Recommended by Asher Wyndham

This is your atypical Valentine's Day monologue. Every festival needs one about cheating. Why not?

Another winning monologue, a character that leaps off the page. Clear voice, clear worldview, clear values around love and marriage. A great role for a senior actor.

A surprising monologue set during Christmas-time. Devastating, disturbing, Donnelly's monologues excels at the emotional depth this story reveals in such a short amount of time. Without resorting to stereotype or caricature, Donnelly leaves it up to the actor to add layers to the character.

This is my favorite play starring actors as dogs. There is genuine emotion and conversation around feelings, being guarded and open to new experiences that makes this silly play a winning one. Put on some tails, get a bench, and grab a ball - and produce this play at your next comedy showcase! Connect with Krantz.

Carnes is one of the wackiest playwrights on NPX. Don't dismiss the back-and-forth of these two members of this strange social club on Zoom as pure nonsense. Yes, silliness every line, but there is true, beautiful dialog around making connections, having genuine conversation, even when the diverse topics include dogs, particles, and mathematics.

I had the pleasure of hearing an actor bring Auntie Patty alive on Zoom. Cortesi has created a stellar monologue with a captivating character, an older woman with a particular view of the world and people, with some wise things to say about risk-tasking and choice-making that commands our attention.

The pacing and the thought process, the fragments and word choice, all of it creates an emotional depth and an unsettling feeling in the reader. A haunting work that remains with you.

I had the pleasure of hearing a reading of this play on Zoom. Non-stop funny with a dynamic female character at the center. If you're considering a football-themed festival during Super Bowl month, you should consider Kimmel's play.

One of my favorite plays by Richter - it's a big play like the protagonist itself - an Orca whale - but only a few pages. Big in emotion, big in subject matter, big in environment themes. It's a genius idea to tackle the play's criticisms indirectly through an innocent creature. It's funny, it's cute (I'd love to see this in performance, even in Zoom), but ultimately a sad play that makes you reflect on abuses against animals and nature. We need more plays like this.

This is more than a reminder of the past, a snapshot of privilege and racism in the 1950s. It's a reminder that nothing much has changed in America. Women like Velma, seemingly harmless, seemingly nice, still exist and are ruining America. Not just a phone, not simply spying on a Black guest next door, it's toxic, it's un-American. You want to laugh at what she says, especially the dessert, but it shows you there's something rotten - sick, hateful - beneath the whip creamy, sweet persona. A perfect role for an older actor.