Jeremy Sony

Jeremy Sony

JEREMY SONY is a writer, husband, father, and effulgent dreamer. He has written close to a dozen full-length plays, a few film scripts, and more short plays than he can count. Some of his favorites include MARS OHIO, THE LAST QUEEN OF WONDERLAND, SLEEPY HOLLOW: THE LOST CHAPTER, and PATHOGENESIS. His plays have been developed/produced by Tantrum East, Nashville Rep, Theatre Daedalus, Available Light, MadLab...
JEREMY SONY is a writer, husband, father, and effulgent dreamer. He has written close to a dozen full-length plays, a few film scripts, and more short plays than he can count. Some of his favorites include MARS OHIO, THE LAST QUEEN OF WONDERLAND, SLEEPY HOLLOW: THE LOST CHAPTER, and PATHOGENESIS. His plays have been developed/produced by Tantrum East, Nashville Rep, Theatre Daedalus, Available Light, MadLab Theatre, Curtain Players, Luna Theatre, and The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, among others, as well as by schools and youth theatre programs nationally and internationally. Sony earned his MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University, where he was named an Anthony Trisolini Graduate Fellow and received the Scott McPherson Playwriting Award. He is an alum of the Ingram New Works Lab at Nashville Rep, and currently serves as a mentor to high school playwrights for MadLab Theatre's Young Writers program in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Find him on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Mastodon under the handle @JeremyWrites.

