Full Length
The TYPIST by Corey Ranson
*Official entry into the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 2017
Its 1943, the war is raging and we still don't know really which way things are going. Sofia a young girl lands a job with the war department, only to learn that she will be working with a group of girls on the condolence letters to the boys' families from the war. Tensions rise as Sofia learns that none of the letters are in any other language but English. With a Spanish background and knowing that not all families can speak English, she seeks out a solution that can never happen. With the strains of the job itself, and a boss who lays his own burdens in the way, Sofia, learns a lot more that she expected.
THE JONESES
A Comedy
By Corey Ranson
Hurricane Bob is coming in as a Category 5 and Elmer and Sissy have it all worked out. Since they don't have the means to evacuate or a place to go, they have decided to squat at Elmer's employer's house, the Joneses, since they have left town. Problem is the Joneses don't know. Visits from strangers, relatives and co-dependent friends What could go wrong? Well, the hurricane is really the last thing they have to worry about.
A Hard Time Swallowing
by Corey Ranson
The cup o love cafe sits in a small Texas town near the Gulf. As a swell from a potential tropical storm comes in, it seems all will be as normal until a visit from a woman who has been protesting the loss of her cop husband, disrupts everyone's meal, especially Esther, a customer at the cafe, who just so happens to have to know a little something about the cop's death
Reminders from God
by Corey Ranson
It is the year 2000. It is the story of a German Nazi Officer, Frank, who has come out of a 56-year experimental coma after having a car accident traveling back to Berlin for a week of liberty from his duties as a lieutenant on the Battlefields in Europe against the Allied forces. His wife who has since died made a secret deal to have this experiment done on him to help him survive. The experiment is a cryofreezing therapy, that allows the subject to be frozen while it receives supplements, food, so that the brain can have the time to heal from injury. He is 80 and his daughter Emily and son Seth are there when he finally awakes. They haven’t seen him since they were young children. His wife Anna has since died, twenty years prior to the date of the play from a stroke. Even his doctors’ have passed. Dr. Erickson, who is working with him now, has been a part of this for a short time and is also still learning about what these doctors were doing and why. Emily and Seth, try to figure things out from what mom wanted and to discover, what it was that Frank (Dad) truly knew.
Con-Joined
A lovely comedy by Corey Ranson
Conrad and Connie love each so much that they spend every waking moment together. What's wrong with that? Nothing, except that they have come to the belief that their love means going to an extreme. Physically being joined by not only love, but...surgery? Can this be done? Should it? If so, is it allowable? legal? Is this true love or insanity? After a strange excursion to a small area of Mexico, they believe it is the true and only way.
Stones in the Desert...Eterno
Written and Directed by Corey Ranson
Official entry into the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 2014
*Received Excellence in Playwriting from KCACTF
*Invited Read at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 2015 -
Region 6, San Angelo, TX
The story of the struggles and triumphs crossing the border from Mexico to Texas can bring for a young couple, an old man and his grandson and two young ladies running from the cartel. Getting across the border was the easy part, it's the surprises that awaits them in the desert.
Same as Sarah
Written and Directed by Corey Ranson
Official entry into the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 2012
*NOMINATED FOR THE David Mark Cohen National Play writing Award 2013
*Read at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 2013 - Region 6, Shreveport, LA
Ray and Erma are two ordinary people working ordinary jobs, getting by and living life, as everyone, until their life is turned upside down one afternoon; colliding them straight into the crossroads of the powerful and overwhelming underground mystery of human trafficking. Very quickly they learn that they are not the only ones hugely affected by this massive industry as they cope with finding their daughter.
Christmas Presents...Dan
An eager business man named Dan who works for a company and is trying to claw his way up. He does so and when getting to that point makes decisions that continue to isolate him from others. It is from a visit of a special person not yet in his life that helps him to see the error of his ways, even though we learn that some of them haven’t occurred yet.
Dan’s dream and his future lead us in and out of the play and since for some reason Christmas seems to bring out the not so good in us sometimes, it all hinges on the office Christmas parties that frame the times for all of the scenes of the play.
Lita’s House
Louisa, a young girl stumbles into an abandoned home on her street, only to discover that it is inhabited by yet another young girl, Lita, and her sickly grandmother. Through visits and a new found growing friendship the two girls realize and learn later that they both have something far more in coming than just what is on the surface
June bug Dozen Minus Nine
Farah Lee is a fun, rambunctious curious young girl who loves her "critters." Spending most of her time out in the backyard, Farah Lee, learns more about life than she could ever want from her "dysfunctional" family. With the help of Perfecto, her not so bright and somewhat slow neighbor, Her explorations of the "bug world" lead them to form a club. Little does she know her studies and explorations would be far more needed when she takes a journey into that very world, after a hit on the head.
Short Pieces
Las Cartas (the Letters) -One Act
(awaiting publication through the University of Texas)
Hispanic Playwriting Initiative Project, Texas A & M University, grant funded project, researching the stories of Hispanic women during WWII
Writers:
Corey Ranson, Head writer, student assistants/ co-writers and researchers:
Betsy Wallek, Michelle Flores, Christian Acevedo
PRODUCED at TAMUK and toured to KCACTF Festival Houston 2010
Reading at the Regional KCACTF Festival 2011
Committee’s Choice AWARD
Excellence in Playwriting AWARD
Collection of stories and interviews of the experiences and generations of Hispanic women and their every quiet role during the world's second War weaved through the lives of five woman, who are magnified at different times of their lives and history.
REVELATION
With all the disasters in the world, we all have questions for God on his reasons they were allowed to happen. Harry Sander's has that chance except, as he learns of it, no one else believes him. No one else but he can see and talk with God.
END
Tom has decided that ending his life is the only alternative left, since he has tried everything battling his terminal illness. He has gone to Zurich, which is the only place he knows he can get assistance with this matter, in the most legal way. He is completely prepared and has in detail gone through this with his family and himself. As the moment takes place, there is no turning back.
3days
The time is today. There are three days left; the solar explosion has consumed most of the planet. There are only few scattered throughout the planet. Five people come together in a discovered underground bunker. Forced to flesh out and come to grips with their remaining moments and what is truly important with what time they have left.
Works in progress
American Religion
The Hermanos
All Our Sins