I’ve had comedy writing published by the New Yorker and McSweeney’s, won the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival, and scripted award shows and benefit galas.
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Here are some comedy writing highlights:
The Protagonist’s Best Friend Would Like to Stop Having to Shoehorn So Much Exposition Into Their Dialogue (McSweeney’s; A Newsletter of Humorous Writing’s Top 15 Articles of 2022)
I’d Like To Have Kids, But I’m Not Sure It’s Ethical To Bring Children Into A World Where Their Dad Would Be Me (Points In Case; PIC’s Top 16 Articles of 2023 and A Newsletter of Humorous Writing’s Top 15 Articles of 2023)
How To Still Be Reminded Of Your Insignificance Even When Light Pollution Makes It Impossible To See The Stars (The New Yorker Daily Shouts)
In addition to my collaborations with Skylar Fox for our theatre company Nightdrive, I’ve written some plays on my own.
Bill is a narrator. Walter is a narrator, too. Stephen is a stagehand for narrators, but he wishes he were a narrator. Being a narrator is the best job in the world. But as these narrators’ myopic world begins to fold in on itself, and all they talk about is talking (and talking about talking), it becomes increasingly unclear which stories are worth telling—or worth living.
Narrators was performed at Classic Stage Company in August 2015 as part of the 40th Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival. It won the festival and is available for purchase and licensing from Concord Theatricals.
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Marie has a tomato. It’s a metaphor for her heart. When she’s decides she’s ready to give it to George, George unwittingly takes a bite. What metaphorical ramifications will this have for their budding romance? And—far more importantly—what real ramifications will Marie’s obsession with metaphor have for their budding romance?
The Tomato and the Onion premiered at the Source Festival in Washington, DC in June 2015. DC Theatre Scene said that “writer Simon Henriques has a knack for natural humor” and called the show “a case study in how to squeeze satisfying plot and character development into a scant ten minutes.”
I’ve written scripts for the American Theatre Wing’s Obie Awards, Ars Nova’s fundraising galas, and Project Sing Out!, a Webby Award-honored benefit for the Educational Theatre Foundation starring Whoopi Goldberg, Don Cheadle, Robin Roberts, and more.