Biography
Sonya Feibert Kuhn (she/her) is a storyteller, writer, improviser, and comedy enthusiast. In addition to humor writing, she performs typewriter poetry, listening to people’s stories to inspire live poems, written on the spot. Like a true Gemini, Sonya has her hand in a lot of cookie jars but only eats the ones with chocolate chips. She won first place in a fiction contest and was an extra on Portlandia but her true claim to fame is being able to raise each eyebrow independently.
In her one-woman show, writer and improviser Sonya Feibert Kuhn explored the origin of her last name. There is a central mystery: why did her grandfather change his last name? But there are also more subtle mysteries around patriarchal lineage and the way memory is flexible, presenting a natural conflict when different memories collide. The granddaughter of a stoic Dane and a passionate Portuguese who met in Brazil, Sonya’s heritage is a clash of cultures. She staged these with wit and humor and confronts contradictions not by hiding them, but by being bold—which is what “Kuhn” means when translated into English.
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