Steve Yockey

Steve Yockey

Steve Yockey is a Los Angeles based playwright and spectacle junkie. His published plays are available from Samuel French/Concord Theatricals. Steve holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He served as CoExecutive Producer on Supernatural and is the Creator/Showrunner of The Flight Attendant and Dead Boy Detectives, both for HBO Max.

Plays

  • Bleeding Hearts
    Sloane isn't sure why exactly her husband Timothy brought home a probably dangerous drifter with a knife, but she doesn’t like it. Of course, it's hard to focus when her wealthy neighbor keeps dropping by to steal anything not nailed down. And then things get violent. Bleeding Hearts is a breakneck, pitch black farce about the disappearing middle class & how people forget to put themselves in each others' shoes.
  • Reykjavík
    Reykjavík is a series of interconnected vignettes featuring tourists mixing with the (sometimes supernatural) Icelandic locals. We eavesdrop on the private lives of lovers, hospitality workers, party goers, and even a really handsome bird or two. This play is a glimpse into a magical, dark, and sometimes violent world where everyone is still hoping to find love and joy beneath the glow of the Northern Lights.
  • Mercury
    Three stories cross outside of Portland, OR in a pitch black comedy with an illicit affair, a couple hanging on by a thread, bears at the window, the worst curiosity shop on the west coast, and an adorable missing dog named Mr Bundles. No one's happy, people stop being nice, and blood spills. This mash up of myth, missing empathy, and "good neighbors" explores what happens when the mercury rises.
  • Pluto
    In the wake of a tragedy involving gun violence at a local college, single mother Elizabeth Miller and her withdrawn son Bailey try to jump-start their relationship across the breakfast table. But with berserker appliances, shifting astronomy, and the talkative new family dog's interruptions, Elizabeth might not be able to really "see" the person she needs to see most. FULL SCRIPT available from Samuel French, Inc.
  • The Thrush & The Woodpecker
    In this modern revenge play, Brenda Hendricks has her hands full dealing with her son Noah after he is expelled from a prestigious college and unexpectedly returns to their isolated Northern California home. When a mysterious woman arrives on their doorstep, Brenda and Noah find their world turned upside down in ways both intimate and epic.
  • Adorable Kitten Image Collapse
    After brutally trolling a woman named Ann Marie online about her cat photos, Rick is terrified to discover she's camped outside his apartment. Ready to murder him.