Recommended by Shaun Leisher

A terrifying play that also explores the immigrant experience and the desire to assimilate into American culture. Brilliant use of mythology and magic to craft such an honest story.

A delightful sci-fi short play that I'd love to see fully staged.

An exciting fantasy play that poses the question, "what if the animal world could fight back?" Shows how even the most well meaning environmentalist will always put their human needs before protecting nature.

A fascinating short study of what makes humans good and evil.

Love the whimsy of this play as it tackles a pretty heavy issue that so many LGBT+ youth face. Kids and adults need plays like this.

I absolutely love plays like this!! Plays about the power of storytelling. The telling of ancient stories and how we need to make new ones to make sense of ourselves currently. Ki brilliantly weaves the magical and natural in this wonderful story of finding our true selves and our true power.

Leave it to Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters to write a play about family trauma and identity that is unlike any play that treads these often traveled waters in the theatre. This is a ghost story where the magic is just understood as being something normal. It's a play that doesn't have a neat happy ending but concludes the way it needs to. People don't forgive and forget but they make space in their lives to understand each other a little more.

Kira Rockwell has become my go to playwright when I want some theatre that helps me deal with religious trauma. She is so incredible when it comes to pointing out organized religion's flaw and how it harms but also making space for empathy and understanding for its practitioners. The use of time jumps and other fantasy elements in this play make for a play that allows audiences reflect with our lead character and also be let in on her present healing process. It's a play that is needed for a generation of people the church has let down.

Pitch black comedy that goes some really deep places. It was really great to spend time with these young people as they try and figure out their identities as both a Jewish person and sexual being.

It feels like stories about sex workers have been part of theatre since the beginning of the mediums formation but never before have these women been given the agency over their own stories like this. A play that looks back at a horrible moment in history yet very much speaks to our current true crime obsessed society. Women like the ones in this play have for too long faced two deaths. The first being of their physical being and the second of their memory. For too long we have let men tell their stories and paint them as just victims.