Sunny Drake

Script currently in development: please contact me if you are interested to read the draft

An unconventional family absurdly navigates their life milestones in a civilization undergoing total collapse. Set over a 30-year period, each scene takes us through a pivotal moment from their wedding vows (what can you promise when the world is tanking?) through to the "golden years". They collect surprising new members of their family throughout since it turns out navigating the apocalypse is kind of a lot.

This play is commissioned by Lucille Lortel Theatre, Caridad Svich, Artistic Director of New Play Development

Script currently in development: please contact me if you are interested to read the draft

Leaning into audience’s unquenchable thirst for this iconic story, Romeo & Jewels is a timely trans-inspired free adaptation, with a cisgender Romeo and a trans Jewels. The feuding families are reimagined to explore how trans people have been propelled onto the frontlines of the culture wars. While keeping focus on a story of potent first love, Romeo & Jewels also investigates the connection to our climate crisis. This free adaptation uses contemporary “everyday” English, with occasional use of the original text. It is for both an adult audience and a 14+ audience.

When a suburban boomer couple return home to find their queer millennial daughter, Annabel, hosting a swingers’ party to make cash, they’re forced to question the state of their marriage. Annabel, in turn, must ponder her own future when she adds a new relationship to her chosen family of polyamorous and platonic roommates. In this high-spirited sex romp, it’s not just the earth that moves, as shifting paradigms encourage new possibilities, both personal and political.

We're in a period of remarkable change: from dealing with the pandemic to housing crises to wealth inequality to climate chaos. What would it take for us to work together on these enormous challenges? EVERY LITTLE NOOKIE starts this epic question in the home, using a hilarious, scandalous and subversive romp to examine one of our most cherished sites of individualism: relationships.

This theatrical podcast is a worldwide tour for your ears - minus the carbon footprint and lost luggage. Audio dramas from 9 creative teams around the globe will entertain as well as explore our climate crisis. And maybe even what could get us out.

This is the script for episode one, written as an audio drama. For a version suitable for a live production, contact the playwright.

You can listen to the produced series at www.sunnydrake.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

A comedy about hockey, culture and relationships. Two dads and their sons are sequestered to a hockey rink dressing room to sort out an incident. Amidst a series of wild misunderstandings and ridiculous antics, these guys get to know each other and themselves a whole lot better, while redefining what it means to WIN.

The play is structured like a game of hockey: into three periods, with instant replays of key moments from different emotional points of view, and characters stepping out to commentate this high stakes game of emotions.

Adults speak children’s exact words about love, life and the big questions in this fresh verbatim work. Drawn from interviews with over 40 children, CHILD-ish delves into everything from the climate crisis to unicorns. These unflinching conversations provide grown-up audiences with surprising, hilarious and profound insights into the world and our place in it.
 
CHILD-ish is not a standard verbatim piece: the adult actors don’t pretend to be kids, they try on the words of kids, as adults. This entices grown-ups to listen anew.