Zack Peercy

Zack Peercy is a disabled playwright based in Chicago. He is an ensemble member at The Factory Theater, where he serves as their Literary Manager. His plays include KUBRICKIAN (Factory Theater), MUFFED (2025 Helen Hayes Recommended), HARD-BOILED EGGNOG: A CHRISTMAS NOIR (YouthPLAYS), MUTED. (Red Theatre), IN AN INSTANT (Unheard Of Company), THAT'S FUCKED UP (Three Brothers Theatre), and others.
Zack's writing is all over the map, but he likes to say all of his plays are about people struggling to say, "I'm Sorry And I Love You." Friends, loved ones, and contemporaries often just describe his work as "weird."

Zack Peercy is a disabled playwright based in Chicago. He is an ensemble member at The Factory Theater, where he serves as their Literary Manager. His plays include KUBRICKIAN (Factory Theater), MUFFED (2025 Helen Hayes Recommended), HARD-BOILED EGGNOG: A CHRISTMAS NOIR (YouthPLAYS), MUTED. (Red Theatre), IN AN INSTANT (Unheard Of Company), THAT'S FUCKED UP (Three Brothers Theatre), and others.
Zack's writing is all over the map, but he likes to say all of his plays are about people struggling to say, "I'm Sorry And I Love You." Friends, loved ones, and contemporaries often just describe his work as "weird."

Scripts

FIONA

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: FIONA is the performance of a lifetime. What begins as the story of a final performance of a show about 25 letters found in a thrift shop all addressed to "Fiona", the play soon spirals into an examination of the power of belief, the weight of a legacy, and the anxiety of becoming forgotten.

FULL LENGTH: FIONA is the performance of a lifetime. What begins as the story of a final performance of a show about 25 letters found in a thrift shop all addressed to "Fiona", the play soon spirals into an examination of the power of belief, the weight of a legacy, and the anxiety of becoming forgotten.

Mark Brown Is A Big Chicken

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: Mark Brown has started middle school and stopped taking his eye drops. When an inexperienced Fairy Guardian tries to teach Mark a lesson by turning him into a Big Chicken, he’ll need help from his not-friend Emily to learn about taking care of yourself and not being ashamed of being disabled.

FULL LENGTH: Mark Brown has started middle school and stopped taking his eye drops. When an inexperienced Fairy Guardian tries to teach Mark a lesson by turning him into a Big Chicken, he’ll need help from his not-friend Emily to learn about taking care of yourself and not being ashamed of being disabled.

The Meaningful Action Theatre Company Presents A Workshop Reading Of "Muffed: A Recounting Of Farmington, Maine's 43rd Annual Chester Greenwood Day Devised By The Members Of The Meaningful Action Theatre Company"

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: Join eight well-intentioned, but scattered, actors as they present their first reading of a new documentary theatre piece detailing the chaotic lead-up to one small town's annual celebration of the inventor of the earmuff. Helen Hayes Recommended (Prologue Theatre 2025), Chicago Reader Recommended (Factory Theater 2025). Scripts available for purchase and licensing at 1319 Press!

FULL LENGTH: Join eight well-intentioned, but scattered, actors as they present their first reading of a new documentary theatre piece detailing the chaotic lead-up to one small town's annual celebration of the inventor of the earmuff. Helen Hayes Recommended (Prologue Theatre 2025), Chicago Reader Recommended (Factory Theater 2025). Scripts available for purchase and licensing at 1319 Press!

Essential Starlite

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH:[available upon request] Marcus Monroe has glaucoma and the ability to shoot lasers out of his eyes. He tries to avoid his past of government-sponsored heroics by living in the seclusion of a basement apartment in the suburbs, but he's thrust back into the world of Extraordinary Individuals when he meets Ameka Anderson, a young woman on the verge of a discovery that could save the world. An expansive...

FULL LENGTH:[available upon request] Marcus Monroe has glaucoma and the ability to shoot lasers out of his eyes. He tries to avoid his past of government-sponsored heroics by living in the seclusion of a basement apartment in the suburbs, but he's thrust back into the world of Extraordinary Individuals when he meets Ameka Anderson, a young woman on the verge of a discovery that could save the world. An expansive comic-inspired universe full of past exes, repressed trauma, and an ableist society awaits Marcus. He can't avoid the heroic spotlight forever.

