Christopher Soucy

Dammit, Scott. I have actual work to do!

A murder most foul, a stalwart detective, a group of suspects. Or is it?

MONOLOGUE
We're all in the same boat. Aren't we?

Some secrets should remain secret.

An imprisoned woman recounts her experience

Spying is not what it used to be.

Roger's ex-wife confronts him about his late-night activities.

Penny and Jackie learn that not everything is relatable.

Gwen and Bill go camping at the site of a brutal massacre.

Two enemies confront one another.

Playwright's Delight Prompt

A supposition on the conversation between Mark Twain and Bram Stoker when they met at a pub in London in 1907.

Facing Feb prompt 28

Why the hell am I doing this?

Playwright's Delight prompt 38

Sam has something to say about the cutesy sign denying him access to a bathroom.

Playwright's Delight prompt 37

Agnes doesn't have long. But she intends to make the most of the time she has.

Playwright's Delight prompt 36

Desperate times call for desperate measures

Playwright's Delight prompt 35

Thanksgiving toasts are hard

Playwright's Delight prompt 34

Emily tries to get an unruly group to behave

Playwright's Delight prompt 33

Victor and Igor have a workplace confrontation

Playwright's Delight prompt 32

Tabitha gets a late night visitor

Facinf Feb prompt 27

Teresa faces her monster

Playwright's Delight prompt 31

Trains have interesting lives... sort of

Playwright's Delight prompt 30

Surfer superstition

Playwright's Delight prompt 29

The joys of owning a puppy... or five

Playwright's Delight prompt 28

Tom regales us with life before

Playwright's Delight prompt 27

Three criminals come face to face with their worst nightmare.

Facing Feb prompt 26

A whistle-blower just wants to do what's right.

Facing Feb prompt 25

A couple have a heart to heart

Facing Feb prompt 24

A ritual hits a snag

Facing Feb prompt 23

An executioner visits his next victim.

Facing February prompt 22

An EMT remembers their first DOA

Plauwright's Delight prompt 26

Janet is leaving Brad for a good reason.

Playwright's Delight Prompt 25

Jeb remembers his dog.

MONOLOGUE

Playwright's Delight prompt 24

Patty hates her position.

Playwright's Delight prompt 23

There's a madman, or woman, throwing acid on people.

Facing Feb prompt 21

Lovecraft meets with a magazine publisher.

Playwright's Delight prompt 22

Kids in the hall trade stories of why they are in trouble.

Facing February prompt 20

hot coffee is best coffee

Playwright's Delight prompt 21

Sally must defend her boundaries

Facing Feb prompt 19

Kim gets a tough request

Facing Feb prompt 18

Dorian Gray has impulse control issues.

Facing February prompt 17

Father and child watch "old" movies.

Facing February prompt #16

Songstress Salem meets a fan.

PLAYWRIGHT'S DELIGHT PROMPT #20

Craig saves the planet... with a few exceptions.

PLAYWIGHT'S DELIGHT PROMPT #19

An astronaut recollects their training

PLAYWRIGHT'S DELIGHT PROMPT #18

My hurt feelings.

PLAYWRIGHT'S DELIGHT PROMPT #17

Two soldiers are holed up.
(based on a true story.)

FACING FEBRUARY PROMPT #15

A doctor works feverishly to reanimate a corpse.

FACING FEBRUARY PROMPT #14

Witches have a revelation about demons.

Facing February prompt #13 4 CHARACTERS, PLASTIC SNAKE, POWERLESSNESS

a child preacher has a heart to heart with his father

Facing February prompt #12

A seance has unexpected results

PLAYWRIGHT'S DELIGHT PROMPT #16

Uh.... what?

PLAYWRIGHT'S DELIGHT PROMPT #15

Some rules for life

playwright's delight prompt #14

Ned needs support.

FACING FEBRUARY PROMPT #11

A prisoner reflects

PLAYWRIGHT'S DELIGHT PROMPT #13

Maggie has a talk with her sour dough starter

PLAYWRIGHT'S DELIGHT PROMPT #12

An ad for a peculiar furniture store

PLAYWRIGHT'S DELIGHT PROMPT #11

Hoppo the clown has some thoughts

PLAYWRIGHT'S DELIGHT PROMPT #10

MONOLOGUE
Susan is having a bad day at work... or is she?

