Roni
Ragone is a playwright who
specializes in dissecting human problems in absurd and mystical worlds.
Ragone’s short play We’re All Girls Here was selected and performed in
the top 30 for the 47th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play
Festival at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons. Ragone became
the first undergraduate student ever to have a play produced on the main stage
at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the 2022-2023 season with
their play Night Night, Roger Roger. This play was previously produced
at the College of Siskiyous, Pascack Valley High School and Young Artists
Ensemble. Short plays Hiding in Flowers and Security! were both performed
in Southern Rep Theatre’s Pop-Up Play Series in 2021, and their play Up
Strung Down was workshopped through Amplify in 2022. Ragone is one of the
co-creators of Doubles, a playwriting festival produced through The Initiative
for New and Reimagined Work. Ragone has been an intern for esteemed playwrights
such as James Still and Idris Goodwin through Risa Brainin's play workshop
initiative LAUNCH PAD, and as of 2023, is a graduate of UCSB with bachelor’s
degrees in English and theatre with a concentration in playwriting.
