Recommended by Monica Cross

A delightful monologue from the point of view of the servant sent to warn Lady Macduff. These poor minor characters! Not epic heroes, just ordinary people mistakenly caught up in Shakespeare's plots. David Hansen gives them voices. In this blank verse monologue, we get to experience the confusion of a character who expected other characters to react like an normal person, not a tragic heroine, and the remorse of realizing too late that these characters never react the way you would expect. Poor guy! Well done, David!

I had the opportunity to see this performed (twice) by Miranda Jonte as a part of her Back Porch Theater.

40 QUESTIONS is a monologue about wanting. Wanting love, wanting recognition, wanting answers. As Miranda Jonte points out in her performances, this can be a piece of slow deliberate contemplation or a rapid fire confusion of thoughts, but it is always a high stakes, emotional pull.

Matthew Weaver's devastating vulnerability pulls you in and makes you want to give this character a great big hug!

This solo piece is great for performances on Zoom/Facebook/etc! 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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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.