Sònia Victoria Werner

Sònia Victoria Werner

SÒNIA VICTORIA WERNER (she/her/ella) or Vikki for short, is an award-winning Hispanic-American playwright, actress, producer, and entrepreneur based in New York. Spending much of her life in Spain, Germany, and New Jersey, she’s had the honor of writing, producing, and starring in work in many different cities and languages. As a multilingual, multicultural, multi-hyphenate artist, Vikki's aim is to bring...
SÒNIA VICTORIA WERNER (she/her/ella) or Vikki for short, is an award-winning Hispanic-American playwright, actress, producer, and entrepreneur based in New York. Spending much of her life in Spain, Germany, and New Jersey, she’s had the honor of writing, producing, and starring in work in many different cities and languages. As a multilingual, multicultural, multi-hyphenate artist, Vikki's aim is to bring dynamic stories which mirror the diversity of the real world and amplify Hispanic/Latine and queer voices to the forefront. As a playwright, she has produced and developed work with The Playground Experiment, We Are Actors NYC, La MaMa Galleria, NYU Tisch School of the Arts (“Decaer" or and Waiting and - Official Spring 2022 StudentWorks selection), The Broke People Play Festival (Zoom You, the searcher is Lost), NYU Steinhart’s Educational Theatre Commission (the Up Above), the Pop-Up Players (Keen on Commiseration), Uproar Theatre Corps, and through TYA tours around the Tri-State Area, among others. Her screenwriting work has gone on to be produced by Stonestreet Studios and Lighthouse Ladies, LLC. // www.soniavictoria.com

Plays

  • Decaer or and Waiting and by Sònia Victoria Werner
    Cast: 
    7–14
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    Genre: adventure, dark comedy + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy, immersive, movement/physical
    At its core, "Decaer or and Waiting" and is an experiential dramedy centered around the individual grieving process within a culture that historically prioritizes the collective. It’s a story about the loss and mortality of an individual amidst the self-discovery of another. Through various vignettes, it explores themes such as Spanish/Catalan/Latinx mythology, the impact of language barriers on...
    At its core, "Decaer or and Waiting" and is an experiential dramedy centered around the individual grieving process within a culture that historically prioritizes the collective. It’s a story about the loss and mortality of an individual amidst the self-discovery of another. Through various vignettes, it explores themes such as Spanish/Catalan/Latinx mythology, the impact of language barriers on understanding, the transitions between the stages of grief, celebration and grief in community, the distance between three realms of life (Womb, World, Afterlife), and a fragmented identity, triumph, and concept of ‘you’. We follow mythological figures, humans, and a family, all in pursuit of answers that exist outside of the self.
  • Keen on Commiseration by Sònia Victoria Werner
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Is it better to live in the past or in the future when the present is no longer a possibility? A contemporized look into this philosophical conundrum, one-act dramedy “Keen on Commiseration” confronts two roommates living in respective pursuit and regret.
  • Grassy Gal by Sònia Victoria Werner
    Cast: 
    1–2
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: monologue, personhood + 6 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, movement/physical, young audiences
    Keyword: monologue, personhood, growing up, life, death, withering, flowers, Childhood
    Based on a photograph by Diane Arbus, Grassy Gal exists in two versions: a monologue and a play in conversation with her older sister and "swings gal" Shelby. Here, Grassy Gal examines personhood without a name and a refusal of growing up without anyone to hold her.
  • the Up Above by Sònia Victoria Werner
    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 3 more
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    Keyword: queerness, fleeting youth + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, mystery/thriller, science fiction, young audiences
    Keyword: queerness, fleeting youth, lgbtq youth, teens, the new normal, growing older, teen mystery
    the Up Above is a new theatrical work written primarily for high school audiences. When group of high schoolers Genevieve, Clay, Dolores, and Ilona find themselves trapped in their school’s basement (a space coined “the down below”), it’s up to them to figure out how and why they got there, whether it’s safe to leave, but most importantly, how to live with the new normal. Acting as an incubator of youth and...
    the Up Above is a new theatrical work written primarily for high school audiences. When group of high schoolers Genevieve, Clay, Dolores, and Ilona find themselves trapped in their school’s basement (a space coined “the down below”), it’s up to them to figure out how and why they got there, whether it’s safe to leave, but most importantly, how to live with the new normal. Acting as an incubator of youth and juvenility, “the down below” means different things to each of the teens. As time ticks away and a fifth (slightly younger) member is introduced to the already tense social dynamic, the anxieties of modern teenage life take control of the underground bunker. A below-the-surface look into queerness and identity in a transient, unfamiliar space, the Up Above centers in on teens as they navigate their new circumstances and complicated feelings for one another, the mysterious world above, and the urge to sacrifice the collective in order to save the individual.
  • the searcher is Lost by Sònia Victoria Werner
    Cast: 
    5–9
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, zoom
    the searcher is Lost is a collection of live vignettes utilizing the Zoom space to its fullest potential to examine the certainty often found in the uncertain (and vice versa) and the value and meaning of meaning.
    The scenes in this play have been carefully ordered, encapsulating the essences and progression of various emotions experienced in isolation.

    Note: there are two versions of this...
    the searcher is Lost is a collection of live vignettes utilizing the Zoom space to its fullest potential to examine the certainty often found in the uncertain (and vice versa) and the value and meaning of meaning.
    The scenes in this play have been carefully ordered, encapsulating the essences and progression of various emotions experienced in isolation.

    Note: there are two versions of this play. One is written specifically for Zoom and the other is written for the stage.
  • Zoom You by Sònia Victoria Werner
    Cast: 
    4–5
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    Genre: experimental, fantasy + 4 more
    Genre: experimental, fantasy, immersive, pantomime, romantic comedy, zoom
    This one-act written specifically for the Zoom platform utilizes this virtual space to examine post-isolation connection through the illusion of choice. The piece places the audience in ‘control’, frequently asking them to weigh in their opinions and perspectives utilizing Zoom’s POLL function—quotations are used here because this control is largely an illusion. In other words, the audience can interact/vote,...
    This one-act written specifically for the Zoom platform utilizes this virtual space to examine post-isolation connection through the illusion of choice. The piece places the audience in ‘control’, frequently asking them to weigh in their opinions and perspectives utilizing Zoom’s POLL function—quotations are used here because this control is largely an illusion. In other words, the audience can interact/vote, but the results will not be shared (until the final poll).
  • i don't know where we are by Sònia Victoria Werner
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, experimental
    Genre: drama, experimental
    "If we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less"— An exploration of this quote from The Creative Process by James Baldwin, i don't know where we are explores the complexities and consequences of undefined identity.