Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

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

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!

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!

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!

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!

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 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.

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.

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.

The pain that drives Alby, in this beautifully rendered character study, is pain we can all relate to, and Malone has done a great job maintaining the tension that drives this play forward to its inevitable end in order for us to recognize that pain and understand - to a greater extent than usual - what is generally incomprehensible to us all. Well done!