PLAYWRIGHT'S DELIGHT PROMPT #9

MONOLOGUE

Anton has a stick of gum.

PLAYWRIGHT'S DELIGHT PROMPT #8

A Victorian couple enjoy Christmas morning

Facing February prompt #10

Jack works up the courage to embrace love.

Facing February prompt #9

Josh and Kim have an idea for a new business.

Facing February prompt #8

Adam "accidentally" pressed the button.

Facing February 2026 prompt #7

A contractor makes a deal

The 2026 Playwright's Thriving Playwright's Delight title suggestion #7

John and Chris have a conversation

Playwright's Delight 2026 prompt

How did we get here?

Facing February prompt #6

A Theodore Roosevelt cosplay group have a meeting.

The 2026 Playwright's Thriving Playwright's Delight title suggestion #6

Tiffany is desperate for a sign from her dead mother.

Facing February prompt #5

A hard-boiled detective meets his match.

ALTERNATE 2026 Playwright's Thriving Playwright's Delight title prompt

Treasure hunting after the world ends.

The 2026 Playwright's Thriving Playwright's Delight title suggestion #5

Sometimes, even final girls need a pep talk.

The 2026 Playwright's Thriving Playwright's Delight title suggestion #4

Sometimes protests aren't enough

The 2026 Playwright's Thriving Playwright's Delight title suggestion #3

A man ponders tasty religions

Facing February prompt #4

Wither's calls out Fogerty.

The 2026 Playwright's Thriving Playwright's Delight title suggestion #2

one fish, two fish, don't know what to do fish

The 2026 Playwright's Thriving Playwright's Delight title suggestion #1

Bad dreams connect two lovers to a past life.

The 2026 Playwright's Thriving Playwright's Delight title prompt

A trip to the convenience store turns deadly for a group of customers.

Facing February prompt 3

Mittens slips out for a late night meeting.

Facing February prompt 2

A medical crisis calls an ancient relative to comfort a husband in distress.

Facing February prompt 1

IT'S NOT A PYRAMID SCHEME

Written for the 2026 Santa Title Exchange for the Playwrights Thriving group.

An assassin and her target have a conversation

Written for the 2026 Santa Title Exchange for the Playwrights Thriving group.

Sam and Lauren unlock a new level of intimacy

Written for the 2026 Santa Title Exchange for the Playwrights Thriving group.

Santa throws a Holiday Party

Written for the 2026 Santa Title Exchange for the Playwrights Thriving group.

Noir Christmas

Written for the 2026 Santa Title Exchange for the Playwrights Thriving group.

Pushy Advent Calendars are pushy.

Secret Santa Title Exchange Playwrights Thriving

4 characters looking for an author

Secret Santa Title Exchange Playwrights Thriving

first annual holiday party at a paranormal museum

Secret Santa Title Exchange Playwrights Thriving

Rick is throwing an office party

Secret Santa Title Exchange Playwrights Thriving

A serial killer is loose in a small Oregon town.

Written for FRIGHTFULLY INSPIRED CHALLENGE in the PLAYWRIGHT'S THRIVING GROUP 2025
Inspiration source: PSYCHO

Charlie Sierra lands a job as an assistant to a private investigator in Savannah, Georgia.

A family member returns from a long absence, bringing terror with them.

two scientists discuss dark matter

Frank and Nico discuss the mysterious Lola

Charlie is struggling with grief

A gun reflects on recent events.

Learning new steps in a future without limit

Survival of the fittest

preparing for a journey

A veteran deals with his guilt.

A femme fatale recounts her latest misadventure.

Adventurers Tab and Mar face their most harrowing adversary.

MONOLOGUE Frank talks about his latest client

An old archeologist confronts one of his old students.

Will and Mallory make a discovery while visiting the Greek isles.

Frank Ellis, private eye, hunts for the person responsible for an abduction.

A day in my life

Charlie and Matt are in trouble.

A woman held captive by a killer with delusions of the devil.

Barry desperately tries to get his client out of trouble.

