OU Playwriting Alum, Jeremy Sony has two exciting upcoming projects!
Street Theatre Company’s ClassAct Dramatics will premiere his play, “THE LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD:, November 14, 2014, in Nashville. This is his second time working with STC, who commissioned this new full-length following the success of last year’s ICHABOD: MISSING IN SLEEPY HOLLOW.Click here for more info.
The second project is that he will be writing for Available Light Theatre’s upcoming 24 HOUR THEATRE here in Columbus. 6 writers, 6 directors, and 22 actors are gathering for 24 hours to create a night of new plays to be staged November 8, 2014 at 8pm.24 Hour Theatre is the drag racing of the theatre world. It’s short, furiously intense, and something might explode.
Thirty artists, spanning the breadth of the Columbus theatre community, will create six brand-new short plays in just 24 hours. Starting at 8pm on Friday night, names are drawn, teams created, plays written over night, and rehearsals completed in 8 hours, all in time for opening night at 8pm on Saturday.
More about Jeremy Sony:
Jeremy Sony is a Midwest-based writer and co-founder of Theatre Daedalus. His plays include: ICHABOD: MISSING IN SLEEPY HOLLOW (World Premiere, Street Theatre Company ClassAct Dramatics), PARALLAXIS and CUCKOLD WALKS INTO A BAR (MadLab Theatre Roulette 2014), ADVICE TO THE HAPPY COUPLE (MadLab, Theatre Roulette 2013), THE COSMONAUT IN HUMAN RESOURCES (Luna Theatre), SPIN CYCLE (2010 Heideman Award Finalist, Actors Theatre of Louisville), AGAINST THE PANE (Penobscot Theater), MEETING GOD ON A TUESDAY MORNING and DO THEY EXPEDITE THERE (Curtain Players Theater). UPCOMING PLAYS: THE LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD (World Premiere, Street Theatre Company ClassAct Dramatics, November 2014); THE GROVE CITY PLAY (Preview, September 2014 / World Premiere, Summer 2015, Commissioned by the Grove City Historic Commission). Other plays in active development include: PATHOGENESIS (Reading, Nashville Repertory Theatre) and FRACKTURE (Workshop, TAGS New Play Project). Sony’s plays have also been seen and developed at 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 Region 2 Festival 45. AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: Scott McPherson Playwriting Award (2012); 2012-2013 Anthony Trisolini Graduate Fellowship; 2013-2014 Ingram New Works Lab Residency (Nashville Repertory Theatre). FILM: SEPARATION ANXIETY (Best Drama, 2012 Riverbend Film Festival) was produced by Glass City Films, starring Emmy-winner John Wesley Shipp and Drama Desk nominee Polly Adams. OTHER WRITING: “Hard Stop” (published by Outskirts Press under the pseudonym Jamie Rotham). Sony holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Ohio University and a B.A. in Film & Television from the University of Notre Dame. He has studied under playwrights Charles Smith, Erik Ramsey, and Kara Lee Corthron. Sony lives in central Ohio with his wife, where they are currently outnumbered 2-1 by their cats. Find him on Facebook, Twitter, and many social media sites under the handle @JeremyWrites.
