Sophie Aknin is currently living out her dream.
The aspiring young actor, who graduated from Valley Christian High School in San Jose before earning a BFA in musical theatre from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2019, has scored a choice spot in the Broadway touring production of “Beetlejuice.”
It’s the national tour debut for the South Bay native, who does already have several regional theater credits (including with New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse).
Aknin is part of the ensemble in this production. Yet, she also is the understudy for several key roles — including that of the main female character Lydia (which was played by Winona Ryder in the film version and recently performed by another South Bay rising star, Isabella Esler, in this touring production).
Aknin will surely see plenty of familiar faces in the crowd as she returns home to the Bay Area with the “Beetlejuice” tour, which sets up shop, Dec. 24-29, at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco. Tickets start at $56, broadwaysf.com.