Trill has a secret that Bix desperately wants to know.

Leonard must address the mayor’s mishap.

What is there was more to Ophelia’s story?

Greg and Pam get away from their hectic lives

Monologue. Paul reflects on bing a dad.

A president wakes up after 30 years of being cryogenically frozen

A soldier reminisces about who saved his life in combat.

Jill recounts her recent vacation in India.

Beauty reminisces about meeting Beast.

A demon meets an angel.

Jenna is about to learn what her parents have sacrificed for her happiness.

Prompt 2 Facing February: Coming of Age

A plan for the most mysterious of holiday icons.

Waiting at the first crossroads south of cemetery, you never know who you might meet.

Marge is heartbroken about the election and wants to go on the warpath.

Dr. Primrose messes with forces he does not understand.

PLAYWRIGHT'S THRIVING: SECRET SANTA TITLE EXCHANGE

Debbie is drowning her sorrows in a pastry.

PLAYWRIGHT'S THRIVING: SECRET SANTA TITLE EXCHANGE

A woman wishes things were different

Rick is stepping out on his wife with Michele, but the wife has a trick up her sleeve.

Regina faces the ghosts that have haunted her all her life.

An inspector calls upon a suspect in a most unusual case.

William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes died on the very same day. This is a fanciful meeting that takes place between this world and the next.

A young woman faces the challenge of her name.

Charlie thinks there’s a monster in their bedroom.

Mark wants to win the neighborhood BBQ contest. But he has more secrets than just what's in his sauce.

A small theater company attempts to produce a cursed play.

Selected for a staged reading at the Valdez Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska, June 13, 2024.

FULL LENGTH

in a dystopian future, being left-handed is punishable by death.

FULL LENGTH
In an alternate past, airships waged warfare on behalf of the nations that had the technology. This is the story of Her Majesty's Airship Courage and how it came to be a privateer vessel.

FULL LENGTH
Five friends camping in the Appalachian mountains learn that the stories folk tell are more than superstition.

FULL LENGTH
An artificial co-worker faces the dilemma of being just shy of human.

Super spy Phillip Redshaw may have finally met his match. Now if he can just shut up.

A fairy tale told by a commedia dell'arte troup.

Abby is in an in-between place

Rick and Annie go on an adventure after their 30 year high school reunion.

Monica speaks to the inhabitant of her home.

MONOLOGUE

Reggie isn't sure he can come to the ball game after an accident

A proud dad must face the consequences.

public transportation is a killer

Meredith seeks justice from Phil.

Memories and regrets unfold over the course of thirty years.

A headstrong princess investigates rumors of a monster killing subjects in her kingdom. The journey reveals to her hard truths and the mysterious question of what a sword really is.

A professor brings a gifted medium to a haunted house to capture evidence of the supernatural.

a shooter is interrogated by two detectives.

Stephen has a plan for the future. Felicia has a plan for Stephen's future.

a 50s educational film about the wonders of the future.

When a helpful elf tries to make a lasting partner for Santa, lessons about life, love, and doll anatomy are learned.

Secret Santa 2023

Vicky is looking to establish a new Christmastime icon.

Mrs. Claus has an idea for the future of Christmas... and all mankind.

Santa has been hiding an important truth from the elves.

it's hard to say goodbye

Ten Minutes
A look at one of history's most overlooked conflicts.

6 PAGES
Santa is caught on Christmas eve

FULL LENGTH
An antiques dealer in Savannah, Georgia gets the full Scrooge experience.

Pat encounters Krampus in the woods.

Sewing something together, Victory and Juniper, an exterminator, Russian nesting dolls that are not Russian.

Halloween Bake Off

Pat the exterminator runs into a vampire in the basement of the church.

The further adventures of Pat the exterminator. Wolfman wants a treat. Seems pretty self explanatory...

SHORT PLAY
All theaters are haunted.

7 PAGES
Terrible weapons got terrible wars

5 PAGES
After a regrettable night, Dana feels stuck with Simon

Gerald brings his new girlfriend to his wife's grave.

Scott Sickles made me do it.

Red Eagle and Carson meet on the edge of the Wild West.

war is hell.
babies are tasty.

WARNING: babies get eaten in this play.

