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PATHOGENESIS

Drama - 2M, 1W
A global pandemic, a dangerous cure, and a father / daughter relationship set to explode at the end of the world. 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 has figured out a way to stop the outbreak, but his theory is untested, unthinkable, and unsupported by the CDC. While it could save most of the planet, it would cost millions of lives. Regardless of that 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, will she?

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Development History
  • Nashville Repertory Theatre Ingram New Works Festival 2014
  • Nashville Repertory Theatre Ingram New Works Lab 2013-2014
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SLEEPY HOLLOW: THE LOST CHAPTER
Freely adapted from  Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

When Ichabod Crane went missing in Sleepy Hollow on that fateful night in 1790, it was thought that to be the end of the story; but Ichabod Crane wasn't the only schoolteacher to come to Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow: The Lost Chapter picks up in the final pages of Washington Irving's classic, revealing a previously untold piece of the legend. After Ichabod disappears, his students are determined to find out the truth of what happened. Their new schoolteacher, Abigail Seymour, is more focused on teaching than chasing ghosts---that is until she has her own run-in with the Horseman. Now, she and the students must hurry to retrace Ichabod's final night in Sleepy Hollow and find a way to stop the Horseman once and for all; along the way, we discover new revelations, gain clues on who the Headless Horseman could be, and meet all the original Irving characters from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Run time: Approx. 90 minutes. One intermission.

Cast size: 23 (8m / 15f); or, with doubling: 18 (8m / 10f), or 15 (5m / 10f). 
Can be staged with adult and youth actors; or done with an all youth cast. 
Flexible set. 
Available for production. Please email jeremy@jeremysony.com for information.

Selected as the winner of the Playhouse Nashville playwrights contest, this script was originally produced at Street Theatre Company as "Ichabod: Missing in Sleepy Hollow" in October 2013.
Ichabod Missing in Sleepy Hollow by Jeremy Sony

FRACKTURE

Drama - 2M, 2W
When their oldest brother dies, leaving them with a mountain of debt, Mitch and Zack discover that the answer to their prayers--- hydraulic fracturing---may be a devil’s bargain. Trying to right years of pain he caused his brothers, Mitch’s help causes more harm than good. When one brother’s actions push the other to break the law and go after the fracking company, it forces them to question their loyalties: Zack to decide if he's more like Mitch than he wants to admit; and Mitch to face his past and decide what's more important, saving himself or saving his family.

Development History
  • Seabury Quinn Jr., Playwrights Fest, Workshop reading, April 2013
  • TAGS New Play Project (Athens, OH), Workshop reading, April 2013

THE PHYSICS OF TINY BUBBLES

Drama - 3W, 2M
One minute she’s a future Nobel prize-winning physicist and the next she’s managing a laundro-pub in New Jersey. When Prairie Bly’s dad dies in a car accident, she rallies to save the only home she’s ever known from going under. Conspiring against her is a mother who wants to sell the family business, a sister who politely steals her identity, and a man named Dane Shepperd whose sense of timing is anything but coincidence.

Development History
  • Seabury Quinn Jr., Playwrights Festival, Reading, June 2012

THE FACE OF CONTRITION

Drama - 3W, 2M
A ratings-starved news pundit on the brink of cancellation, James is coping with the death of his wife and co-host, Alison. He's wants to break the last story they worked on together, but the pressure to produce ratings and stay on the air without Alison's help is greater than he realized. Loyalties are put to the fire when a congressional scandal erupts within James' inner-circle. Squaring off against his daughter, the media, and even his dead wife, how far will James go to make his deadline and ensure his wife's final story will be told?

Development History
  • Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights Festival, Reading, June 2011

SEPARATION ANXIETY

Drama - 3M, 2W
On a cold morning in December, Bailey Palmer died. On the day of his funeral, his best friends, Quinn and Jess, are separated by thousands of miles and unresolved feelings. Stuck in an airport, Quinn is befriended by a woman named Lily whose brutal honesty brings out the truth about his friendship with Bai, while Jess heads to the home of Bailey and his grieving father in search for answers about her friend's mysterious death and forgiveness for what she did to him. The entire morning is interspersed with memories from the last days of Bailey Palmer, flashbacks that reveal truths which Quinn and Jess aren't ready to face and the possibility that the accident which killed Bailey might have been something else -- something Bailey wanted.

