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Patrick Vermillion

Recommended by Patrick Vermillion

  • Sterile Processing by Ava O'Dea
    6 Mar. 2024
    “ The sheer creativity in Ava's short ten minute play is astounding. Not only is the premise inventive and intriguing, but the characters are rich and full of depth. The play balances wildly different tones without losing a step - you can be horrified, saddened, and laughing all in the same minute. It all builds to something profound and original - surprising but inevitable. Everything you hope to see in a short piece. ”
  • crisis by Christian Flynn
    6 Mar. 2024
    “ A raw, unflinching, basement-core punk-rock play that flies off the page and punches you in the face. This is the kind of energetic, in your face, bare-knuckle playwriting that oldheads claim doesn't exist anymore. Christian is writing the sort of theater I want to see right now - stuff that surprises, delights, and disgusts. The kind of play you just want to be a part of - whether it's realizing these wildly dynamic characters as an actor or designing for the overwhelmingly specific but undeniably familiar locales. I can't wait to see this produced, it's gonna blow everyone away! ”
  • New Oleanna by Zach Barr
    6 Mar. 2024
    “ Zach Barr's masterfully written, brilliantly nuanced piece is more than just an inventive re-imagining of Mamet's controversial play, it's a biting indictment of the neoliberal hellscape that is undergraduate theater. Both characters are deeply flawed people, attempting to push outside of their comfort zone without hurting anyone along the way. But they are stuck in a collegiate system that prioritizes publicity and optics over the human beings inside - a system that pushes them against each other even as they try and find a solution. A really excellent piece that doesn't dismiss the original. If anything, it adds to it! ”
  • I'M NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS by Elliot Schiff
    3 Mar. 2024
    “ A genuinely idiosyncratic and deeply innovative work that uncovers rich new material in the inherent theatricality of making reality television. Elliot finds authenticity in exploring the most banal, repetitive, and artificial moments of the process while mining plenty of humor along the way. But the greatest accomplishment, in my opinion, is how Elliot is able to widen the scope of the play beyond onscreen talent - delivering multifaceted, complex, and specific characters from every leg of the process. Consequently, Elliot extends beyond the typical commentary of the soul-crushing entertainment industry into something much more truthful and human. Highly recommended. ”
  • Akrasia by Kate McMorran
    20 Feb. 2024
    “ There is perhaps no writer currently working who better understands the bizarre and absurd world of 21st century heterosexuality than Kate. The central two characters in this play are so incredibly well-realized and complex - undeniably flawed yet undoubtedly well-intentioned. The problems they encounter are so specific and yet feel so real - and it's endlessly compelling to watch them try and improve only to get in their own way. Kate never gives us easy answers or a clear moral path - instead allowing us to revel in the brilliant ambiguity of its premise. ”
  • Muted. by Zack Peercy
    20 Feb. 2024
    “ Muted is a play about the ways in which we are tied to the people who leave too soon - whether they were close family members or an old classmate crush. It's about a very specific type of haunting - a form of guilt that is as inexplicable and unsolvable as the death that originates it. What do we owe the ghosts who live in our head? How do we live up to the opportunities we are given that they never had? A play that reaffirms how kindness is necessary in a cruel and indifferent world. ”
  • Mother Of by Katherine Gwynn
    20 Feb. 2024
    “ A play that responds and defines our current moment - it is contemporary but not reactionary. A play about religion that finds fresh relevance and intriguing questions within centuries of tradition. It is emotional and gripping but not without moments of humor and lightness. Katherine's writing is so clear and defined it's impossible to not envision the beauty that is bound to emerge from a fully realized production. The kind of play we all yearn to see - where the conversations afterwards are just as thrilling and compelling as the time we spent with the performance. ”
  • Underworld by Maddie Kovach
    19 Feb. 2024
    “ An immensely rich and sensitive look at the often-overlooked effects of growing up with religious trauma. Maddie imbues each of her characters with a complexity and depth that is so rarely seen in writing about young people. Her play is composed of small, sensitive moments of beauty that build and swell into something much bigger and more profound. A play for anyone who's ever lived with the fear, guilt, and depression that comes when your desires act in direct opposition to your beliefs. A must-read for anyone who grew up Catholic and is still processing it. I love this play! ”
  • Stinky Girls by Kelsey Sullivan
    21 Nov. 2023
    “ I had the privilege of seeing this play go up three times in three separate audiences and you've never seen a room be so alive. In theater I'm always looking for plays that break the rules of what audiences expect. This is a perfect example. The kind of play that inspires me, not just because it's brilliant, but because it opens pathways for what we can portray on stage and how we can do it. Funny, f*cked-up, gross as hell, and endearing all in ten minutes. ”
  • Kubrickian by Zack Peercy
    4 Nov. 2023
    “ As our jobs become more meaningless and our sense of community disappears, we are increasingly left with little to identify ourselves with other than our taste in movies. Zack has recognized this trend and uses this play to explore how much our generation's memories, values, and intelligence exist in relation to the media we consume. A play that is both curious and truthful in what it explores. As damning a reflection of modern masculinity as it is delicate a portrait of male friendship in an age of profound loneliness. As a lifelong Kubrick-head, I loved it. ”

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