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. Find his plays on the New Play Exchange at newplayexchange.org.
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Jeremy Sony is a Midwest-based writer whose plays include Madeline Shelley and the World of Monsters (New Covenant Players), Out of the Darkness (Available Light 24 Hour Theatre 2016), The Last Queen of Wonderland (ClassAct Dramatics at Street Theatre Co.), The Century Box (World Premiere, Little Theatre Off Broadway), Robin Hood and the Secret of Sherwood (Curtain Players; Class Act Dramatics @ STC); Sleepy Hollow: The Lost Chapter (ClassAct Dramatics @ STC); The View at the End (Available Light 24 Hour Theatre 2014); Parallaxis and Cuckold Walks Into A Bar (MadLab Theatre Roulette 2014); Advice to the Happy Couple (MadLab, Theatre Roulette 2013); and The Cosmonaut in Human Resources (Luna Theatre).  

His plays have also been seen and developed at Nashville Rep, Penobscot Theater, Playhouse Nashville's Ten Minute Playhouse, Western Michigan University, The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Ohio University MFA Playwrights Workshop, and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. 

​Sony received his M.F.A. in Playwriting at Ohio University and B.A. in Film & Television at the University of Notre Dame.  He has studied under playwrights Charles Smith, Erik Ramsey, Merri Biechler, Mark Pilkinton, Doug Wright, and Kara Lee Corthron. 

Sony lives in central Ohio with his wife and sons where he stays active in local theatre. His plays have been staged locally with Curtain Players, MadLab, Available Light, Theatre Daedalus, LTOB, Mouth of the Wolf, Westerville Parks & Rec, and the City of Grove City. He served as a mentor for the MadLab Young Writers program from 2017-2022, and ran the Curtain Players New Works Initiative from 2018-2022. When he's not writing plays or films, Sony is a Web Content Manager at a local university. Find him on Facebook, Twitter, and many social media sites under the handle @JeremyWrites.

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: 2018-2019 Curtain Players New Works Initiative; 2013-2014 Ingram New Works Lab Residency (Nashville Repertory Theatre); Scott McPherson Playwriting Award (2012); 2012-2013 Anthony Trisolini Graduate Fellowship (Ohio University); 2010 Heideman Award Finalist (for Spin Cycle).  

FILM: (feature) Separation Anxiety (Best Drama, 2012 Riverbend Film Festival; produced by Glass City Films, featuring Emmy-winner John Wesley Shipp and Drama Desk nominee Polly Adams); (shorts) The Promotion (Whispering Daemon Productions; 2019 Columbus Three Weeks of Terror); Trash Polka (Kool Kat Productions; 2019 SOFA Winterfilm) Help (Kool Kat Productions; 2017 SOFA Winterfilm); The Last Con (Two Pop Productions; 2015 Columbus 48HFP Best of Series)

OTHER WRITING: “Hard Stop” (published by Outskirts Press under the pseudonym Jamie Rotham).
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