Recommended by Monica Cross

  • Monica Cross: The RAKEoning

    THE RAKEONING is delightful! It's funny and irreverent. It's dark and somewhat ominous. Daniel Prillaman ignites the imagination with this short play. Highly recommended!

    THE RAKEONING is delightful! It's funny and irreverent. It's dark and somewhat ominous. Daniel Prillaman ignites the imagination with this short play. Highly recommended!

  • Monica Cross: Matthew Weaver Without Words

    MATTHEW WEAVER WITHOUT WORDS is true to it's name. Telling the story only through Movement and Projections, Justin Guidroz shares with us the story of a character abandoned and ultimately re-imagined by her playwright, Matthew Weaver. Featuring a number of characters from Matthew Weaver's other work, this play whimsical and beautiful and a wonderful tribute to Matthew Weaver!

    MATTHEW WEAVER WITHOUT WORDS is true to it's name. Telling the story only through Movement and Projections, Justin Guidroz shares with us the story of a character abandoned and ultimately re-imagined by her playwright, Matthew Weaver. Featuring a number of characters from Matthew Weaver's other work, this play whimsical and beautiful and a wonderful tribute to Matthew Weaver!

  • Monica Cross: The Springboard, or: What a Play Is or Can Be or Will Be, or: a Thank-You Note to Matthew Weaver

    THE SPRINGBOARD is a delightful play about banishing the nay-sayers in your head. Steven G. Martin highlights the importance of supporting one another as artists!

    In addition to be a sweet and incredibly endearing play. THE SPRINGBOARD also serves as a reading list for the work of Matthew Weaver and Steven G. Martin. I know I certainly have some reading to do.

    Another fabulous Matthew Weaver play. BRAVO!

    THE SPRINGBOARD is a delightful play about banishing the nay-sayers in your head. Steven G. Martin highlights the importance of supporting one another as artists!

    In addition to be a sweet and incredibly endearing play. THE SPRINGBOARD also serves as a reading list for the work of Matthew Weaver and Steven G. Martin. I know I certainly have some reading to do.

    Another fabulous Matthew Weaver play. BRAVO!

  • Monica Cross: A MOST BRIEF AND ECONOMICAL THEATRICAL TEXT OFFERING AN INTERPRETATION AND VISION OF A ONE MATTHEW WEAVER, PLAYWRIGHT, JOURNALIST, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, FRIEND AND WHAT HE MEANS TO SO MANY ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 40TH REVOLUTION ASTRIDE THE CELESTIAL B-

    First of all, I would like to say that I did not realize that NPX has a limit. but it looks like Franky Gonzalez found it! Congrats to you on the FANTASTIC TITLE!

    A Fantastic title to fit a Fantastic play! This is so much in this single page play!

    There is so much love, so much kindness. This is a play about Matthew Weaver, but it's also a play about friendship! OUTSTANDING!

    I highly recommend this play! Whether you know Matthew Weaver or not, read this play! And if you don't know Matthew Weaver, check out his work, too!

    First of all, I would like to say that I did not realize that NPX has a limit. but it looks like Franky Gonzalez found it! Congrats to you on the FANTASTIC TITLE!

    A Fantastic title to fit a Fantastic play! This is so much in this single page play!

    There is so much love, so much kindness. This is a play about Matthew Weaver, but it's also a play about friendship! OUTSTANDING!

    I highly recommend this play! Whether you know Matthew Weaver or not, read this play! And if you don't know Matthew Weaver, check out his work, too!

  • Monica Cross: Consolation (a monologue)

    CONSOLATION is a dark comedy that says just as much with it's visuals as it does with it's words! A bathroom, bathrobe, running mascara, and bandages set the scene even before Melanie opens her mouth. But when she does, it'll knock the wind out of you. Scott Sickles packs emotion and comedy into this monologue! Great competition Monologue!

    CONSOLATION is a dark comedy that says just as much with it's visuals as it does with it's words! A bathroom, bathrobe, running mascara, and bandages set the scene even before Melanie opens her mouth. But when she does, it'll knock the wind out of you. Scott Sickles packs emotion and comedy into this monologue! Great competition Monologue!