FULL LENGTH When an unknown woman disrupts a funeral with an outburst of emotions the grieving family is caught entirely off guard. But when she shows up at the family’s home, the mystery surrounding her deepens.

2022 Runner-Up VetRep Full-Length Playwriting Competition

Sherlock Holmes is pulled out of retirement to investigate a case that eluded the super sleuth years earlier. The baffling case of the Darling children of Kensington Park who went missing one night and inexplicably returned some time later with a half dozen other children. To Sherlock’s dismay, the children could only talk of pirates, fairies, and a peculiar flying boy named Peter Pan. IN THREE EPISODES

FULL-LENGTH STAGE COMBAT A black op mission goes awry when the operatives begin to question what their mission is really about.

FULL LENGTH When ALEX tells his lifelong friends JUDE and JESSIE that he has taken on a controversial case, old secrets and long-suffering outrages surface.

FULL-LENGTH A fool struggles to get back home after a disastrous turn in the army. Feste, an accidental hero, gets word that his former master has died and vows to return home to Illyria. Along the way he encounters Touchstone living in the wilderness with his wife, Lear's clown, who taught him everything he knows about fooling, and King Trinculo who is bewildered by his unprecedented authority.

UPDATED 12/03/2022
A play in verse. The events that occurred between the 4th and 5th acts of CYRANO DE BERGERAC. Cyrano takes on a fencing student who becomes like a son to him.

70-90 minute FULL LENGTH
Ranzo struggles to assert nonsense in a world that will not allow it.

Professional staged reading by VetRep Theater in September 2024

FULL LENGTH Jason and Kate find themselves consumed by the notion of casual immortality. Their newfound philosophy is much to the dismay of friends and family.

Selected for a staged reading by Pumphouse Players in 2023

Anthology of the 31 plays in 31 days series of shorts about everyone's favorite fictional university.

20 years later, the gang gets together

31 of 31

Reggie has an unlikely guest in the sanitarium.

30 of 31

Reggie learns how to change the world.

29 of 31

Shannon deals with a deadly infection

28 of 31

Reggie and Shannon are challenged to fight.

27 of 31

Reggie gets a visit from a mysterious stranger

26 of 31

Reggie goes to ancient ruins in Vermont.

25 of 31

Mercy contemplates love as a vampire.

24 of 31

Shannon and Reggie decide to keep a secret.

23 of 31

Reggie faces an existential crisis with his new roommate.

22 of 31

Maurie encounters a New England legend.

21 of 31

Reggie goes home and learns something alarming about his school.

20 of 31

Reggie duels in a championship bout.

19 of 31

Scott receives a much anticipated letter in the mail.

18 of 31

Shannon exhibits her sculpture

17 of 31

Silas encounters a Lovecraftian horror

16 of 31

Reggie turns to his friend Max after a disturbing event.

15 of 31

Reggie and Shannon try to have a nice afternoon in the park.

14 of 31

Max faces off with Legrasse, the detective he hired.

13 of 31

Max tries to help Reggie with research.

12 of 31

Reggie must attend mandatory counseling after his roommate meets with a tragic end.

11 of 31

Reggie's new roommate is in trouble.

10 of 31

Three friends bond over a delicacy.

9 of 31

Reggie returns from winter break to learn he has been reassigned to a new dorm room.

8 of 31

Reggie gets some advice

7 of 31

Restless night in the dorms.

6 of 31

Dean Pickman calls two students in to discuss the pitfalls of friendship at Miskatonic University.

5 of 31

Reggie, the only black student at Miskatonic University, meets Shannon, the only Asian student at Miskatonic University.

4 of 31

Max is called in to meet his Music Professor Mr. Zann.

3 of 31

Reggie's first day on the Miskatonic University's fencing team.

Play 2 of 31

Max meets his dormmate at Miskatonic University, a black student named Reggie.

1 0f 31 plays in August 2023

The financial aid office at Miskatonic University is a no-nonsense place.

Four friends at Miskatonic University decide to try an odd extracurricular activity.

MONOLOGUE Dr. L. C. Burton shares notes taken during odd encounters at a curse ivy league school.

