Recommended by Jerry Polner

In Abraham's Daughters, a cast of just five stands in for a whole world of missed intentions, short-sighted errors, and embarrassing relatives. It is a great joy to see Emma Goldman-Sherman paint on such a vast, wide canvass to give us this funny, heart-breaking, audacious play.

This is a biting, tough, hard-caper story with a killer ending. And a great role for a young woman. Produce this play!

In this funny and engaging new play, three very different women are suckered into becoming bunk-mates at a women-only retreat where they are chained to an impossible health regimen with questionable politics. Baby Camp is a hard-biting, deftly-targeted story that reminds us how easily our values can be compromised. Produce this play!

The Lucky Ones is a sad, funny, beautifully written play about a pair of mismatched friends who are not quite able to outrun the larger world around them. A jarring diagnosis from a barely cogent doctor forces each of the women to take on a new, discomforting role in their relationship. Produce this play!

A very funny and contemporary adaptation of the Don Juan story. Man of the Flesh features a rhyming narrator, an unrepentant Juan, and a full slate of women who are much more than victims. Wonderful comedy and great storytelling.

ANTS is a smart, funny, fast-moving comedy about a doctoral student who can't quite let go of the belief that her ant colony research will solve all her problems. The big sister she depends on is now out of work and her thesis adviser boss keeps holding her back. But it will all be fixed if only she can figure out how to make a lowly worker ant into a queen. A great read!

The 11-year-old voice in RED BIKE is a wonder of vivid images, flashing scenery, and things people wish for but will never have. There's a lot this young person doesn't understand, but she/he knows what the unknowns are -- all the things missing from the lives of the people in this small, sad town. RED BIKE is a voice poem masterwork.

Two nail salon co-workers who get great enjoyment out of disliking each other are compelled by the dying wish of their dearest customer to embark on a not very well planned out celebrity hunt. Donna Hoke’s comedy is very funny, very heartfelt, and very easy to stage. Produce this play!

In the true spirit of daytime soap operas, Cockeyed Today gives us a delicious bowl of office gossip, seasoned with spoiled careers and wrecked relationships. Donna Hoke's play is wisely funny, sad, and then funny again. A great read!

Four actors take turns playing an older couple in this funny and innovative love story about forbearance and patience. By making the casting of each scene into a game of chance, Rachael Carnes takes us into a new, off-balance world where we can’t predict what role we’ll be called on to play. A lovely piece of work all around. Produce this play!