Recommended by Derick Edgren Otero

  • THE WORDS OF ANTS has unparalleled precision. I can't wait to see a production of this beautiful, intricate play about loss and language, written by the smartest playwright I know.

    THE WORDS OF ANTS has unparalleled precision. I can't wait to see a production of this beautiful, intricate play about loss and language, written by the smartest playwright I know.

  • SALT TONGUE is gold. I don't even want to tell you anything about it—in hopes you will have the magical experience that I did hearing it for the first time. Just read it. Or better yet...produce it!

    SALT TONGUE is gold. I don't even want to tell you anything about it—in hopes you will have the magical experience that I did hearing it for the first time. Just read it. Or better yet...produce it!

  • Themes of friendship, queerness, power, environment, toxic masculinity, and art blend like watercolor in this magically simple and heartwarming play.

    Themes of friendship, queerness, power, environment, toxic masculinity, and art blend like watercolor in this magically simple and heartwarming play.

  • More plays ought to be this daring. As high-concept as this play is, ACTUALISM has managed to convince me that a new religion, the bastard child of rainbow capitalism and "spiritual-over-religious," is something not at all far off--or is already here.

    More plays ought to be this daring. As high-concept as this play is, ACTUALISM has managed to convince me that a new religion, the bastard child of rainbow capitalism and "spiritual-over-religious," is something not at all far off--or is already here.

  • I don't know a better play about ("about") haenyeos. Celine Song is naturally funny, smart, and inquisitive.

    I don't know a better play about ("about") haenyeos. Celine Song is naturally funny, smart, and inquisitive.

  • I think about this play so often. I love its landscape. Bleak is the word for it, but so is heartbreaking, and so is rock-n-roll!

    I think about this play so often. I love its landscape. Bleak is the word for it, but so is heartbreaking, and so is rock-n-roll!

  • Derick Edgren Otero: Girlish

    I didn't know I needed American Girl dolls in my life until I read this creepy-funny play.

    I didn't know I needed American Girl dolls in my life until I read this creepy-funny play.