Hard-Boiled Eggnog: A Christmas Noir

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: An aspiring elf detective named Jangle gets his big break when Santa is found murdered just days before Christmas. In order to solve this case, Jangle will have to confront eternal beings, secret friendships, seedy cocoa bars, and the loss of his brother Jingle. Scripts available for purchase and licensing from YouthPLAYS!

FULL LENGTH: An aspiring elf detective named Jangle gets his big break when Santa is found murdered just days before Christmas. In order to solve this case, Jangle will have to confront eternal beings, secret friendships, seedy cocoa bars, and the loss of his brother Jingle. Scripts available for purchase and licensing from YouthPLAYS!

Kubrickian

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: Trapped in a white space, three men have a limited time to use their vocal cords before they're forcibly removed by their unseen captor. So, why is it that all they talk about is acclaimed film director Stanley Kubrick?

FULL LENGTH: Trapped in a white space, three men have a limited time to use their vocal cords before they're forcibly removed by their unseen captor. So, why is it that all they talk about is acclaimed film director Stanley Kubrick?

That's Fucked Up

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: Four college students at their monthly meeting of a truth-circle confessional struggle to navigate the honesty of meaningful relationships. This "real time" 100-minute show explores 21st century relationships and the impact technology has on them. It's quiet, it's casual, and it's pretty fucked up.

FULL LENGTH: Four college students at their monthly meeting of a truth-circle confessional struggle to navigate the honesty of meaningful relationships. This "real time" 100-minute show explores 21st century relationships and the impact technology has on them. It's quiet, it's casual, and it's pretty fucked up.

Greetings From Sadsville

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

ONE ACT: Two friends struggle to stay on the same page in a diner in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Part two of an ongoing saga of one-act plays written every six years called "Greetings".

ONE ACT: Two friends struggle to stay on the same page in a diner in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Part two of an ongoing saga of one-act plays written every six years called "Greetings".

In An Instant: A Digital Play

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

ONE ACT: On a long distance solo voyage to the edge of the solar system, Barbara starts to lose track of time (literally). This is a play about isolation, missing your family, and the bittersweet taste of Following Your Dreams. Y'know, like a metaphor for a time we're living in or something...

ONE ACT: On a long distance solo voyage to the edge of the solar system, Barbara starts to lose track of time (literally). This is a play about isolation, missing your family, and the bittersweet taste of Following Your Dreams. Y'know, like a metaphor for a time we're living in or something...

Muted.

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

ONE ACT: Over the course of a year, Sid, a college sophomore, learns to deal with Chelsea, a ghost of a former middle school acquaintance. Published script available from Bottlecap Press.

ONE ACT: Over the course of a year, Sid, a college sophomore, learns to deal with Chelsea, a ghost of a former middle school acquaintance. Published script available from Bottlecap Press.

Greetings From The Moon

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

ONE ACT: Two young women reconnect on a bench in a cemetery in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Part one of an ongoing saga of one-act plays written every six years called "Greetings".

ONE ACT: Two young women reconnect on a bench in a cemetery in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Part one of an ongoing saga of one-act plays written every six years called "Greetings".

Exhausted By You

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

SHORT: Written for American Blues Theater's Ripped Festival 2022, this play was inspired by the Liverpool Echo news article, "Boy, 15, accused of 'faking disability' by man who kicked his crutches".

SHORT: Written for American Blues Theater's Ripped Festival 2022, this play was inspired by the Liverpool Echo news article, "Boy, 15, accused of 'faking disability' by man who kicked his crutches".

Life's Worth

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

SHORT: Ari returns to their father's apartment to pack up after the funeral in this ten minute scene.

SHORT: Ari returns to their father's apartment to pack up after the funeral in this ten minute scene.

Smoke Break

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

SHORT: Five minute break to smoke down by the river.
Audio version available under "Music".

SHORT: Five minute break to smoke down by the river.
Audio version available under "Music".

The Portrait From The Artist Who Was An Idiot

by Zack Peercy

Synopsis

SHORT: A family-friendly meta-comedy about a "starving artist" and his wife inviting over their recently-millionaired friends to show off the artist's latest creation: a wall-length portrait of an audience.

SHORT: A family-friendly meta-comedy about a "starving artist" and his wife inviting over their recently-millionaired friends to show off the artist's latest creation: a wall-length portrait of an audience.