Recommended by Asher Wyndham

Zaffarano has written another winning one-act that covers so much, develops relationships and revelations with quick dialog and outrageous humor. A pre-wedding comedy with an incredible ensemble of female friends that will have your audience laughing non-stop.

This play focusing on the action after a person wakes up from coma is surprisingly quick with dialog and pacing. Also there's protagonist (the one that was in the coma) confined to a bed who's never passive - she drives the plot forward as she deals with the blows of family change and shocking revelation. What a great one act for three actors. Perfect for beginning actors in college theatre and easy to produce for a professional one act festival.

The movement from setup to memory of trauma to its hopeful resolution results in an emotionally arresting monologue. A great addition to any festival on women's issues. If you produce such festivals it'd be smart to sign up this playwright for every festival. Goldman-Sherman does so much in a few pages, it forces you to try harder on your work.

A monologue as an eulogy, the first I've read in monologue form. It captures a memory so specific that it captures the essence of the person, so powerful like a Ko Un poem. We need more eulogies as testaments of incredible friends and loved ones who passed during the Covid pandemic -- and what better way than though the monologue form.

Impressive monologues, tightly structured, with specific detail that illuminates the character's emotional state while revealing our country during Covid.

When we found out this woman's true desire for scoring the right blender, it's heartbreaking. A monologue with a sting objective that gives an unexpected surprise. Read it, produce it for your short monologue festival.

Rarely in theater do we put on stage and express the views of hateful people without another voice in objection. It's so easy to not humanize them or find something we can empathize with. Here we discover beneath the hatred an aching heart. How can we can to people like this and bridge the divide? Highly recommend.

This is one of my favorite monologues on NPX. A docudrama that captures a voice of courage from our American past, and a monologue that can inspire change today, reminds us -- from various groups of protests, regardless of difference of race, culture, and region-- of our collective power against the true un-American, government forces against worker's safety and rights. What a great role for a woman in her 60s! A great piece for a festival on heroes from American history.

Monologues by Sickles always have a piercing quality to them, you're transfixed by his characters because the voices feel so authentic or stylized in a way that reveals heartache and real emotions that can't be dismissed. Another complex character, a rare one indeed, in a growing gallery of monologue characters. Enough for an evening of theatre.

Powerful stuff here in a gripping narrative of hate, racism, homophobia and shame from early age to adulthood for gay, plus-size Asian man. Pierces the heart with its details of traumatic episodes and hateful words. Sickles packs an emotional punch in so few words, it's impressive.