Development History
  • Curtain Players Play Fest, Workshop, January 2008
  • Screenplay adaptation produced by Glass City Films (see Film)


One-ActS & SHORT Plays

The View at the End

Dramedy - 2W, 2M (10-15 min)
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.
  • Available Light Theatre (24 Hour Theatre), World Premiere, November 2014

Parallaxis

Drama - 2M, 2W (10 minute)
Axis is sitting on the edge of mortality. The victim of a mall stabbing, he is met by two beings that call themselves Mat and Devyn. Pulled between life and death, Axis discovers more about who he is and the choice that sits before him.  
  • MadLab Theatre (Theatre Roulette), World Premiere, May 2014
  • Theatre Daedalus (Project 10), Staged-Reading, July 2008

Advice to the Happy Couple

Comedy/Drama - 1M, 1W (10 minute)
What’s the key to a happy marriage? Michelle says one thing. Her husband, Will, has other thoughts. At their friends’ wedding, the advice-cam has found them and going on record might just test every theory they have.
  • MadLab Theatre (Theatre Roulette), World Premiere, May 2013
  • Script available for download

Next Stop Central Station

Drama - 2M, 1W (10 minute)
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.
  • Ten Minute Playhouse, Staged Reading, Feb. 2014
  • WMU Directors' Festival of New Work, Staged Reading, February 2013
  • Script available for download

Cuckold Walks Into a Bar

Tony’s having a crap day. He just wants to have a beer. Or five. He’s not talking to his wife, he got fired, and wait... what happened with the zebra at the zoo? He’s just avoiding the issue, but how long can that go on before the world brings the fight to him? (Drama w/levity. 1 M, 1 W.)
  • World Premiere, MadLab Theatre Roulette, May 2014
  • Script available for download

The Cosmonaut in Human Resources

Comedy - 1M, 1W (10 minute)
When Dreyev walks into human resources, he finds he's missing the one key requirement for the job he wants: he's not Paul. Who's Paul? That's what Dreyev needs to figure out before it's too late. Because it might just be him.
  • Luna Theater Company (Identity Crisis Festival), World Premiere, June 2012

Spin Cycle

Drama - 1M, 1W  (10 minute)
It's closing time at Tiny Bubbles and Adam and Hannah have more to worry about than dirty laundry. Their relationship on the line, seems like the best time for Adam to bring up the red-head on the bus who winked at him.
  • Theatre Daedalus (Project 10), Full-production, June 2009
  • 2010 Heideman Award Finalist, Actors Theatre of Louisville 

Do They Expedite There

A Hostage Situation Comedy - 1W, 1M (one-act)
Christmas Eve was going fine until the police showed up to arrest Laura's boyfriend Ray as the Bay River Murderer. Not believing it for a second, Laura decided to play hostage. Which at first, sounded fun. But it's been sixteen hours, Laura has Christmas shopping to do, and the police are getting impatient. They've just got to come up with a ransom, plan their escape, and figure where to go, but Ray's not the brightest bulb on the tree; so Laura only has one option: take her inadvertent kidnapping into her own hands.
  • Curtain Players Play Fest, Workshop production, January 2005

The Death of Edward Fox

Comedy - 2M, 2W (~15 minutes)
Fitz, a guardian angel on the edge of retirement finds himself in the hot seat when he goes AWOL and his ward, Edward Fox is murdered. As if that isn't bad enough, new regulations in Heaven allow victims of violent deaths to sue if there is proof of negligence. And Edward Fox is doing just that.If Fitz can't provide answers to Heaven's Internal Affairs office, he stands to lose more than his retirement. He could lose his wings.
  • Impromptu Night of 10-minute Plays - Staged Reading, March 2013
  • Theatre Daedalus, Caught in the Act - Staged Reading, January 2010
  • Script Available for Download

Meeting God on a Tuesday Morning

Drama - 2M, 1W (One-Act)

Late for a meeting on a Tuesday morning, the last thing power attorney Jack Clark expected was to end up dead. And even more jarring, he didn't expect to be welcomed to the afterlife by a case-worker named Morty. Kicking around in a heavenly waiting room that oddly resembles his apartment, Jack is forced to come to terms with the man he was and the person he is, getting some help from someone who probably knew him the least, yet seems to understand him the most. With the help of Morty and their inexplicably shared secretary Hanna, Jack readies himself for the biggest meeting of his life.
  • Curtain Players Play Fest, Staged-Reading, June 2009

Charlie Dog

Drama - 1M, 1W (10-minute)
Colvin needs cash. And Charlie knows where they can get it. She's trouble and Colvin knows it. A white dress, a gun, and a 1985 Red Spectra Cadillac. Colvin's day just got interesting.
  • Theatre Daedalus (Project 10), Staged-Reading, July 2008



How do I get copies of these plays?

Just ask. Contact me. Shorter pieces available for production; full-lengths seeking development/production opportunities. 



The Hahne Theatre before Madness at Ohio University 2010
The Death of Edward Fox - Caught in the Act - Theatre Daedalus 2010
Separation Anxiety (stageplay) Curtain Players Playwrights Festival 2008
Frackture_TAGS Workshop
Appearing in 'Take Two' by Michael Parsons - Enjoy Theatre 2004
Frackture_TAGSWorkshop
Advice to the Happy Couple
Spin Cycle - Project 10 - Theatre Daedalus 2009
Do They Expedite There - Curtain Players 2005
Rehearsing for 'End of the World Madness' - Ohio University - 2010
Meeting God on a Tuesday Morning - Curtain Players Playwrights Fest 2009
Appearing in Inventing Van Gogh at Curtain Players 2005
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