Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Bite Me

    This play kept me on my toes with its realness, its depth, its 3-dimensional characters, its dialogue that is a treat for actors to play. I am completely impressed by how far Pipes goes to push the characters toward an incredibly satisfying conclusion. Wow!

    This play kept me on my toes with its realness, its depth, its 3-dimensional characters, its dialogue that is a treat for actors to play. I am completely impressed by how far Pipes goes to push the characters toward an incredibly satisfying conclusion. Wow!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: 18

    Great work. Intense, pulls the audience into the piece and never lets us go. Theatrical language, easily producible, unforgettable work. I highly recommend this moving piece about mass incarceration of Black youth, tragic and well crafted. I hope it gets produced everywhere. A must-see.

    Great work. Intense, pulls the audience into the piece and never lets us go. Theatrical language, easily producible, unforgettable work. I highly recommend this moving piece about mass incarceration of Black youth, tragic and well crafted. I hope it gets produced everywhere. A must-see.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: THE FERRIS WHEEL - a short play for both stage and radio

    Beautiful work with such well-written characters. Actors will have a great time with this! Moving and real, full of life and emotion. Well done!

    Beautiful work with such well-written characters. Actors will have a great time with this! Moving and real, full of life and emotion. Well done!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: world is a fuck

    Wonderfully theatrical work. The American Suburbs deserves this play and all it dishes out, fuck by fuck.

    Wonderfully theatrical work. The American Suburbs deserves this play and all it dishes out, fuck by fuck.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: TELL ME I'M GORGEOUS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, The Last Gay Play

    Beautifully written and yes, gorgeous! This satire of gay plays is moving and thrilling, and I hope it gets produced soon. I would love to see it! The structure and smarts, the fabulous funny... Read it and enjoy!

    Beautifully written and yes, gorgeous! This satire of gay plays is moving and thrilling, and I hope it gets produced soon. I would love to see it! The structure and smarts, the fabulous funny... Read it and enjoy!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Hangups

    Real and lovely and perfect for Zoom. The title resonates in several ways. Groustra has a knack for dialogue that moves quickly and creates rhythms the actors would have a great time performing. I look forward to reading more of Groustra's work.

    Real and lovely and perfect for Zoom. The title resonates in several ways. Groustra has a knack for dialogue that moves quickly and creates rhythms the actors would have a great time performing. I look forward to reading more of Groustra's work.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Rite of Passage

    Wonderful and heart-warming, how to manage very hard things with grace and humor. The characters are in turmoil and the stakes are high. I appreciate the autism depicted in a way that really felt true to my own autistic experience and resonates for me along with the loss and the grief and confusion for a young person to deal with loss... what a beautiful play!

    Wonderful and heart-warming, how to manage very hard things with grace and humor. The characters are in turmoil and the stakes are high. I appreciate the autism depicted in a way that really felt true to my own autistic experience and resonates for me along with the loss and the grief and confusion for a young person to deal with loss... what a beautiful play!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Why the Hell is it so Hard to Write a Recommendation on NPX? A Monologue

    As another neurodivergent playwright, I think this is uproarious! And being hyper-lexic (as part of my neurodivergence), I don't have any problem writing recommendations, but I can imagine that some people do. And Izzy Salant captures this in a radiant way that makes me laugh and smile and relax for a minute instead of holding my breath like I do, so maybe extending my life! This monologue spoke to me, and I'm recommending it easily and with a lot of words!

    As another neurodivergent playwright, I think this is uproarious! And being hyper-lexic (as part of my neurodivergence), I don't have any problem writing recommendations, but I can imagine that some people do. And Izzy Salant captures this in a radiant way that makes me laugh and smile and relax for a minute instead of holding my breath like I do, so maybe extending my life! This monologue spoke to me, and I'm recommending it easily and with a lot of words!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Simon Says

    I've always wondered about Simon Says, and now I know the truth. Moughon has a brilliant mind. This is a super-creepy play!

    I've always wondered about Simon Says, and now I know the truth. Moughon has a brilliant mind. This is a super-creepy play!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: The Lesbian Play

    What an intense and theatrical piece this is! McCarthy manages to maintain so much tension throughout, continuously raises the stakes and keeps them high in this ensemble drama that kept me on edge all night! The characters are specific and driven. A disturbing play that isn't afraid of confrontation.

    What an intense and theatrical piece this is! McCarthy manages to maintain so much tension throughout, continuously raises the stakes and keeps them high in this ensemble drama that kept me on edge all night! The characters are specific and driven. A disturbing play that isn't afraid of confrontation.