THEATER
Interactive satire with songs. Planet Earth performs her final concert, in a night of music, humor, and glamour befitting a dying legend. World premiere June 2024, produced by Sacred Fools Theater Co., in the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
I’m Still Here
My Gift
Natural
Causes
Billionaires
Steps to Success
All tracks composed by Jonas Oppenheim and performed by Ryan Thomas Johnson.
Interactive guerrilla comedy. An unhinged revolutionary and a confused college student try to overthrow the government. Produced in parks, parking lots, backyards, and basements across America during the Bush and Trump administrations. Winner, Distinguished Achievement Award, LA Weekly Awards. Watch Fox News’ report from 2004 here.
Sci-fi sex comedy. Trevor and Penelope want a baby more than anything, but when their new water heater becomes a portal into another dimension, they find themselves on a space adventure to save all life on Earth—and their marriage. Premiered 2014 at Sacred Fools Theater. Watch a trailer here.
Musical street-theater comedy. Book co-written with Sam Precario. When Satan is laid off from Hell, he is hired by Lawrence Summers to break up Occupy Wall Street. A love letter to the Occupy movement. Performed in Zuccotti Park, NYC, and in the streets outside of both national presidential conventions, 2012. Listen to a song here:
God is Going Broke
Composed and performed by Jonas Oppenheim.
Interactive comedy. Robin and Randy Petraeus are a failed power couple throwing a self-help seminar, but it turns out they can’t help anyone—but maybe you can. Premiered 2010 at Sacred Fools Theater. Watch a trailer here.
Musical comedy. Bored Earth girl Echo can’t wait to get off this stupid planet. Then a fugitive alien rock and roll band arrives at her bus stop. Premiered 2008 at ArtWorks Theatre. Listen to a song here:
Dark Matters
Composed by Jonas Oppenheim and performed by Lucas Revolution, Alicyn Packard, Jennifer Fenten, Scott Palmason, Nakia Syvonne, Duncan Mackay, John Hanson, PJ Wyderka, and Rawn Erickson II.
The Clown Family Murders
Noir spoof. An incompetent gumshoe fumbles his way through a case involving a family of murderous circus clowns. Premiered 1999 at St. Mark’s Church, NYC. Winner, 2002 Peterson Emerging Playwright Competition.