Recommended by David Hansen

Langford's work is poetic and comic and cutting and brilliantly outlandish. With "How Blood Go" she takes studies into how black patients are treated poorly as compared to white patients by the medical establishment, and weaves it into a broader historic context. It's a startling satire on important historic themes, leavened with humor, compassion and style. Langford is a playwright who should be produced everywhere. Highly recommended!

This is such a warm and tender play, full of grief and longing. Bentley-Quinn has crafted a sextet of inter-twined relationships; loving, decent characters. A testament to the paths of grief and and the inevitability of change, and the hope that we can understand and survive the need to move forward into an uncertain future. This is a script which deserves continued production. Highly recommended!

Gonzales's play is a classic drawing room comedy of manners with additional contemporary relevance. I laughed out loud many times, the wordplay in this farce about class, race, and whiskey is truly delightful. Very funny! Highly recommended!

Belflower's play is a high school drama which excellently describes the familiar manner in which woman is still pitted against woman in American society, a society still haunted by its Puritanic roots, for the continued domination by men. The cracks are beginning to show, though the light shining through them remains dim. This is a hopeful story, but also realistic. There's so much work left to be done.

This script is tense, taut, humorous, dramatic, powerful, poetic, and devstating, and high schools everywhere should be producing this. Highly recommended!

An intense tale for the #metoo era, flashing with on-point modern lingua (it helps that I have teenagers in my house) old wrongs fuel present actions and the conclusion is tragic for everyone involved. A cutting teenage drama that literally takes place entirely in one high school bathroom, this is a must-produce for American high schools. Highly recommended!

A sequel to Dickens's classic, the son of Bob and Emily Cratchit is the director of the charitable organization left behind by Ebenezer Scrooge. Lockhart creates snappy, witty conversation, and peoples the story with characters original and familiar, a celebration of the world of non-profit and the pople in it. It's a new holiday classic!

Strayer's "Drowning Ophelia" is a survivor's tale, of a woman's journey to rise above the brokenness and betrayal one feels when abused by a beloved family member, one whose departure makes confrontation impossible. Ophelia never had the opportunity to confront her abuser, and so Hamlet gets to move forward feeling as though he got something wrong and feel bad about it. Strayer's protagonist also grapples to attain peace through action, fighting madness, and we're left to hope that she some day will. It is a strong narrative, poetically rendered, and I would be thrilled to one day experience a production.

Came for the title, stayed for the bitterness. Big ups for Rachel!

The Great Porn Caper is a playfully sordid road trip for disaffected Post-Millennials (can we stop saying "Gen Z" for God's sake) which roils with absurdity and loopy wordplay while also taking the piss out of Neo-Nazis, white trash, and Donald Trump, or did I just say the same thing three times. I would love to see a production of this play, preferably in a storefront theater with like twenty folding chairs for seats, and not just because I want to see young people in swimwear although that is part of it. Highly recommended!

WIth this script, Gwynn celebrates passion; passion for books, passion for reading, passion for writing, and passion for passion. She has created a lively little abbey, peopled with charming characters, each seeking their own garden of earthly delights. If only the world were more like this Benedictine cloister. It is a captivating play, one which I would love to see produced. Highly recommended!