Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Meet Me in the Endive, a 10-minute play

    Lovely slice of life, if your life includes the recent-dead showing up on occasion. I really enjoyed the relationships, one new, one old. This play is so human!

    Lovely slice of life, if your life includes the recent-dead showing up on occasion. I really enjoyed the relationships, one new, one old. This play is so human!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: MORNING ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Super-fun teen drama with lots of angst and anxiety. Love the characters and the language. Relatable and real.

    Super-fun teen drama with lots of angst and anxiety. Love the characters and the language. Relatable and real.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: The Pen

    A fabulous sci-fi thriller! The Pen (brilliantly titled) is the most fun political play ever! I hope it will get produced often because it is not only marvelously entertaining, it plays with language, is intensely theatrical, and it breaks all kinds of stereotypes and our hearts!

    A fabulous sci-fi thriller! The Pen (brilliantly titled) is the most fun political play ever! I hope it will get produced often because it is not only marvelously entertaining, it plays with language, is intensely theatrical, and it breaks all kinds of stereotypes and our hearts!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: GROWTH IN ISOLATION

    Growth in Isolation is such a lovely surprise! What a beautiful metaphor for growing apart. As we navigate all the different issues of this difficult time, this play really speaks to the struggles people are facing. Read it, produce it, repeat!

    Growth in Isolation is such a lovely surprise! What a beautiful metaphor for growing apart. As we navigate all the different issues of this difficult time, this play really speaks to the struggles people are facing. Read it, produce it, repeat!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Mind Control

    Great concept and so much fun with great roles for 2 of the 3 - this would be such a hit in a festival! I can see how it won the Sam French. Wonderful work! Easy to produce and would be a blast to direct! I can hear the laughter already, and I love how theatrical it is!

    Great concept and so much fun with great roles for 2 of the 3 - this would be such a hit in a festival! I can see how it won the Sam French. Wonderful work! Easy to produce and would be a blast to direct! I can hear the laughter already, and I love how theatrical it is!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: TIDINGS

    Stunning work where the metaphor of the putting up of the holiday lights as the activity works so well with the action of the piece so that we are moved both visually and emotionally as the play progresses. Here is an inter-generational period play that speaks to this moment and will continue to be relevant as long as there are wars. Read this! Produce this!

    Stunning work where the metaphor of the putting up of the holiday lights as the activity works so well with the action of the piece so that we are moved both visually and emotionally as the play progresses. Here is an inter-generational period play that speaks to this moment and will continue to be relevant as long as there are wars. Read this! Produce this!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Like Knives (monologue)

    I love this monologue that creates an entire world and is so dramatic and theatrical with so much at stake! Not only about ageism, it delves into sexism and lookism and the entitlement men think they can walk around displaying, and O'Grady puts all that and more - like tension! and character! There is so much to play with in this well-carved piece!

    I love this monologue that creates an entire world and is so dramatic and theatrical with so much at stake! Not only about ageism, it delves into sexism and lookism and the entitlement men think they can walk around displaying, and O'Grady puts all that and more - like tension! and character! There is so much to play with in this well-carved piece!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: We Were Such Idiots

    I love this play. It's really dark. Makes me feel good about my life. It's like an antidote for the hell I go through. If you are going through hell, try this! I think it should be produced regularly everywhere.

    I love this play. It's really dark. Makes me feel good about my life. It's like an antidote for the hell I go through. If you are going through hell, try this! I think it should be produced regularly everywhere.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Inevitable

    A really fun play that would be a blast to design/direct or be in - highly theatrical - even while it stays grounded in what is actually happening which turns out to be inevitable.

    A really fun play that would be a blast to design/direct or be in - highly theatrical - even while it stays grounded in what is actually happening which turns out to be inevitable.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Slow Jam

    Violette does a great job of creating triggers and moments of danger that drive the characters away from each other in this beautifully relatable play about intimacy after trauma. I also appreciate the title that spins several ways.

    Violette does a great job of creating triggers and moments of danger that drive the characters away from each other in this beautifully relatable play about intimacy after trauma. I also appreciate the title that spins several ways.