Recommended by Steven G. Martin

This is a perfect 10-minute play about New Year's Eve, about possibilities and uncertainties.

It's almost too much to consider what the future may hold, especially on December 31. It's exhilarating that Rachel Lynett dramatizes multiple possibilities for Massiel's life -- and not all of them pleasant -- in this 10-minute play through wonderful visuals and plot structure.

Nandita Shenoy absolutely captures how to tell a story using Zoom or other screen-based virtual communication. But what especially shines in this 10-minute play is the story, the characters, and their relationship that she dramatizes.

"To the Stars with Love" showcases wistful, emotional characters who cannot be together. To make things even more emotional for the audience, Shenoy shows that they would be good for one another when she allows them to reminisce fondly on their shared past.

World building, characterization, dialogue and subtext, platform -- Shenoy has written a must-read, must-watch, must-produce play.

Playwrights on assignment are like an exotic plant in a mundane lawn -- wildly out-of-place, difficult not to stare at, and creating more than a bit of drama. Also: fascinating.

Bennett's short comedy "Assigned Blessing" is a loving portrait of two new, blinkered playwrights on assignment and the chaos that ensues -- mostly for their subject. It's a warm-hearted comedy that deserves the production and award history it has garnered so far.

I love the big, sprawling, a little messy, a little chaotic, somewhat patchwork but completely unified epic nature of this genius collection!

The individual plays are about Matthew Weaver. The sum is about storytelling and the tools we use to tell stories, it is about how different perspectives can still tell the truth, it is about community coalescing, it is about playfulness and seriousness and romance and comedy and drama.

Unique & unified, but also individualistic. It's so many things.

Cristina Luzárraga has written a genuinely funny 10-minute farce that'll make audiences laugh out loud.

"Egg Timer" is almost a fever dream, given the characters and the dialogue. But credit Luzárraga for the slight tonal change at the end, too. This is a fantastic "What if?"-premise play.

Structure, setting, and characters' history are at the forefront of this play filled with irony, hope, and disillusionment.

Sara Jean Accuardi has created characters who are all on the brink of starting new, not only a new year but also new opportunities. Their fear and excitement are palpable. Audiences, though, already know how some stories will turn out, and this dramatic irony only makes those characters' emotions more intense.

Pay attention to everything in "The Delays." There isn't a wasted action or line of dialogue.

I'm in tears.

Burbano writes with so much precision not only about the tragic facts of this loss, but how Andie feels when thinking about this loss. So many details in such a short amount of time on stage that an audience will be in tears about how life can become so unfair, devastating, and senseless so quickly. And how living through it may be impossible.

An intense, honest, unflinching drama that shows a nuanced, fully dimensional life reduced by bickering and potshots in fewer than 280 characters. Produce this play.

An audience will ache for 17-year-old Jamal, who starts idealized and ends disillusioned after being demonized, deified, dragged through the mud and put on a pedestal. All nuance of his life and his tragedy, left behind in the Great American Pastime of piling on via social media.

Comedic, chaotic, anarchic lunacy in a minute.

You are not prepared for Prillaman's "A Short Visual Aid ... 2020." Enjoy!

Intellectual and emotional explorations of pray and prayer, praying and preying, juxtaposed with one another. Filled with cleverness, intellect, and heartache in equal amounts.

Emily McClain has created something unique with her "Triptych on Praying" and other triptychs she has written. I have to imagine directors, designers, actors loving to explore production possibilities.