←Recommendations of Tight End

A powerful piece addressing the toxic culture of sports and what one must do to be a champion. Well done.

A sports play that manages to go the extra mile to comment on the toxicity of sports culture, and the way gender roles can define people.

This lightning fast play hits you like a linebacker before you're ready for it. It's hilarious, poignant, and heartbreaking. It completely deconstructs ideas of what makes someone a winner and what roles we are and aren't allowed to play in our lives, all against the backdrop of small-town football, something that can feel like life or death to those caught up in it. Highly recommend checking this play out.

A quick and powerful full length. The characters are so compelling and I feel so much for Ash Smash. A hard look at football culture and toxic masculinity up close. I’m glad to see it’s been produced and hoping there are more productions in its future.

I read the sample instead of watching the superbowl as Rachel suggested. Good decision. Rachel has an ear for dialogue and I know the actors who get to play these characters are going to have a blast. I hope to read/see the full play beyond the sample. I can see why the NNPN picked it up for a development workshop. Well done!

This play was developed at The National New Play Network MFA Playwrights Workshop. This program, conducted annually in conjunction with The Kennedy Center and the National Center for New Plays, provides a graduate–level student playwright with an NNPN-affiliated director and dramaturg, a professional cast for a week of script development, and an introduction to the Network, its Membership, and programs.

This play is ferocious! Rachel is such an exciting writer with an ear for beautiful, complicated language and moral issues addressing gender that cut deep.