Christopher Soucy

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

Dr. Primrose messes with forces he does not understand.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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28 days later… just trying to keep my head above water!

Jack the Ripper stalks his 6th victim. Or is it the other way around?

Blech... wanted to take a shower after writing this one. Read at your own risk! Trigger warnings - all of them (except animals, no animal cruelty)

day 12 prompt 28 plays later

Musical day 11 28 plays later

Day 10 28 plays later

A soldier's story in the style of Japanese Noh theater. Prompt 8 28 Plays Later

These are all weird. Day 8 28 days later

prompt 7 28 plays later

I don't know... something...

Some riddles are better left unsolved.

A strange woman approaches a man in a park with an outlandish claim.

MONOLOGUE
A Korean-American man thinks about his early influences.

a one time only production

A chance meeting in a park

finger camera, cursed cell phone on the thrid floor landing with a demon

Halloween Bake Off

Godot is running late, but he is also hungry.

Pat meets Santa... Pre-Santa

A curious ritual is taking place at a nearby megachurch.

Pat meets the Phantom of a local community theater...

Pat meets a bride with cold feet. Very cold feet.

Pat the exterminator meets a variety of creatures while working the job.

Pat meets a scientist determined to become invisible.

An air traffic control tower is startled by an unexpected flight

Pat meets someone who encountered the creature from the Black Lagoon

Pat encounters a mummy.

Business people talking business… Buiness!

Business people talking business… Buiness!

Sam meets a strange man who claims to know the future.

Lila faces off with a slasher, Murray.

3 short plays

Monologue from a tired detective

Meeting people is hard

William Mumler was put on trial for fraud for selling "ghost photography ." PT Barnum testified against him. This is a short play about a fictional encounter between the two.

Logan eats a sandwich and contemplates a family tradition.

Monologue

Tim tells a ghost story

in space, no one can help you not be bored.

Murray wants to get rid of his treadmill

A small sheriff's office in Maine gets a surprise visit on the night that a truck carrying 15 million bees overturns on an isolated rural road.

Sam just got a job writing for a dubious pharmaceutical company.

Cultists face the dilemmas of modern-day culting.

Based on a submission opp that requested plays that dealt with the following:
Adopting/fostering dogs; Amusement parks; Babysitters from heaven; Babysitters from hell; Beatles songs; Buddy Holly; Colors (especially orange); Cookies; Cooking shows; Dancers, gymnasts, or cheerleaders; Denver International Airport (DIA); Fandom; Fruits; Grocery store meetings; Hot air balloons; How Hamlet COULD have ended; Live theatre vs. cinema; Mail order brides; Newly discovered books of the Bible; Pet owners; Powerful women; Robots; Rock paper scissors; Rubik's cube; Senior citizens in love; Skiing joys and mishaps; Snow sports and vacations; Snowmen; Soap operas; Talking cats explain their perspective on life; Thrill rides (motorcycles, sky diving, hang gliding, etc.); Utopias; Video games; and Weird keepsakes.

An urban legend has destroyed Scott’s family. He hunts for the answer.

What happens between the killings in slasher movies?