Recommended by Shaun Leisher

  • Shaun Leisher: The Jersey Devil Is a Papi Chulo

    A classic farce filled with zany characters, mistaken identities and outright trickery that brilliantly skewers our current age of COVID, Latinx identity and "wokeness."

    A classic farce filled with zany characters, mistaken identities and outright trickery that brilliantly skewers our current age of COVID, Latinx identity and "wokeness."

  • Shaun Leisher: The Jersey Devil Is a Papi Chulo

    A classic farce filled with zany characters, mistaken identities and outright trickery that brilliantly skewers our current age of COVID, Latinx identity and "wokeness."

    A classic farce filled with zany characters, mistaken identities and outright trickery that brilliantly skewers our current age of COVID, Latinx identity and "wokeness."

  • Shaun Leisher: ÁNGEL Y CHUPI (The Reinvented Queer Tale of the Puerto Rican Chupacabra)

    A play about God and angels and demons. A play about the war between good and evil. Heaven and Hell. A play about two characters that have known each other for many, many lifetimes. This is an epic play. This is also a deeply intimate play. It's a love story about redemption and forgiveness. It's about our personal beliefs about justice and who is deserving of love. This play is full of rich dialogue and stunning imagery. A feast for the senses for every lucky audience member who will get to witness a production of this play.

    A play about God and angels and demons. A play about the war between good and evil. Heaven and Hell. A play about two characters that have known each other for many, many lifetimes. This is an epic play. This is also a deeply intimate play. It's a love story about redemption and forgiveness. It's about our personal beliefs about justice and who is deserving of love. This play is full of rich dialogue and stunning imagery. A feast for the senses for every lucky audience member who will get to witness a production of this play.

  • Shaun Leisher: OR OR OR &&&

    I've read a lot of plays about playwrights writing plays. I'm a fan of those plays. This is one of those plays and I'm in love with it. I love the endless imagination happening in this script. I love the various attempts by DANIEL to tell the story he wants and how it never quite works out. Stories can't be told neatly. Especially when that story is your own. I want a big theatre to do this play and make all the stage directions happen. Maybe at the National Theatre? They always seem to have water on their stage.

    I've read a lot of plays about playwrights writing plays. I'm a fan of those plays. This is one of those plays and I'm in love with it. I love the endless imagination happening in this script. I love the various attempts by DANIEL to tell the story he wants and how it never quite works out. Stories can't be told neatly. Especially when that story is your own. I want a big theatre to do this play and make all the stage directions happen. Maybe at the National Theatre? They always seem to have water on their stage.

  • Shaun Leisher: An Oddity Obsessive (or) The Oddities of Onyx's Obsessions

    Brilliant use of non-traditional play structure show what it's like for this character who is overcome by demons. A pure ghost story that's also about how people are not always as they come across.

    Brilliant use of non-traditional play structure show what it's like for this character who is overcome by demons. A pure ghost story that's also about how people are not always as they come across.

  • Shaun Leisher: Blue Roses

    Finally justice for Laura Wingfield. A play that completely honors its source material while also giving it a big middle finger.

    Finally justice for Laura Wingfield. A play that completely honors its source material while also giving it a big middle finger.

  • Shaun Leisher: solve for y in terms of

    Big fan of plays where characters have a tangible goal that's really about an existential problem they are trying to solve. Really fun short two-hander!!

    Big fan of plays where characters have a tangible goal that's really about an existential problem they are trying to solve. Really fun short two-hander!!

  • Shaun Leisher: standby/go

    Boundaries between two friends and colleagues are being tested in short two hander. Mueller looks at an ugly part of the theatre industry in such an authentic and complex way.

    Boundaries between two friends and colleagues are being tested in short two hander. Mueller looks at an ugly part of the theatre industry in such an authentic and complex way.

  • Shaun Leisher: Kill Shelter

    Wellman really know how to write non-traditional families!! Like the animals in the shelter, Colleen and Ellie feel like they've been forgotten by this world and I'm so glad that this play exists to tell their story. It's a play that breaks your heart but still gives a glimmer of hope.

    Wellman really know how to write non-traditional families!! Like the animals in the shelter, Colleen and Ellie feel like they've been forgotten by this world and I'm so glad that this play exists to tell their story. It's a play that breaks your heart but still gives a glimmer of hope.

  • Shaun Leisher: Mary, Mother of Monsters

    A great play about a part of history that so few know about. It's also a reflection on misogyny in the medical field and how women with mental health issues are so often abused. It's a tender play that features real moments of warmth between a woman and her creation. Whether or not said creation is real doesn't matter. More plays about jackalopes!!

    A great play about a part of history that so few know about. It's also a reflection on misogyny in the medical field and how women with mental health issues are so often abused. It's a tender play that features real moments of warmth between a woman and her creation. Whether or not said creation is real doesn't matter. More plays about jackalopes!!