Unnamed Truths
Terrence Owen Sherry is a playwright based in Orange, California. His first play, “Strange Bedfellows,” has been produced by the Open-Door Playhouse for audio streaming release. “The Advent,” his third play, was a semifinalist at the LaBute New Theater Festival. He is both a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Orange County Playwrights Alliance. He is a playwright of Absences, Aftermaths, Almosts, and Accountabilities. His scholarly work is in ethics, hermeneutics, and narratives as emotional identity.
Selected Plays
"exploring the unspoken truths of human interaction"
Strange Bedfellows:
The Night John Adams Slept with Benjamin Franklin
The Two Victims
A documented argument over a window becomes the argument over the
country itself — liberty versus protection, openness versus order — in a comedy that pauses, once, for two fathers to recognize their shared humanity.
Sherlock Holmes solves the Ripper case and discovers the killer is the last person he can afford to name. A Victorian thriller where catching the murderer is just the beginning of the problem.
The Advent
Over two Mondays in Advent, a weary pastor and a searching woman circle an attraction neither will act on. A play about the relationship that does not happen, and the grace in letting it go.
Semifinalist, LaBute New Theater Festival, 2026.
I Thought He Looked Good
After the funeral of a former in-law, an extended family talks around one death and slowly exhumes another—and the harm done to a son that no one would let themselves see.
Repositioning
As a man dies in home hospice, the people at his bedside reposition themselves around his money, his myth, and the love he kept in quotation marks.
The Castle at Avalon Court
At a suburban block party with a bouncy castle, a self-congratulating community fails to notice the predator in its midst — a dark tragicomedy on a load-bearing Arthurian substrate, with an immersive interval that morally implicates the audience.
V-Day
A ten-minute monologue about inheritance, in which a son discovers he
has become his father in every way that matters, and grieves him in the only language they ever shared: the joke.
Academic Background
M.Div. (Yale)
Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut
M.Th. (Edinburgh)
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Ph.D. (Claremont)
Claremont Graduate University, California
Paul Harris Fellowship
Rotary International, Rotary Foundation
Connect with the Writer
For inquiries regarding Terrence Owen Sherry's literary works, upcoming productions, or academic collaborations, please reach out directly. His work explores the unspoken truths of human interaction through the lens of dramatic literature.