Corey Pajka

Corey Pajka

Corey Pajka received B.A.s in Theatre Arts and English from Wilkes University. His plays include Long Distance Drunk (Maned Wolf Productions and Distilled Theatre Company) Fahrenheit IS-51 (Exit 7 Players), Valid I.D., (The University of Houston), Visible Cosmic Entities (HartBeat Ensemble Theatre), and Brief Encounters of the Third Kind (Gallery Players). Corey wrote the book for the children's theatre...
Corey Pajka received B.A.s in Theatre Arts and English from Wilkes University. His plays include Long Distance Drunk (Maned Wolf Productions and Distilled Theatre Company) Fahrenheit IS-51 (Exit 7 Players), Valid I.D., (The University of Houston), Visible Cosmic Entities (HartBeat Ensemble Theatre), and Brief Encounters of the Third Kind (Gallery Players). Corey wrote the book for the children's theatre musical Animaloopidy (based on music and lyrics by T.O. Sterrett, Weathervane Theatre). He is also the author of the radio plays The Separation, Meddling Kids, The Stand In, The (Drunk) Call of Cthulhu, My Violet Brooklyn, and others, all of which are available for free download on iTunes. A staged reading of Everyone Is An Astronaut is also available for free download through Apple Podcasts and other providers. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their Pembroke Welsh Corgi Sancho Panza.

Plays

  • Flatlands, PA by Corey Pajka
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 1 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, political
    Have you heard about this new podcast? Two men and former classmates from a small town in suburban Pennsylvania are as different as day and night. One is a rising star in the state Congress. The other is a fallen hero of the football field who has developed a debilitating heroin habit. When the former decides to pay a visit to his hometown on the campaign trail, the latter can’t help but get in the way. What...
    Have you heard about this new podcast? Two men and former classmates from a small town in suburban Pennsylvania are as different as day and night. One is a rising star in the state Congress. The other is a fallen hero of the football field who has developed a debilitating heroin habit. When the former decides to pay a visit to his hometown on the campaign trail, the latter can’t help but get in the way. What will happen when the ugly past meets the gilded present? Download and listen for yourself.
  • Everyone Is An Astronaut by Corey Pajka
    Cast: 
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    Genre: drama, period
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    Keyword: earth and space, 1980s + 4 more
    Genre: drama, period
    Keyword: earth and space, 1980s, Space Shuttle, family, drug addiction, mental illness
    In 1986, a young man obsessed with space sets his sights on Earth. What he sees is his life in ruins, and his family in fragments. He sets about trying to make things right, but when a space shuttle in Florida explodes just moments after takeoff, it’s a sign that his best laid plans are doomed to failure. The universe is indifferent, but maybe the order is in the chaos.
  • Long Distance Drunk by Corey Pajka
    Cast: 
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    Genre: drama, period
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    Keyword: Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, adult relationships + 2 more
    Genre: drama, period
    Keyword: Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, adult relationships, American college students, long distance relationship
    Two young people forge a relationship in college based around music, books, and beer. Years later, as their relationship cracks, and their addictions deepen, they go their separate ways and create new lives for themselves. After overcoming their dependencies, they discover the only thing they were ever addicted to was each other. Closeness drove them apart, but distance may bring them back together.
  • The Queen of Cocoa Puffs and The Cap'n Crunch King by Corey Pajka
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy + 3 more
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    Keyword: children, contemporary fantasy
    Genre: comedy, fantasy, farce, parody/spoof, young audiences
    Keyword: children, contemporary fantasy
    Some of the greatest battles in history are unrecorded. Some of the bloodiest wars are fought right at home. When a pair of sovereign siblings sit down for breakfast with two hearty appetites and one cereal box between them, a battle cry is heard across the kingdom of New Brunswick. There will be blood—and perhaps orange juice.
  • Fahrenheit IS-51 by Corey Pajka
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: office life, Surreal
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: office life, Surreal
    It’s a standard day at IS-51. There are reports to be completed, quotas to be met, and the new guy just showed up completely engulfed in flames. The strange thing is that no one seems to notice. It’s not until he finally points it out to them that an unsettling realization starts to set in. Work is hell…
  • Brief Encounters of the Third Kind by Corey Pajka
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, parody/spoof + 2 more
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    Keyword: housewife, love affair + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, parody/spoof, period, science fiction
    Keyword: housewife, love affair, alien invasion
    Laura Jesson is a happily married woman who wants for nothing. That is, until she meets a mysterious man who seems to come from a whole world apart from the one she knows. Between this and the pending alien invasion, she’s going through a rough time. Will Laura find her place in the world before it falls down around her? Literally?
  • Visible Cosmic Entities by Corey Pajka
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: outer space, astronomy + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: outer space, astronomy, mental illness
    Carl is an amateur astronomer and an armchair philosopher. Ever since the accident, Carl’s life has been in neutral. The only thing he has to look forward to is beer in the backyard with his best friend Isaac under an incredible night sky. It isn’t until his girlfriend Sally intervenes that Carl realizes he needs to find his way back to reality, and back to Earth, before it’s too late.
  • The Amazing Adventures of Dirk Dalloway in the 27th Century by Corey Pajka
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    5
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: outer space, future
    Genre: adventure, comedy, science fiction
    Keyword: outer space, future
    In a far-off future, maverick space captain Dirk Dalloway is returning from a salvage mission on a long-abandoned planet called Earth. With a payload of junk food and an impressive collection of sci-fi DVDS, he thinks he has it made until an old foe from Dalloway’s past threatens to unmake the entire voyage. Can Dirk Dalloway outwit this dastardly despot? Will first mate Ensley rise to the occasion? Will the...
    In a far-off future, maverick space captain Dirk Dalloway is returning from a salvage mission on a long-abandoned planet called Earth. With a payload of junk food and an impressive collection of sci-fi DVDS, he thinks he has it made until an old foe from Dalloway’s past threatens to unmake the entire voyage. Can Dirk Dalloway outwit this dastardly despot? Will first mate Ensley rise to the occasion? Will the finale of Battlestar Galactica be as disappointing five hundred years in the future as it was for us? Tune in and see! Same Dirk time! Same Dirk theater!