Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

I saw this at Abrons Arts Center in 2015 and laughed uproariously with the rest of the sold out crowd. This is such a hilarious play about poop structured as a church service that really plays with the audience and our expectations with direct address and Bent's truly playful sense of humor. Unforgettable!

I seriously adore Clyt: or, The Bathtub Play for the ingenious ways Speckman takes us behind the scenes of the Oresteia to show us Clytemnestra's world. As we are today FINALLY waking up to the fact that there is a female side to these ancient tales, Speckman's Clyt is one of the most thrilling re-imaginings providing so much of what we never got to see for millenia! Curious about Helen of Troy? The truth about Cassandra? First rate roles for actors to explore and a spareness that directors will love. PRODUCE PRODUCE PRODUCE!

It is so important that we are all made aware of white privilege so that we can realize the inequities and change them, and Malakhow's Affinity Lunch Minutes is a marvelous way to hold the mirror up to this. I grew up in Penn Valley in a private school and recognize the world he's built to a tee! The verisimilitude and the drama put our blind liberalism on brilliant display! Kudos! I hope it is produced soon and often!

The Wicked One is a stunning play filled with beautiful scenes full of pathos and love. I loved the use of the masked figures and would love to see this staged. The roles are tremendous, nuanced and complex, actor-dreams! This is one of the most lyrical and intense dramas I've read in a long time.

I often wonder why people say they don't have time to write recommendations on NPX. HOW SAD! Because they are missing plays like VAGINA OF VENGEANCE. I am grateful to Tiffany Antone for her bizarre sense of humor and her fabulous comic timing and her thrilling imagination! From now one I will make more time to read more plays on NPX because THIS IS INSPIRATIONAL! LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS PLAY! ! ! ! !

As a playwright who lived this experience with a play that I wrote based on my travels in Gaza and the West Bank of Palestine during the first Intifada (now a period piece), I find SETTLEMENTS to be spot on, pitch perfect in exposing the corporate realities of most American theatres. Rozin writes with compassion - the characters are never 1-dimensional - and humor that helps these realities go down even as he breaks our hearts and reminds us of the limits of our art.

LOVE LOVE LOVE this PLAY! Grown-Ass Louis is someone we can all care deeply for! The language is great and the images just keep coming from the balloon with the manila card to the monogrammed robes to the dolphin, the images create the specificity that torments us into entering this world deeply and fully and therefore we have to feel. So there.

I love the Ancient Greeks! This retelling/reinterpretation of the story of Briseis and Chryseis is beautiful. We need all the female perspectives on war, rape, and human trafficking that we can get! So I am thrilled to recommend this one-act for its strong dramaturgical arc, exciting relationships, and the dialogue at the end is incredibly moving!

I love this fabulous play about consent. I think directors will love to direct it, and there are so many ways to be in it, it should be a lot of fun to perform and simple to produce. It would be great for high schools and also a wonderful addition to any 1-MInute Play Festival!

The most wonderful play! I'm blown away by Palmer's use of language & her abstractions that work to bring us closer to the piece, to defamiliarize it and make us lean in. I love the story! I identify w/ Theresa in so many ways I feel as if Palmer has put me onstage in a very naked state. She exposes how trapped we are in our histories and learned binary thinking and bodies! The attempts the characters make to free themselves sing to me of possibility and hope! Thank you forever for writing this play!