Recommended by Darcy Parker Bruce

We workshopped this play at the 2016 Sewanee Writers' Conference and I was floored by Catia's attention to the detail of language. Catia's writing ebbs and flows like water, and the opportunities to plunge both characters and audience into an ocean of tech are divine. Be it a teen heart throb or a sea monster, Catia weaves fascinating characters the audience will recognize immediately. Dark Down Deep is a beautiful play which explores gender roles and love and relationships and you should read it.

Danielle's writing is like music in the way that it escalates, building to a cacophony and still finding pockets of stillness. She tackles brutality with delicate language, allowing the play to breathe in a way that is frighteningly beautiful. We workshopped Dust at the 2016 Sewanee Writers' Conference, and it was a delight to spend time with this piece, and with Danielle. Dust is a haunting play that should find its way to a stage. If you have a few hours, and a nightlight- dive in.

I DON'T HAVE WORDS. Luckily Sarah DeLappe does, and they are never misused, and so precise. This is a play which really challenges what you can do on a stage. And it has so many roles for women. It's perfect. Pick it.

Holly has a wonderful and lyrical way with language, and her exploration of what it means to be separated from what you love and what you know is so precise. She weaves a beautiful world with characters at odds with one another, coming from different backgrounds and colliding with one another in unexpected ways. Her writing is both familiar as the stories we have known all our lives, and fresh. She's a writer to watch. I hope to see this beautiful play find its way to a stage.

Charming and beautiful and hard but necessary. I and You is important and lovely.

Stop everything and read this. Ophelia is so funny passionate and Meghan Brown has such a grace with her words that by the time you've finished reading Ophelia you'll only be hungry for more, which is perfect because she's written so many things for you to read. ALSO all of her plays are so well paced that the audience sits enchanted throughout, which is great because sometimes audiences are shuffly and no one really likes that paper rustle nonsense.

Bella gets it right. Not only does Speed Of Light tackle issues of morality and mortality, it does so while throwing some truly complex female characters together onstage. Bravo to a wonderful SPACE play which owns the final frontier while taking some pretty brilliant risks.

Such a beautiful play. I really admire MJ's ability to pose such multifaceted questions, trusting the audience to follow the threads. This play is funny, and makes you ache. It's also REALLY pretty onstage.

Perfect, and fast! A really fresh take on MB, while also a really original fresh voice. Totally new story which alludes to a classic.

Hoist is a play moving at breakneck speed and giving a bellowing voice to issues all too often overlooked. With fast paced dialogue which begs you to stare down incredibly complex and difficult themes, Hoist is a brilliant cross between Ingmar Bergman and The Gilmore Girls. Although often humorous, at its core Hoist is a story examining battle wounds that show no sign of fading.