“ I just saw the Broken Nose production in Chicago. It has simple, elegant storytelling, strong characters and it's exciting, engaging, funny and surprising. Spotswood does a beautiful job of connecting the process of training to be a fighter with the ongoing process of figuring out how to self-advocate in real life. He also shows characters who are fighting to get better, feel better and take better care of one another. This is a hopeful and thoughtfully written play. ”

“ Mays cleverly skewers educated suburban white teachers who are irrationally attached to the notion of a "traditional" (ie white) Santa after a student asserts Santa is black (a factually sound statement since Santa is the parents, and parents come in every color). This play is a clever and biting send-up of the entrenched anti-blackness upheld by our educational system, a system which erases the lived experiences of children of color, punishing and silencing them. With a brilliantly funny face off between a black and white Santa each claiming to be "real " Mays exposes the weaponization of American cultural myths. ”

“ This elegant play is a meditation on the heartbreaking tradeoffs that new mothers face and the way this transition can impact marriage, career and sense of self. It's so important to have stories about what really happens when women have children from the point of view of women. This play is creative and surprising and heartwrenching. ”

“ This play brings together a young woman on the verge of adulthood with a group of women in their seventies who are trying to get empowered in a very deliberate way and find a place for themselves after lives spent as wives and mothers. This emotions this play creates are bittersweet because it's about how a desire to have more agency doesn't always mean we get to exercise it, at least not always in a grand way. The friendships between these women are beautiful and this all feels very real. These are stories of women we don't normally see. ”