Recommended by Emily McClain

This was such a satisfying read! Szymkowicz captures the intensity with which college students experience all aspects of life, including romance (seems especially true of theatre majors). The scenes flow and just when you feel like you have a clear handle on the world, a truly brilliant twist. The all-female cast provides amazing opportunities for the performers across the board. Wonderful work!

I love a play that blends biology facts, historic references, and budding romance. Mabey's sweet short play all three with a gentle pace that allows the characters the space to be real people, and to experience vulnerability in such a beautiful, relatable way. You are rooting for these women from the first lines. Thank you for writing a LGBTQIA story that's simply joyful!

Absolutely brutal on the page, Martin delivers a character unleashing pent up emotions after 30 years of abuse and neglect. The fact that she's at the graves of the people who caused her pain doesn't lessen the impact of her words- if anything, it strengthens her position. She triumphed. She survived.

If ever there was a character more deserving of an origin story, it is the much-maligned Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Malone delivers a thrilling and complex period drama, packed to the brim with intrigue, swashbuckling, and a beautiful-but-doomed love story. The characters are accessible even to those without knowledge of Twelfth Night, but the Easter eggs within the text will delight fans of the original play. I really enjoyed it! This would be a fantastic piece for educational theatre programs to pair with a study or performance of Twelth Night.

I was extremely entertained by the personalities in Kendall's characters. You feel for Charlotte, having to massage the egos of her wealthy-but-less-intelligent classmates. But the parallels of Prometheus' desire to share knowledge, even if it angers the gods and Sisyphus' eternal struggle of pushing the boulder up the hill are shockingly clear and you want to tell Charlotte "Keep the fire for yourself! Let the boulder fall!"
The Zoom format provides humor and the dialogue is fast-paced- this would be an extremely fun piece to produce for high school or college students in the spring! Great work!

This play will upend your expectations and challenge your perception of what a "Zoom play" can be, all the while creating a complex and taut psychological thriller wrapped in a classic monster-movie package. Dooley's gift for snappy dialogue is on full display throughout this piece, and she adapts her story to the limitations of Zoom by turning those limits into opportunities for increasing tension and mounting terror. The ending leaves you aching for all the characters, but especially for Gina, who just wanted to see herself in the stories she loved. Beautiful and terrifying. Produce this play!

A wonderful celebration of perseverance and determination in the face of fear and self-doubt. Thank you for this lovely one act! Highly recommend! Buzz buzz!

Keep your tired "2020 is a dumpster fire" takes.

Read this play and enjoy the new, improved(?) metaphor for life in these "unprecendented times."

Amazing, funny, dark, relatable. All the things we've come to expect from Prillaman's work are expertly on display in this short play.

Like a beautiful painting brought to life, this wordless play builds a whole world in a few moments and creates a powerful visual metaphor for survival in the face of adversity. The relief of the final moments washes over you and leaves you with your own sense of gratitude at having shared in the story with the Survivor.

If the producers of the Great British Bake-off are looking for a fresh idea on their stale "Showstopper" challenges, perhaps they should check out this brilliant short play. DESSERTS gives the term "emotional eating" a whole new light. It's deliciously dark and enjoyable!