Recommended by Jessi Pitts

  • how to clean your room (and remember all your trauma)
    20 Jun. 2019
    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.
  • (trans)formada
    27 Apr. 2019
    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.
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier
    24 Apr. 2019
    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.
  • Ripped
    11 Apr. 2019
    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
  • Ashes to Dust
    27 Mar. 2019
    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.
  • when a whale falls
    26 Mar. 2019
    A breathtaking piece dealing with the greatest grief a parent can experience. An incredible mixture of scientifically accurate terms, poetry, and dark humor.
  • Dust of the Street
    26 Mar. 2019
    This one-act explores identity and coping with the loss of a parent in the most beautiful way. Han's dialogue is natural and often hilarious, finding humor in the darkest of moments. An incredible and well crafted look into diasporic Corean-American identity.
  • The Violet Sisters
    7 Mar. 2019
    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.

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