Roni Ragone

Roni Ragone

Roni Ragone is a New York based non-binary playwright whose work is situated at the intersection of exploring the boundaries of gender expectations and testing the lengths people will go to in search of human connectedness all while being told through intriguing worlds that give us the space to discover new perspectives on our everyday lives. Ragone recently graduated from the University of California, Santa...
Roni Ragone is a New York based non-binary playwright whose work is situated at the intersection of exploring the boundaries of gender expectations and testing the lengths people will go to in search of human connectedness all while being told through intriguing worlds that give us the space to discover new perspectives on our everyday lives. Ragone recently graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with bachelor degrees in English and Theatre with a concentration in playwriting. Their full length play, "Night Night, Roger Roger," published by Dramatic Publishing Company, was performed on the main-stage as part of the 2022-2023 season at the University of California, Santa Barbara; this play has also produced at The College of Siskiyous, Pascack Valley High School, and Young Artists Ensemble. Ragone's short play, "my barricade," was selected and will be performed in the Top 30 in the 48th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival and will be performed in the Vineyard Theatre, and last year, their play "We're All Girls Here," was selected and performed in the same festival at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Playwrights Horizons. Short plays, "Hiding in Flowers" and "Security!," were both selected and performed in Southern Rep Theatre’s Pop Up Play Series in both April and May of 2021. Their newest full length play, "Up Strung Down," was workshopped through Amplify last fall. Along with William Huffaker, Ragone is one of the co-creators of "Doubles" - a playwriting festival produced through The Initiative for New and Reimagined Works. Ragone has been an intern for esteemed playwrights such as James Still, Idris Goodwin, and Yussef El Guindi through Risa Brainin's play workshop initiative "Launchpad."

Ragone is a member of the Dramatists Guild. they/them/theirs

Plays

  • Up Strung Down
    SEEKING DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES - A touching dramedy told through watercolors, bagels, and string. This fanciful story explores the push vs pull, ups vs downs, and the mystical vs the real aspects of life through a few relationships and worlds. This multiverse strips down magic to bare humanity and tests how people act and who they are beyond the place they're stuck in. Does where we come from define...
    SEEKING DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES - A touching dramedy told through watercolors, bagels, and string. This fanciful story explores the push vs pull, ups vs downs, and the mystical vs the real aspects of life through a few relationships and worlds. This multiverse strips down magic to bare humanity and tests how people act and who they are beyond the place they're stuck in. Does where we come from define ourselves? Can we escape the lives we've always known and find peace through freedom? Or will we eventually find ourselves back to square one? "Up Strung Down" tests the lengths people go to to find their identity within themselves.
  • Night Night, Roger Roger
    It's midnight, but that doesn't mean the world slows down. "Night Night, Roger Roger" by Roni Ragone is a comedic fanciful play about the world after the sun goes down. Roller skating Nanas, kids with tin cans, literary obsessed vampires, clumsy security guards, kids without tin cans, quirky game show hosts, and more. This play is a plea for every person to stop growing up so fast. Take your...
    It's midnight, but that doesn't mean the world slows down. "Night Night, Roger Roger" by Roni Ragone is a comedic fanciful play about the world after the sun goes down. Roller skating Nanas, kids with tin cans, literary obsessed vampires, clumsy security guards, kids without tin cans, quirky game show hosts, and more. This play is a plea for every person to stop growing up so fast. Take your moment with the universe and enjoy it.
    Can be performed over Zoom or in person
  • My Barricade
    Cam and Charlie deal with some of their issues as a couple after Cam slips and gets a light injury - Charlie is covered in blood from the man he loves, and Cam can't help but focus on himself.
  • We're All Girls Here
    "We're All Girls Here" written by Roni Ragone is the story of a teenage girl, Tubby, and her struggles with self-presentation as she's given advice by some well meaning and not so well meaning friends.
  • Fucking Lamppost
    A short monologue - Robin calls the Bureau of Street Lighting in order to fix a problem that has been causing her husband, Jeremy, severe distress.
  • The Tree House Play
    Susie and Stewart are in a fighting in (and sometimes just near) their kid's tree house, and they might get a divorce. The two battle with the weaponry in their surroundings while wondering "can we really work this out?"
  • Bisque in Glory (Or Red Red Red Lobster)
    Bisque in Glory is the comedic take about what happens when a diner runs out of lobster bisque. That's right: pure terror. Who will get the last bowl? Will the waitress ever start caring about this tragedy? Will the world ever be the same? Who knows! Romance. Horror. Lobsters. It's in their hands now...or...claws...
  • The Dulling of Teeth
    A shark group therapy session - sharks in a human world trying to survive in a world where they aren't fully accepted by the people running it.
  • Between the Lines
    This environmental ten minute play is about park rangers who get stuck in a fault line during their shift at Yosemite. Georgia, a newer employee, panics while Lila and Clifford sit back snd wait for the Earth to make the next move. The three are forced to reflect on the way humans are treating the par, and realize what they need to listen to the Earth herself for a solution.
  • Hiding in Flowers
    Mabel and Alice are Skyping. Mabel is an old soul and helpful with Abigail's hard English homework. The two discuss boys, "boys," literature, and Mabel comes out to her as a vampire.
    Can be performed live or online.
  • Security!
    Zach and Nolan are security guards at a history museum. On his break, something happens! Zach attempts to cover his mistakes by sending Nolan on a wild goose chase - chaos ensues.
  • Eli, Eli
    When a young boy, Jamie, loses his father, he is unsure how to cope. His well-meaning and misguided teachers attempt to offer comfort through faith, but this proves dangerous when Jamie projects his father's situation to the resurrection in the Bible. This family drama questions religion and the power faith can have.
  • Green Tea and Cinnamon
    In the style of an epistolary, Henry begins to develop feelings for someone that doesn't know they exist. Flustered feelings of romance along getting pushed down by a harsh sense of internalized homophobia.