Kevin Ray Works

03/11/2026

From global catastrophe to desperate kittens, read “Overture: Sound Collage Collapse” from NOISE/QUIET. Link in first comment. 🔥🐈

03/06/2026

A boy sits in a therapist’s office. Something sits in the corner. This is what theater does that essays can’t—it makes you feel.

A play in one session

02/24/2026

The fourth movement of NOISE / QUIET:
Lizard People — a satire about chaos and conspiracy.

A play about chaos and conspiracy

02/15/2026

The first three movements of NOISE/QUIET are now live:
• A soundscape of one day in America
• A realistic drama in a medical waiting room
• A darkly comic dystopia about banned books
Short plays about connection, information overload, and what happens when the noise wins.

Read on Substack:
https://open.substack.com/pub/kevinrayworks/p/noisequiet-a-cycle-of-short-plays?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Links to the other plays at the bottom of each post.

02/13/2026

At a recent reading, I shared one of the comedic pieces from NOISE/QUIET. Afterward, someone asked what else was in the cycle. When I described two women meeting in a medical waiting room—choosing kindness in a moment of fear—there was a hushed excitement in the room. Someone said: “I want to read that one.” Here it is.

A play about silence and continuity

02/03/2026

I'm publishing a cycle of short plays over on Substack. The first piece is out today and the rest will follow over the coming weeks.

From rejection to resurrection: how two plays became a cycle of sound and silence

01/20/2026

What does Nietzsche have to do with fairy fruit and vanishing children? Everything! I wrote about it in my latest essay on Substack.

How an overlooked novel from 1926, Nietzschean philosophy, and a grant award launched my most ambitious adventure yet