Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: "The Leaf"

    Hilarity ensues when George and Edward fail to cover David's privates with the designated leaf. Sometimes making the absolute worst thing happen is the best way to thrill the audience, and Lawing does that here to great effect! But the consequences are even better! A wonderful short play for any festival!

    Hilarity ensues when George and Edward fail to cover David's privates with the designated leaf. Sometimes making the absolute worst thing happen is the best way to thrill the audience, and Lawing does that here to great effect! But the consequences are even better! A wonderful short play for any festival!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Envision

    Great concept pulled off brilliantly by Molly Wagner. Envision is wonderfully funny and hugely theatrical! I think it would be a blast to direct. And the questions posed and the ideas put forth are considerable, relatable and real. Great work!

    Great concept pulled off brilliantly by Molly Wagner. Envision is wonderfully funny and hugely theatrical! I think it would be a blast to direct. And the questions posed and the ideas put forth are considerable, relatable and real. Great work!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Pantyhose Play

    Wow - this one is so weird and hilarious, it's perfect! I wish more people would write plays like this - the theatre would be so much more fun!

    Wow - this one is so weird and hilarious, it's perfect! I wish more people would write plays like this - the theatre would be so much more fun!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Faked

    Fiendishly great monologue! What power this character wields. If you're up for a demonic role, this is the perfect piece to use for the audition. Wonderfully written.

    Fiendishly great monologue! What power this character wields. If you're up for a demonic role, this is the perfect piece to use for the audition. Wonderfully written.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Those Days Are Over

    I loved the dynamics, the twists and turns, and the unexpected depths to which this play goes as its layers form more and more nuanced meanings. Hilder has great facility in writing characters I truly care about and the moments that push them and pull them in all the directions during their grief. Fascinating play!

    I loved the dynamics, the twists and turns, and the unexpected depths to which this play goes as its layers form more and more nuanced meanings. Hilder has great facility in writing characters I truly care about and the moments that push them and pull them in all the directions during their grief. Fascinating play!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: In Mrs. Baker's Room

    Stunning and beautiful and oh my heart! This ten minute play is enormously moving and quite an accomplishment! I hope it graces many festival stages with its theatrical conceit and the way it deals so deftly with its difficult subject. Thank you Stephen Kaplan for this play that lets us all miss the people we miss and know they are with us still.

    Stunning and beautiful and oh my heart! This ten minute play is enormously moving and quite an accomplishment! I hope it graces many festival stages with its theatrical conceit and the way it deals so deftly with its difficult subject. Thank you Stephen Kaplan for this play that lets us all miss the people we miss and know they are with us still.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Sahi Vaqt Pe OR The One with the Biological Clock

    What a lovely play about 2 women in a relatively new relationship and their biological clocks! It's funny and sweet and relatable. There's some Hindi/Urdu that I don't understand, but it seems hugely playable especially because much of it is used for a mother/daughter cellphone convo which would be the same in any language (and the English "biological clock" is sprinkled throughout for context) and then it's heartwarming when the Shopkeeper chimes in, in either language, and especially at the end! Because our concern for the future is universal, and biological clocks are real and always...

    What a lovely play about 2 women in a relatively new relationship and their biological clocks! It's funny and sweet and relatable. There's some Hindi/Urdu that I don't understand, but it seems hugely playable especially because much of it is used for a mother/daughter cellphone convo which would be the same in any language (and the English "biological clock" is sprinkled throughout for context) and then it's heartwarming when the Shopkeeper chimes in, in either language, and especially at the end! Because our concern for the future is universal, and biological clocks are real and always ticking!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Ground Control to Baby Tom

    A wonderful look at the new world where in spite of the system, the people get to take matters into our own hands and make the best decision possible in the given circumstances. Kudos to McClain for being such a super problem-solver! 2 great female roles to sink some teeth into!

    A wonderful look at the new world where in spite of the system, the people get to take matters into our own hands and make the best decision possible in the given circumstances. Kudos to McClain for being such a super problem-solver! 2 great female roles to sink some teeth into!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: In the Ninth Month

    Wonderful journey in this super-fun ten minute play that must have been awesome in the Estrogenius Festival and would be perfect for any festival for its humor, its cringiness, and its awesome ending!!!! Read it and love it as much as I do!

    Wonderful journey in this super-fun ten minute play that must have been awesome in the Estrogenius Festival and would be perfect for any festival for its humor, its cringiness, and its awesome ending!!!! Read it and love it as much as I do!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Running in Circles Screaming

    What a beautiful play! Highly relatable, hugely realistic, and the question at its center kept pressing into me (like an elbow in my gut or a head butting up against my bladder) until it is answered in the end - oof! Shut my breeding mouth! Running in Circles Screaming makes me think twice.

    What a beautiful play! Highly relatable, hugely realistic, and the question at its center kept pressing into me (like an elbow in my gut or a head butting up against my bladder) until it is answered in the end - oof! Shut my breeding mouth! Running in Circles Screaming makes me think twice.