Recommended by Lindsay Partain

A brilliant piece that really captures the personal and the communal loss. These storms, they take more than your trees, your homes-- it takes your smiles. There is so much energy and life and incredible nerve to be had here! It would be such an honor to play Rocio! Such a strong willed character with so much history and life! A page into this play and I felt as though I'd known her for years. Wonderful magic exists here-- read it immediately.

When the land that bore you can no longer safely be your home-- when the land you must call home cannot guarantee your safety-- Diaz-Marcano's MOTHER'S MILK covers hard ground in this 10-minute piece. It shows us our not-so-distant past and the future we hope to have. Lovely language throughout, fleshed out characters that must make big choices that have hard consequences, and a plot that is unique to say the least. Nelson beautifully reminds us all that when we cannot return home we can still carry it with us.

The tables have been turned in this tight 10-minute play where women make the rules. A relevant piece that is charming, unsettling, and has great roles for two actors up to the challenge. MY BODY gives a glimpse at an ideal world-- but for whom and at what cost?

The States is one of the more visceral plays I've read. Hill has done it again with this provocative piece filled with blood, sweat, and anger-- the push and the pull of abuse is perfectly displayed in its ugliest and truest form. Highly recommend!

POWERFUL. A fantastic piece for a high school student looking for a monologue that plays to a variety of levels. Heartbreak, excitement, disappointment, love, embarrassment, doubt-- Lucy Wang covers it all. Mabel is so powerful and I love stories like this where young women pick up their agency, hold it to their chest, and say "this is mine. this is more important than a boy". A truly excellent piece.

It is far too early for me to be holding back tears! I love it when I dive into a play with only the title to guide me. BATH TIME is a very sweet monologue sharing the tenderness, compassion, and the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter.

You mess with the manticore and you gon-get-BIT! I love it when I get a 1-minute play that delivers a juicy topic in a fun way. A really accessible play for anyone who somehow still doesn't understand what women are fighting for. This would be a great 1-minute for any festival and especially fun for designers looking for a unique challenge.

The way these two characters speak to each other is so sharp and almost musical. I love that these two women speak to each other with roughness-- there's nothing flowery about it which is rare for a piece designed for women. There is so much in this piece to uncover-- so much unsaid between the repetition and the subtly of the language.

MY HEART. This piece is so tragically beautiful-- and that last line--OOPH. Hit me right in the chest. A great short piece for any theatre doing short works about Gun Control or working with Protest Plays.

Bad-ass monologues for bad-ass women. You get cut a piece of life at it's rawest; the hard truth and the big pill to swallow. Great for a mature female looking for audition pieces.