Monologue
Shelby speaks at MU's graduation

MONOLOGUE
Welcome to Miskatonic University. Learn how it got it's nickname, Spooky U

SHORT An interview with the most approachable of the Elder Gods.

A small gallery in Vienna in 1913. A chance meeting between two extraordinary people.

MONOLOGUE
Simon learns about his peculiar family history

10 Minute Play
Frankenstein, birth, rebirth, and a sneaking suspicion that all is not well.

A boxer tries to hold on to more than just his title

SHORT

How do you stop a never-ending cycle of destruction and rebirth? Mitchel knows. But is it enough to save us all?

Captain Hook and Smee ponder their place in the universe.

Monologue

BILLY, an Asian American, tries to trace the root of his issues with his race.

Monologue
Do we love the animal, or do we love what we think about them?

monologue
A tiger is a tiger.

10 minute play
An office worker must contend with their callousness.

Characters can be portrayed by any adult age/gender/ethnicity

5 minute play
A man comes face to face with an unexpected mediator trying to settle a dispute.

10 minute play

Simon and Maggie have a heart-to-heart on the eve of a planned act of violence,

15 minute play
A couple finds a mysterious box in their apartment.

10 MINUTE PLAY
an interview with a young man being committed to a mental health facility.

FULL LENGTH
MUSICAL(ish)
Being a geek I wrote this geeky musical. A bar where time travelers wind up. A geeky homage to a genre that has many a twist and turn.

FULL LENGTH A musical trip through the haunted history of Savannah

Edgar Allan Poe disappeared four days before his death. In the cloud of mystery surrounding these days Poe's most famous creations come to torment and hunt him.

FULL LENGTH
CONTENT WARNING: MATURE
Inspector Marius has been charged with following and reporting the crimes of the Marquis De Sade. During the course of his investigation he learns more about himself, life, and the curious nature of freedom.

MONOLOGUE
Simon is a serial killer facing execution in one day. He wants to make it clear why he did what he did.

A small, all-night cafe stands near the killing grounds of a supernatural slasher.

SHORT PLAY
Another tale from a lifetime of chasing ghosts.

SHORT PLAY
Based on a real encounter.

MONOLOGUE
Reggie is a professor teaching a class on influential couples throughout history.

15-minute play. Some loves last lifetimes.

10 minute play. A kidnapping gone wrong, or very, very right.

Mr. Z needs a job.

Some apartments come with more issues than others

MONOLOGUE A man remembers an incident that he isn't allowed to talk about.

A man struggles with a future he isn't prepared for

MONOLOGUE
A Korean American man recalls his first experience with martial arts.

SHORT RADIO DRAMA Hard boiled private eye, Dirk Savagewood takes on a new client and whole lot of trouble.

MONOLOGUE Jessie reflects on her relationship with her husband and the secret she's kept from him.

MONOLOGUE Alex wrestles with his obsession with winning.

MONOLOGUE Jude ponders the nature of his long embattled relationship with his wife.

MONOLOGUE a lawyer lays down his case against the United States government.

10 MINUTE PLAY When a mishap in a lab leads to unfortunate results, the administrators must contain the threat and maintain calm.

MONOLOGUE A superhero takes a moment to assess his life.

MONOLOGUE The nefarious Doctor Disorder plans to blow up Over City.

When a man is asked to choose between two doors hiding either the lady he loves or a ferocious tiger, it is up to the man's wife to guide him to safety.

5 MINUTE PLAY Waking up in a hospital room, a young woman must explain why she attempted to swallow an apple whole.

In a world where everyone is connected no one is making connections.

When genius inventor Sebastian Mead hires a mysterious dressmaker to craft the most exquisite creation she has ever attempted, ghosts and nightmares haunt the halls of the mansion. Is Cassandra a mere dressmaker? Or does she have secrets far more dangerous than anyone could imagine?

MONOLOGUE

Helen Keller made many friends in her lifetime, but none like Mark Twain.

The last moments of a horror movie live onstage.

MONOLOGUE
The Marquis De Sade speaks to the man sent to arrest him.

Prompt 28
28 Days Later

prompt 27
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Prompt 25
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Prompt 25
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Prompt 23
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Prompt 19
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