Plays

  • The Last Queen of Wonderland by Jeremy Sony
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    26–40
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 3 more
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    Keyword: modern, Queen of Hearts + 7 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, drama, fantasy, young audiences
    Keyword: modern, Queen of Hearts, adaptation, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Sisters, Theatre for Young Audiences, big cast
    150 years after Lewis Carroll wrote about Alice's adventures in Wonderland, a young girl goes missing and her sister Lacie discovers an impossible secret—all the stories were real. Now, Lacie must travel through the looking glass where she meets the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter and even curiouser, a lost Otherlander like her—from two centuries before she was born. With time broken and Wonderland on the...
    150 years after Lewis Carroll wrote about Alice's adventures in Wonderland, a young girl goes missing and her sister Lacie discovers an impossible secret—all the stories were real. Now, Lacie must travel through the looking glass where she meets the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter and even curiouser, a lost Otherlander like her—from two centuries before she was born. With time broken and Wonderland on the brink of war, Lacie find herself at the heart of a rebellion against the Queen. Will she find a way to save her sister and escape back through the looking glass, or will she be too late and end up trapped in Wonderland forever?
  • Sleepy Hollow: The Lost Chapter by Jeremy Sony
    Cast: 
    15–19
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 5 more
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    Keyword: Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving + 6 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, drama, fable/folktale, holiday, mystery/thriller, period
    Keyword: Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving, reimagined classic, reimagining, halloween, Headless Horseman, ghost story, 18th century
    Ichabod Crane's disappearance was only the beginning. Sleepy Hollow: The Lost Chapter picks up in the final pages of Washington Irving's classic tale of Sleepy Hollow, revealing a previously untold piece of the legend in this full-length stage play. Ichabod has vanished and his students are determined to find out the truth of what happened; but a new schoolteacher has come to town -- Abigail Seymour...
    Ichabod Crane's disappearance was only the beginning. Sleepy Hollow: The Lost Chapter picks up in the final pages of Washington Irving's classic tale of Sleepy Hollow, revealing a previously untold piece of the legend in this full-length stage play. Ichabod has vanished and his students are determined to find out the truth of what happened; but a new schoolteacher has come to town -- Abigail Seymour -- who is more focused on teaching than chasing ghosts, until she has her own run-in with the Headless Horseman. Now, Abigail and her students must hurry to retrace Ichabod's final days in Sleepy Hollow and find a way to stop the Horseman once and for all. Along the way, they cross paths with Katrina Van Tassel, Brom Bones, and all of Irving's original characters, uncovering secrets and revelations about that fateful night in Sleepy Hollow.
  • Mars Ohio by Jeremy Sony
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Mars, reality tv + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: Mars, reality tv, future, competition
    In the not-too-distant future, fifty-two regular Americans are being selected to join the first city-settlement on the planet Mars through the most rigorous selection process known to human-kind: reality TV. The Mars Ohio seat is up first and as the last four contestants prepare for finale week, a surprise crisis exposes new secrets, ignites rivalries, and sets off a chain of events that could get all of them voted off the mission.
  • Robin Hood and the Secret of Sherwood by Jeremy Sony
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    21–33
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 3 more
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    Keyword: Robin Hood, Sherwood + 8 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, drama, fable/folktale, period
    Keyword: Robin Hood, Sherwood, Nottingham, legend, adaptation, Alternate British History, Plantagenets, stage combat for women, sword fighting, outdoor theater
    Sword fights, secret identities, love, betrayal, redemption: history and legend collide in this new tale of Robin Hood! ​When the Brothers Huntingdon lost their parents to the treachery of King Henry of the Plantagenets, their lives took very different paths. When their paths cross again in Sherwood Forest, they find a Queen fighting for freedom, the King who destroyed their family, and the truth about their...
    Sword fights, secret identities, love, betrayal, redemption: history and legend collide in this new tale of Robin Hood! ​When the Brothers Huntingdon lost their parents to the treachery of King Henry of the Plantagenets, their lives took very different paths. When their paths cross again in Sherwood Forest, they find a Queen fighting for freedom, the King who destroyed their family, and the truth about their connection to the legendary Robin Hood. Their feud puts the very future of England at stake, as one brother puts the law before his kin, while the other discovers that being an outlaw might just be in his blood.
  • Madeline Shelley and the World of Monsters by Jeremy Sony
    Cast: 
    20–25
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 6 more
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    Keyword: 1930s New York, 1939 New York World’s Fair + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, fantasy, horror, mystery/thriller, period, science fiction, young audiences
    Keyword: 1930s New York, 1939 New York World’s Fair, Frankenstein, dracula, werewolves, Van Helsing, 1930s science fiction, literary adaptation
    When several scientists go missing at the 1939 World's Fair, a teenager name Madeline sets out to find two of them; her parents. Teaming up with a gang of orphans and a strange new friend with her own secrets, Madeline finds that under the streets of New York an old world stirs, and that stories of Dracula, Van Helsing, Frankenstein, and werewolves aren't stories at all. Her quest unravels secrets...
    When several scientists go missing at the 1939 World's Fair, a teenager name Madeline sets out to find two of them; her parents. Teaming up with a gang of orphans and a strange new friend with her own secrets, Madeline finds that under the streets of New York an old world stirs, and that stories of Dracula, Van Helsing, Frankenstein, and werewolves aren't stories at all. Her quest unravels secrets about who she really is, and Madeline must find a way to save her family without becoming a monster herself.
  • Pathogenesis by Jeremy Sony
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Fathers and Daughters, Viral Outbreak + 5 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Fathers and Daughters, Viral Outbreak, family, virus, pathogen, plague, CDC
    When a new infectious pathogen is discovered in a remote village in Belgium---a supervirus that means nothing less than the beginning of the end---one of the world’s leading scientific minds figures out a way to stop the outbreak; but his theory is untested, unthinkable, and while it could save most of the planet, it would cost millions of lives. Regardless of the risk, he’s convinced it’s the only way to save...
    When a new infectious pathogen is discovered in a remote village in Belgium---a supervirus that means nothing less than the beginning of the end---one of the world’s leading scientific minds figures out a way to stop the outbreak; but his theory is untested, unthinkable, and while it could save most of the planet, it would cost millions of lives. Regardless of the risk, he’s convinced it’s the only way to save us all. What’s more frightening is, he might be right. He can’t execute his plan alone, and the one person he’s trying to convince to help him--- a brilliant young scientist and insider at the CDC---is the one person who could stop him: his daughter. The question is, should she?
  • The View at the End by Jeremy Sony
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: end of the world, urban + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: end of the world, urban, love
    Agatha just wants to feel something before the end, and Charlie just wants more wine. Alone on a city rooftop at the end of the world, these two strangers think they know what they want, until Sally and Oscar show up and the end of the world gets complicated.
  • Next Stop Central Station by Jeremy Sony
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, tragedy
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    Keyword: subway, trains + 1 more
    Genre: drama, tragedy
    Keyword: subway, trains, strangers
    Laura just wants to make friends. Sam just wants to read the paper. And Alan needs to focus on his work. But Laura's got to know, "what's in the cooler?" Three strangers, one sub-way car, and a potentially explosive situation.