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DREAMER is a lifelong passion project and a semi-autobiographical story inspired by my own experiences growing up around addiction in my family. I felt compelled to tell this story in order to bring awareness to addiction and help destigmatize the disease. Addiction does not discriminate, and many people inherit generational patterns that are difficult to break. With opioid overdoses claiming more than 217 American lives each day, the urgency to tell stories about addiction and recovery feels more important than ever.
DREAMER explores how ambition, trauma, and escapism can intersect, particularly for people who feel deeply and dream big. At its core, the play asks whether dreamers can find a way not just to escape life, but to fully live it.
DREAMER is currently being workshopped at Brooklyn Art Haus and performed at Under St Marks Theater.
DREAMER PRODUCTION HISTORY
DREAMER is seeking producing partners for future stagings. For full script and inquiries, contact: sonsonallison@gmail.com.
DREAMER OUTLINE
DREAMER is a darkly humorous one-woman play
that blends storytelling, movement, and memory to follow Nina, a ballerina retracing the defining moments of her life. As she shifts between childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, Nina relives her earliest dreams of becoming the Sugar Plum Fairy while growing up in a home shaped by addiction and instability. As pressure, grief, and unresolved trauma build, she finds herself pulled into the very addiction she spent her life trying to outrun. Through hallucinations and moments of physical choreography, Nina confronts the ghosts of her father, brother, and younger self. After hitting rock bottom, she begins the difficult process of recovery and reclaiming her identity. Standing at the edge between ambition and self-destruction, Nina must confront the question at the heart of