Recommended by Sharai Bohannon

I relate to this character as most of us do when we find ourselves struggling to remember who we are in a relationship that consumes us. I think it's a very smart play that brings up quite a few important nuggets in some very subtle ways.

I love the double entendres and that we have a woman OWNING her sexuality on stage the way her grandmother taught her to. I also love that her grandmother handed down a ton of wisdom that we don't typically expect from an older generation. This monologue is fun, sexy, feminist, and still somehow able to leave us wanting pie. Looking forward to reading more of Bykowski's work!

This play is terrifying. I still don't know how I feel other than mortified but I know it deserves to be read and discussed immediately. Webb gives us something akin to early Stephen King levels of tension and confusion within 10 minutes and I think this would be something for stage actors to really sink their teeth into.

This is a very fun, inspiring, and unpredictable short play. Webb is a master at dialogue and handles all of her characters with such care that it forces us to remember how fragile human beings really are. Looking forward to reading more of Webb's work!

This play is a straight up punch to your feelings. Webb captures an important moment between two siblings who are finally beginning to negotiate their final goodbye. Webb keeps us laughing and stays true to the sibling relationship while also reminding us that no one ever really knows how to say goodbye or grieve someone who is still with us. Looking forward to seeing more from this writer.

Turnage gives us a lot to unpack in this one. It approaches the intersection of sexuality and religion, asks what mentors owe of themselves to their mentees, and leaves us looking at self-acceptance is altered by how certain groups make others feel ashamed of simply existing. There is a lot here and I'd love to see more discussion around this play and perhaps get it into some schools to start some necessary dialogue.

This is a very jarring 10 minutes. I appreciate that Heinrich gives us enough of the world of the play to feel the tension surrounding the two characters we meet enough to make their shared situation feel that much more urgent.

Carnes manages to break our hearts in a very poetic, visual, and sincere one page moment. She not only tackles climate change but also connects it to the horrific immigration actions that this current administration is enacting. She does this with the grace, depth, and grounded work that I've come to expect and admire in her writing.

This short script is a punch to the gut. Matthews takes these horrible shootings and combines them with the worst parts of social media (and society as a whole) to reflect back to us a different tragic aspect of the black lives lost simply because they were black. I can't recommend this script enough and I applaud Matthews for being able to tackle tough topics in so few pages.

This monologue is IMPORTANT and deserves to be published, read, produced, and discussed across the nation! We need more plays challenging college students and the people in charge of these universities to step up and do something to stop assault from being part of the college experience for women. I also just adore Kira's language and the personality that comes across throughout.