive, personal history, fable, and contemplative practice.

Quantum Mischief

short-form digital satire in development, directed by Jared Mezzocchi

A 24-part series that turns the Karagöz puppets loose on the contradictions of contemporary life, using irreverent comedy and paradox to puncture certainty and make room for a different perception.

Three Apples Fell From Heaven

pilot

An intergenerational drama tracing an Armenian family in Aleppo across the twentieth century, where public history and private memory continually reshape one another.

The First Full Moon

feature screenplay

Against the eruption of war in Syria, a woman confronts the private history that shaped her ideas of love, family, and freedom. Selected for the 2011 Sundance/RAWI Screenwriters Lab and the 2012 Dubai Film Connection.

Toujours

short film, writing and directing debut

Official selection, 2012 Arpa International Film Festival.

“We Have Been Broken With Your Absence”

Ahval, 2019

“Osman Opened Up a New Turkey for Me”

Agos, 2017

“As Aleppo Crumbles, Its History and Its People Stand Proud”

The National, 2015