Up Strung Down
A touching dramedy told through watercolors, bagels, and string. This fanciful story explores the push vs pull, ups vs downs, and the mystical vs the real aspects of life through a few relationships and worlds. This multiverse strips down magic to bare humanity and tests how people act and who they are beyond the place they're stuck in. Does where we come from define ourselves? Can we escape the lives we've always known and find peace through freedom? Or will we eventually find ourselves back to square one? "Up Strung Down" tests the lengths people go to to find their identity within themselves.
This show is the purest form of beauty. It intrigues you, it delights you, it disgusts you -- it makes you feel something.
- Bailey Jordan Garcia
This show is a gift, a gentle kiss on the cheek! It keeps you warm and high! Sometimes we need to travel to some other place to fully understand what we have and what we are missing and this magical and yet so realistic story goes through it. Our minds need to be open and our hearts be full of love, we are always in time to be reborn and be who we are without hiding for or from somebody. We have to be fearless and proud, let no one stop your journey, ever!! - Alessia Falvo
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The Tank, Co-produced by Fresh Binder Productions - Staged Reading - January 2024
Amplify - Staged Reading - October 2022
Amplify - Workshop - October 2022
UCSB - Workshop - July 2022
NIGHT NIGHT, ROGER ROGER
It's midnight, but that doesn't mean the world slows down. "Night Night, Roger Roger" by Roni Ragone is a comedic fanciful play about the world after the sun goes down. Roller skating Nanas, kids with tin cans, literary obsessed vampires, clumsy security guards, kids without tin cans, quirky game show hosts, and more. This play is a plea for every person to stop growing up so fast. Take your moment with the universe and enjoy it.
“I have been reading a satchel-load of plays recently, some of them reflecting the anxiousness of the pandemic, and some pushing against it. This delightful, starry, night of jesters type of play is the medicine we need to heal us. It reminds me of Maurice Sendak's 'In the Night Kitchen.' It made my heavy heart smile and dance.” - Vita Patrick Morales
Poster by Natalie DeSavia
Published by Dramatic Publishing Company
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Armuchee High School - April 2024
Buffalo Seminary - Full Production - March 2024
Abundant Grace Community Church - Full Production - March 2024
Arts & Communication Magnet Academy - Full Production - February 2024
Grant Union High School - Full Production - January 2024
Atlanta Jewish Academy - Full Production - December 2023
University of California, Santa Barbara - Full Production (Main Stage) - March 2023
Pascack Valley High School - Full Production - November 2021
College of Siskiyous - Full Production - April 2021
Young Artists Ensemble - Full Production - November 2020
Hillcrest Center for the Arts - Workshop - August 2020
Hillcrest Center for the Arts - Commission - August 2020
We’re All Girls Here
Told through an absurd and wacky world, this is the story of a teenage girl, Tubby, and her struggles with self-presentation as she's given advice by some well meaning and not so well meaning friends.
This play says so much in comparatively so little time, keenly observing just how arbitrary gender performance is, how restrictive societal expectations of such can be, and how ludicrous the collective overreaction to self-discovery can be when it does not meet those expectations. All this is done with the archetypical high school girls prepping in the bathroom scene as a springboard into broad physical humor, incisive wit, and, ultimately, profound beauty. - Stephen Fruchtman
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University of Evansville - Full Production - December 2022
47th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival (Top 30) - Staged Reading - August 2022
Moorpark College - Full Production - November 2020
Moorpark College - Workshop - March 2020
The Tree House Play
Susie and Stewart are in a fighting in (and sometimes just near) their kid's tree house, and they might get a divorce. The two battle with the weaponry in their surroundings while wondering "can we really work this out?"
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Amplify - Full Production - 2023
my barricade
Cam and Charlie deal with some of their issues as a couple after Cam slips and gets a light injury - Charlie is covered in blood from the man he loves, and Cam can't help but focus on himself.
Ragone's writing floats in poetry and lands in deep, connective resonance to our perceived ugliness and our true beauty. In this intimate two-hander, My Barricade asks us to examine the ways in which we deny our own beauty and asks us to step closer to each other in care as a result. Imperfect just as we are imperfect, these two individuals navigate their relationship and broader beauty standards in a raw and honest exchange. I'd love to see this again soon! - Ally Varitek
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The 48th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival - Top 30 - Staged Reading - August 2023
Doubles Festival - Staged Reading - January 2022
THE DULLING OF TEETH
A shark group therapy session - sharks in a human world trying to survive in a world where they aren't fully accepted by the people running it.
Poster by Bub Bray
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Doubles Festival - Staged Reading - January 2022
UCSB - Workshop - December 2021
BISQUE IN GLORY
(or RED RED RED LOBSTER)
Bisque in Glory is the comedic take about what happens when a diner runs out of lobster bisque. That's right: pure terror. Who will get the last bowl? Will the waitress ever start caring about this tragedy? Will the world ever be the same? Who knows! Romance. Horror. Lobsters. It's in their hands now...or...claws...
“ Wow! So ridiculous! Would be soooo much fun to stage! I gotta find a way to program this. Love it! I'm excited just thinking about the props - not to mention the dance sequences! So fun. “ - Elizabeth Andrews Zitelli
Poster by Madison Ragone
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Kent School - Full Production - February 2023
Doubles Festival - Staged Reading - January 2023
Moorpark College - Full Production - April 2020
Other Plays and Their Production Histories
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Panada Theatre - Full Production - August 2021
Moorpark College - Full Production - November/December 2019
Moorpark College - Workshop - March 2019
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Western Oregon University - Full Production - 2022
Southern Rep Theatre (Regional) - POP Up Playwriting Festival - Staged Reading - 2021
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Southern Rep Theatre (Regional) - POP Up Playwriting Festival - Staged Reading - 2021
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Amplify - 24 Hour Play Festival - Full Production - 2022
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** Musical Revue - Music curator, scene writer, director
Shrunken Heads - Full production - 2022
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Moorpark College - Full Production - 2021
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Hillcrest Center for the Arts - Full Production - 2020
Hillcrest Center for the Arts Commission - 2020
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BRITE - Full Production - 2020
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Moorpark College - Full Production - 2019
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Amplify - 24 Hour Playwriting Festival - Full Production - 2021
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Amplify - 24 Hour Play Festival - Full Production - 2022
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*Cowritten
Young Artists Forever - Full Production - 2020