…..the endeavor’s adventure and novelty is stratospheric in its effectiveness. This is a theatrical event with uncommon imagination in its telling, riveting performances, hi-tech design, and awash with love for the power that only live theater can present. Under Sophia Watt’s whiplash direction, The George Theater crackles with the electric hum of physical theater at its best.

Review of Crime and Punishment By D.L GROOVER, HOUSTON PRESS

Watt, who serves as associate artistic director at Rec Room Arts, has become the go-to director for cool, alternatively staged new plays, including Dance Nation, The Wolves, The Oldest Boy, What the Constitution Means to Me, and Heroes of the Fourth Turning. Thinking through how to shape the space to serve a play with a selected audience, Watt is precisely tuned into the style each show needs.

Six Theater Workers You Should Know, by Jessica Goldman, American Theater

What a magnificent production this is – magical, transformational, immensely emotional, witty, charming, ………..Rec Room’s superlative production, under Matt Hune and Sophia Watt’s knife-edge and perpetual-mobile direction.. is one of Houston’s grandest shows.

REVIEW OF "ANGELS IN AMERICA" BY D.L GROOVER

“These exceptional directors are going to change the face of the American theatre, of that I’ve no doubt,” says the Drama League's executive artistic director Gabriel Stelian-Shanks.”

Drama League Welcomes 12 New Directing Fellows by Olivia Clement, Playbill

Ultimately, Watt is an actor’s director. It's abundantly clear that her cast trusts her, and in turn, she steers that trust into the best performances we’ve seen from these talents. So rich is her talent that we couldn’t pick just one of her efforts to award this year. Double dynamite direction isn’t just great alliteration here; it’s a well-deserved tip of the hat to Watt this season.

Best Director of a Play, Houston Theater Awards, Houston Press

Directed with a strong hand by Sophia Watt, Constitution, like its age-old namesake, lives and breathes.

Review of “What The Constitution Means to Me” by D.L Groover, Houston Press

“Sophia Watt directing at the top of her game”

Review of “Heroes Of The Fourth Turning” by Jessica Goldman, Houston PRess

“Director Sophia Watt navigates the emotion of Ruhl’s play with an almost choreographic eye. Watt’s approach is sophisticated and carefully restrained when necessary, as well as efficient. Watt also shows a way with the actors, who all shine in their performances.”

Review of “The Oldest Boy” by Natalie De La Garza, Houston Press

A final nod must go to director Sophia Watt for the perfect harmony she creates from a cast that we’ve neither seen together on a stage before nor imagined previously. We have Houston powerhouse talent, up and coming exciting performers and actors we adore and wish we saw more of. Under Watt’s assured hand, this cast has both the energy of a first time outing and the ease of regular colleagues.

The result is pure magic.

Review of "The Effect" by Jessica Goldman, Houston Press