Roni Ragone is a non-binary playwright based in New York City whose work explores the messy boundaries of gender expectations and the lengths we go to in search of community. Night Night, Roger Roger, published by Dramatic Publishing Company, has been produced in 13 different states across the country; Ragone became the first ever undergraduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, to have a full-length play performed as a mainstage production. Later this year, Night Night, Roger Roger will be performed at Seattle Public Theatre and Rock Canyon Theatre Company. One Act, Company Drain, was selected and performed as a staged reading in the Center at West Park’s Launchpad Reading Series. Ragone’s short plays have been seen in the 47th, 48th, and 50th Concord Theatricals Off...
Roni Ragone is a non-binary playwright based in New York City whose work explores the messy boundaries of gender expectations and the lengths we go to in search of community. Night Night, Roger Roger, published by Dramatic Publishing Company, has been produced in 13 different states across the country; Ragone became the first ever undergraduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, to have a full-length play performed as a mainstage production. Later this year, Night Night, Roger Roger will be performed at Seattle Public Theatre and Rock Canyon Theatre Company. One Act, Company Drain, was selected and performed as a staged reading in the Center at West Park’s Launchpad Reading Series. Ragone’s short plays have been seen in the 47th, 48th, and 50th Concord Theatricals Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, including finalist, “Left Overs.” “Left Overs,” was originally written and performed as a staged reading as a part of Cry Havok’s Playlist cohort and has since been performed at Boston Theatre Company’s Queer Voices Festival and Precarious Theatre’s Precarious Nights in London. Since then, this same 10-minute play has been in development into a full-length play, Sleeping on Sunshine. Sleeping on Sunshine has continued to develop through the 46 Minute Collective Cohort and had its first reading in NYC this past November. Ragone’s published monologues can be read in Smith & Kraus’s Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2025 and in Purple Light Production’s Type Cast: 27 Monologues Inspired by the Nine Enneagram Types. Ragone cofounded and led cohorts focusing on playwriting development cohorts through Fresh Binder Productions, supporting fellow emerging transgender/gender-nonconforming playwrights in New York City.