Recommended by Rachel Bublitz

Hilarious and tragic, especially with what's happening with the government right now. Nachtrieb's dialogue is snappy and quick and funny as hell!

I am ready for so much more science fiction in our theaters! I caught the world premiere of "i" at Pioneer Theatre Company, it's a tender and funny play. It makes you think about the possibilities coming in our future with medical advancements, and the devastation those possibilities might create.

HOMER has tremendous depth for a ten-minute play. Walker gives us three distinct and developed characters in a hopeless situation. It has moments of humor, and moments of painful misery. Really well done.

A really fantastic ten minute play. Adams blends history in this piece beautifully, and creates an incredibly poignant and funny play that takes a look at feminism and intersectionality in a clever and interesting way.

THE BOOK OF WILL feels like a new Shakespeare. It’s a play that speaks to the ephemeral quality of theater; of being in the room breathing with artists and seeing a performance that’s unlike any that have happened in the past or will happen in the future, and of being in a show that you know one day must end. There’s also this sense of urgency and suspense, even though it’s a history play and we all know how it has to end, which is a mark of a brilliant writer.

A shocking play about family, trauma, and memory. THE GROWING TREE is able to go to very dark a places because the love and strength of the characters and their relationships allows an audience to go there. I also really loved the sense of place infused in the piece.

A really funny play that has gorgeous and hilarious specifics about living in San Francisco, and the beauty/limitations with long term monogamous relationships.

E. M. Lewis is my hero! In a time in which all the advice to playwrights is make it smaller; one set, no act breaks, small cast, she writes this beautiful and epic play that is the opposite of all of those things. The amount of research and specificity that went into this play is staggering. I laughed reading this play, I cried a lot reading this play, it is an urgent and essential piece of theater that should be being produced around the country right now. It has my highest recommendation.

GIFTED AND TALENTED is a hilarious play that tackles the problems within the public school system through jokes, mom-camaraderie, and well intentioned baked goods. I was lucky enough to catch a reading of the play at the 2018 Detroit New Works Festival and I know it'll be sticking in my brain for a long time to come. Sobieski gives us FIVE amazing roles for women, who are all complex and multifaceted characters, quick and brilliant dialogue, and specifics about life on the PTA that will make your skin crawl. HIGHLY recommend reading and producing this play!

I love both blueberry pie and the short monologue BLUEBERRY PIE by Rachel Bykowski. Both are sweet but what makes them great is their complexity, the bits of lemon and tartness that add depth. I was especially knocked out by these lines: "As you get older, you’re going give away a lot of yourself. And that’s okay, cause you’re a woman."

Really well written and now I have quite the hankering for pie...