Recommended by Jessi Pitts

A short, sweet, and spooky play about how important the approval is of those that we love. McVay's lilting local legend makes this piece chill you to the bone right before it warms your heart.

We love a manipulative character who half the time doesn't even realize they're being as manipulative as they are. Gordon fascinates me on so many levels, from his vision of what it means to apologize to why he does and says the things that he does. A fascinating study of relationships after trust has been shattered, and how dangerously subtle manipulation can be.

An absolutely thrilling and horrific story. McVay excels at writing multi-faceted characters who keep secrets from each other, the audience, and even from themselves. A truly well-done play.

A highly creative approach to a memory play; Chavez's piece is an excellent experimental work that uses puppets, poetry, and a very messy allegory of a room to explore the relationship of a non-binary individual with the people they care deeply about, as well as coming to terms with themselves.

There's something so magical about that brief span of time right before high school ends; where everything is ending, but the rest of life is just beginning. Gonzales captures this metamorphosis into adulthood with Sam's exploration of their gender as well as evaluating relationships with their family, friends, and with the world itself. Every character has a great deal of heart and truth in them, making this play a genuinely delightful read.

A beautiful look into some of the most crucial moments in a family's timeline; this expertly crafted play addresses the differences in the way that multiple generations and even siblings within the same generation experience cultural assimilation in their own way. Garvin's family rings with such clear truth in every detail of their relationships to each other and to the changing world around them.

Every second of this play provides new information, and creates a masterfully crafted study on how messy, difficult, and confusing these matters can be. It's heartbreaking to watch Lucy experience mistakes of her own doing and mistakes that are out of her hands. A thoughtful piece on rape culture that left me squirming with discomfort; which I have a feeling is exactly what is intended

I've never gasped so much during a ten minute play. Minimum THREE gasps. Leslie accomplishes an incredible family dynamic among three women in such a short time, and finds humor in literally the darkest of subjects. One of the truest dark comedies I've ever had the pleasure to read.

A breathtaking piece dealing with the greatest grief a parent can experience. An incredible mixture of scientifically accurate terms, poetry, and dark humor.

Femia's incredible two-person script takes you by the throat and refuses to let go until the very last page. I would highly recommend this piece, especially as a shining example of how to write a complex relationship between two adult sisters.