Michael Ronca

Michael Ronca (he/they) is an actor, writer, director and teaching artist based in NYC and the Greater Philadelphia area. Voted “Biggest Day Brightener” in high school, Michael is an extrovert always looking to meet new collaborators. His first form of live theatre was going to local professional-wrestling at a in the back of a farmer’s market. He later discovered Les Misérables and Stephen Sondheim, and has never returned to that farmer’s market since.

When it comes to writing, Michael is especially intrigued by stories that reveal how seemingly benign interactions can give rise to more profound cultural issues. He also has a passion for sports and wants to interrogate the ways they reflect and shape culture. When he’s not writing, Michael enjoys watching Survivor, playing tabletop...

Michael Ronca (he/they) is an actor, writer, director and teaching artist based in NYC and the Greater Philadelphia area. Voted “Biggest Day Brightener” in high school, Michael is an extrovert always looking to meet new collaborators. His first form of live theatre was going to local professional-wrestling at a in the back of a farmer’s market. He later discovered Les Misérables and Stephen Sondheim, and has never returned to that farmer’s market since.

When it comes to writing, Michael is especially intrigued by stories that reveal how seemingly benign interactions can give rise to more profound cultural issues. He also has a passion for sports and wants to interrogate the ways they reflect and shape culture. When he’s not writing, Michael enjoys watching Survivor, playing tabletop board games and listening to way too much musical theatre (don’t ask him about his Spotify wrapped please).

As an actor: Off-Broadway: Ode to the Wasp Woman (Swing), Amélie (Dufayel), Sprawl (Ricky/Swing), Off-Off Broadway: Assassins (John Wilkes Booth), Matilda (Miss Trunchbull). Regional: Assassins (Arden Theatre Company). As a writer: Sprawl (National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, SoHo Playhouse), Poser (Nashville Film Festival Finalist), Jobber (Blacklist Top List 2024, Screencraft Drama Competition Semi-Finalist). As a director: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Facetime Theatre), Something Rotten (TSSYT), Nine Muses Lab Fellow. Member of the Dramatist Guild. BFA Drama and Dramatic Writing, NYU Tisch. MFA Playwriting Columbia University. @roncasaurus

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Scripts

Infallible

by Michael Ronca

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama

A new preacher at a bible-belt megachurch gives a sermon that a well-known politician is the anti-Christ.

A new preacher at a bible-belt megachurch gives a sermon that a well-known politician is the anti-Christ.

Live the Fourth

by Michael Ronca

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama

A small group of catholic school seniors find their Kairos retreat taking a turn for the disastrous when an unwilling student is reconnected with a no-contact parent in the name of forgiveness, forcing the group to face the true nature of their religious education and the motivations behind their faith

A small group of catholic school seniors find their Kairos retreat taking a turn for the disastrous when an unwilling student is reconnected with a no-contact parent in the name of forgiveness, forcing the group to face the true nature of their religious education and the motivations behind their faith

Sprawl

by Michael Ronca

2
Cast Size
9
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
movement/physical

What would you do to make weight? Throughout the span of a season, Sprawl follows how the weight of expectations put on young wrestlers manifest both physically and mentally, from the mat to the mirror.

What would you do to make weight? Throughout the span of a season, Sprawl follows how the weight of expectations put on young wrestlers manifest both physically and mentally, from the mat to the mirror.

Hail Mary

by Michael Ronca

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama

Following his promotion to first string, the only black student on a catholic football team navigates rising tensions leading up to that week's game.

Following his promotion to first string, the only black student on a catholic football team navigates rising tensions leading up to that week's game.

Help Me Out John

by Michael Ronca

Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
farce,
political

Following an election, two strangers' paths converge on the doorstep of John Hinckley Jr, the attempted presidential assassin of Ronald Reagan.

Following an election, two strangers' paths converge on the doorstep of John Hinckley Jr, the attempted presidential assassin of Ronald Reagan.

weeb shit

by Michael Ronca

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
satire

At an anime convention, longtime friends and cult anime fans Tom and Snake clash when Tom brings his new girlfriend Ivy, sparking unexpected tensions.

At an anime convention, longtime friends and cult anime fans Tom and Snake clash when Tom brings his new girlfriend Ivy, sparking unexpected tensions.

Dans Le Feu

by Michael Ronca

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
melodrama,
political

Jacques and Maryse have a conversation over tea as the French Revolution begins to gain traction outside their window.

Jacques and Maryse have a conversation over tea as the French Revolution begins to gain traction outside their window.