Zack Peercy

Zack Peercy

Zack Peercy is a disabled playwright based in Chicago. He is a resident playwright at Three Brothers Theatre, where he serves as the facilitator of their Virtual Playwrights Residency, and an Artistic Associate at The Factory Theater. In 2022, he was a SPARK Resident with Filament Theatre. His play ESSENTIAL STARLITE was a 2021 O'Neill Finalist, BAPF Semi-Finalist, and Blue Ink Semi-Finalist. Other plays...
Zack Peercy is a disabled playwright based in Chicago. He is a resident playwright at Three Brothers Theatre, where he serves as the facilitator of their Virtual Playwrights Residency, and an Artistic Associate at The Factory Theater. In 2022, he was a SPARK Resident with Filament Theatre. His play ESSENTIAL STARLITE was a 2021 O'Neill Finalist, BAPF Semi-Finalist, and Blue Ink Semi-Finalist. Other plays include THAT'S FUCKED UP (Three Brothers Theatre), IN AN INSTANT (Unheard Of Company), MUTED. (Red Theatre), GREETINGS (Elgin Fringe Festival), HARD-BOILED EGGNOG: A CHRISTMAS NOIR (Blaine Community Theatre), MUFFED (Three Brothers Theatre), and others.
Zack's writing is all over the map, but a common factor seems to be characters struggling to say "I'm Sorry And I Love You."

Plays

  • FIONA
    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
    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"
    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. Happy Chester Greenwood Day!
  • Essential Starlite
    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...
    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
    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. Can he find Santa's hat in time to save Christmas? Is he strong enough to process his grief in a healthy way? Did he RSVP to Miss...
    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. Can he find Santa's hat in time to save Christmas? Is he strong enough to process his grief in a healthy way? Did he RSVP to Miss Figgy's Boxing Day Party? Answers, intrigue, and more can be found in this script!
  • Kubrickian
    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
    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
    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
    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.
    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
    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
    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
    SHORT: Ari returns to their father's apartment to pack up after the funeral in this ten minute scene.
  • Smoke Break
    SHORT: Five minute break to smoke down by the river.
    Audio version available under "Music".
  • The Portrait From The Artist Who Was An Idiot
    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.