Recommended by Jordan Elizabeth

WOW. This play is a stunner, from beginning to end. It feels like the horror grandchild of Firefly in the very best possible way. AT THE BREAKAWAY had me guessing from beginning to end -- and while it's a successful scifi thriller set in the future, the heart of this play asks deep questions that are immediate to our moment in time... questions about armament, about military, about the choices governments give to individuals, and the cost of those choices. Beautiful, haunting, thrilling.

Hilarious, imaginative, weird, and wonderful -- FUMBLEWINTER is a must-read for anyone who has ever tried to run a meeting in corporate American; this play gave me some serious, nightmarish flashbacks. Great fun for designers and audiences alike. I can't wait to see this at the Inge festival!

Absolutely perfect: equal parts hysterical and horrifying, like living in a really funny nightmare. Terrific satire of the political climate of bickering, nonsense-talk, and straw-manning. And there are just so many quotable lines. PUMPKIN should be a part of every political short play festival -- the audience will be in hysterics during the performance, and deep in discussion afterwards.

"His platform includes a gnawing, undying, eldritch sense of dread..." This short horror comedy is the perfect non-partisan political satire. Hilarious, quick-witted, and fun, STRANGE AEONS AND FREE HOT DOGS would be a great addition to an evening of short horror plays.

A delightful repurposing of some classic prince/princess tales, told through a feminist lens. Fun, lively, and begging to be included in a festival of short plays.

What a fun, weird, wonderful mashup of genres and characters! This would be a blast to see onstage, and a super fun challenge for designers.

Spooky, surreal, and very cool -- I would love to see a production of this monologue, complete with the period dress!

Wyndham's plays always hit me in the gut -- because they're -funny-, these characters are so true, are so -serious- about themselves... until, suddenly, it's not funny anymore. Because his characters are desperate, and desperate people make desperate choices. I love Evangeline. I love Jackie. What they do to one another in this short play hurts: because Wyndham has given us dignity, humor, and grace -- and then the characters, in their desperation, snatch grace away from each other. Deeply heartbreaking and beautiful.

Partain captures the voice of a 16-year-old girl so perfectly and honestly -- I immediately love Anna, because I *knew* her, because I *was* her. All of the hopes, the thrills, the anxieties of being a teenage girl are perfectly sketched here; I felt transported into this moment in a way I didn't expect. Partain expertly moves us from beauty to horror -- this play is hard, but it is a necessary piece of theatre for this moment in time. These are the lives we're sacrificing: these hopes, these pulsing hormonal desires, these dreams of making the world sparkle.

This play ushered me through such a range of emotions in such a short space. The relationship between Jordan and Taylor is so authentic and honest from the first moment, which makes the end so powerful. Every part of this play feels uncomfortably close to home for me -- the female body in the corporate space, the male gaze through a camera lens, the relationship between three women of different but nearly-overlapping generations. Jordan is a woman stuck between the different elements of her identity. Simply: this play is saying a lot in little space. Read it. Produce it.