Recommended by Adam Richter

  • The Prodigal Cow (a ten minute play)
    28 Mar. 2024
    This delightful and laugh-out-loud play takes on the biblical tale of the prodigal son, giving us the fatted calf's perspective on the whole matter. Along the way, Mark Harvey Levine gives the audience some thoughtful insights into duty, destiny and the age-old debate: Who has it worse: people or cows?
    "The Prodigal Cow" would be a great addition to any short play festival.
  • You love who you love: A monologue
    27 Mar. 2024
    More than a title, "You Love Who You Love" is a credo. Ryan Vaughan shows us the urgency of that message with every relationship on display in this heartfelt and beautiful monologue. Bryce takes us on a journey that is equal parts tender, suspenseful and humorous before giving way to a joyful ending.

    This is a remarkable monologue. I would. love to see it performed.
  • ART-ificial Intelligence - A 5-Minute Play
    14 Mar. 2024
    Debra A. Cole's brilliant play about artificial intelligence is unnerving because. the future that it envisions seems like it's right around the corner. How long before ChatGPT grows legs and inhabits a robotic body? I'd love to see this chilling and thought-provoking play in a festival of shorts.
  • Romeo & Her Sister
    9 Mar. 2024
    What a great story to bring to life! Jillian Blevins gives us a complex, compelling and often very funny play about sisters, the stage and the secrets that shape us. Blevins blends the language of Shakespeare with the language of 19th-century London as Charlotte, Susan and and the rest leap off the page and into our imagination in a story that modern audiences will not only relate to, but love.
  • The Polycule: A Comedy of Manners
    6 Mar. 2024
    "The Polycule" has a lot to say about the complexities of relationships — not just poly, but all kinds — and Jillian Blevins lovingly skewers them all in this laugh-out-loud, clever comedy of manners The rhyming couplets get along better than any two people on stage, adding to the humor and spirit of fun in this piece. Absolutely brilliant.
  • 28 Brains Later - A 5-Minute Play
    1 Mar. 2024
    A bittersweet and funny coda to a fun series of challenges by Debra A. Cole, whose talent for writing (and for writing fast) is a joy to behold.

    Now I’m hungry …
  • Get In The Fucking Robot
    25 Feb. 2024
    Sam Heyman is a master at getting right to the humanity and the heart of any theatrical situation, no matter how otherworldly the setting. Here he gives us a dystopian view of a future world at war with an unseen yet existential threat, distilling the conflict down to the touching friendship between two people affected by the horror. This is a terrific short that will fit in with any science fiction-themed short play festival and get audiences talking.
  • Let Lying Dogs Sleep
    25 Feb. 2024
    I love how the tone of this play goes from comic to cringey to comic seamlessly. What a great piece for two actors who would have a ball with the slow-building tension, followed by the rapid-fire volley of truth missiles fired from both sides. "Let Lying Dogs Sleep" is a terrific two-hander that audiences will love. Bravo!
  • I'd Do Anything For Love… But I Won't Do That: A TRIO of 1-Minute Plays
    21 Feb. 2024
    This trio of one-minute plays runs the gamut from the familiar to the ridiculous to the sublime (if you read them in order.) They each tell a beautiful story of relationships at various stages, and would work well as a set or as individual plays in a longer evening. A lovely response to an interesting play prompt.
  • The Geometry of You (a monologue)
    21 Feb. 2024
    I don't think I've ever read a monologue quite like this one. That seems like it could be an evergreen statement of all of Scott Sickles' works, but this is an exquisite piece with a remarkable twist in the end. A terrific solo work that would hook audiences.

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