  • Monica Cross: Matthew Weaver Finds Me

    What a whimsical play about friendship, birthdays, and a unicorn! MATTHEW WEAVER FINDS ME has two playwrights meet inside a play that one is writing for the other. Within this play, Jennifer O'Grady creates a space that is perfect celebration for Matthew Weaver. Another great Matthew Weaver play! Bravo!

    What a whimsical play about friendship, birthdays, and a unicorn! MATTHEW WEAVER FINDS ME has two playwrights meet inside a play that one is writing for the other. Within this play, Jennifer O'Grady creates a space that is perfect celebration for Matthew Weaver. Another great Matthew Weaver play! Bravo!

  • Monica Cross: Welcome to the Matthew Weaver Playwriting Museum (a monologue)

    WELCOME TO THE MATTHEW WEAVER PLAYWRITING MUSEUM has a woman (18-30) playing an older gentleman who is performing a museum introduction playing Matthew Weaver himself. If that isn't a beautiful set up, I don't know what is. Matthew Weaver is the master of Self-referential work! And play toys with that, plays with expectations and conventions, and gives us a little bit better glimpse into the man that is Matthew Weaver. Well Done!

    WELCOME TO THE MATTHEW WEAVER PLAYWRITING MUSEUM has a woman (18-30) playing an older gentleman who is performing a museum introduction playing Matthew Weaver himself. If that isn't a beautiful set up, I don't know what is. Matthew Weaver is the master of Self-referential work! And play toys with that, plays with expectations and conventions, and gives us a little bit better glimpse into the man that is Matthew Weaver. Well Done!

  • Monica Cross: Cheryl Bear is Reading All of My Plays on the New Play Exchange ( a monologue)

    CHERYL BEAR IS READING ALL OF MY PLAYS ON THE NEW PLAY EXCHANGE is about economy of language. Matthew Weaver exactly what we need without anything extra in this metatheatrical monologue.

    I mean sure, aren't we all waiting for Cheryl Bear to discover us and read our plays? Isn't that the new benchmark by which a playwright has 'arrived' at the New Play Exchange? (I'm joking... or am I?)

    This play is a celebration of that community, that awareness. It's a celebration of Matthew Weaver, and a toast (quite literally) to the amazing feat of reading Cheryl Bear has undertaken.

    CHERYL BEAR IS READING ALL OF MY PLAYS ON THE NEW PLAY EXCHANGE is about economy of language. Matthew Weaver exactly what we need without anything extra in this metatheatrical monologue.

    I mean sure, aren't we all waiting for Cheryl Bear to discover us and read our plays? Isn't that the new benchmark by which a playwright has 'arrived' at the New Play Exchange? (I'm joking... or am I?)

    This play is a celebration of that community, that awareness. It's a celebration of Matthew Weaver, and a toast (quite literally) to the amazing feat of reading Cheryl Bear has undertaken.

  • Monica Cross: Into Me (A Love Story)

    INTO ME (A LOVE STORY) is a fantastical love story (as the title suggests), full of passion and longing. This is my first foray into DC Cathro's work, and I look forward to many more. Beautiful, and immaculately well done!

    INTO ME (A LOVE STORY) is a fantastical love story (as the title suggests), full of passion and longing. This is my first foray into DC Cathro's work, and I look forward to many more. Beautiful, and immaculately well done!

  • Monica Cross: A Reputation (A Short Monologue About Matthew Weaver, Whom I Have Never Met and Hopefully Takes No Issue With the Existence of the Following Existential Musings)

    Would you write a play about about a person you don't know? Whose work you've never read? Daniel Prillaman did! And it is a testament to the reputation that Matthew Weaver has on NPX and in the playwriting community at large. A REPUTATION explores what it means to write and know other writers and engage with that discourse. Another great Matthew Weaver play! Well done, Daniel Prillaman! Congrats, Matthew Weaver!

    Would you write a play about about a person you don't know? Whose work you've never read? Daniel Prillaman did! And it is a testament to the reputation that Matthew Weaver has on NPX and in the playwriting community at large. A REPUTATION explores what it means to write and know other writers and engage with that discourse. Another great Matthew Weaver play! Well done, Daniel Prillaman! Congrats, Matthew Weaver!