Recommended by Ryan Stevens

This script just oozes charm and charisma. A live-action cartoon about friendship, growing up, and the risks of doing what you love. Every scene is either gut-busting funny, eye-popping cool, or chest-clenching sad. The perfect script for energetic, creative ensembles!

Immediate, classic, and prophetic. A tender, funny, endearing, horrifying, and thoroughly theatrical look at the systems that bind us, the terrible prospect of freedom, and the danger of malicious education. Smith's script conjures, alchemy-like, an entire vivid and grim world with nothing but two actors and some incredible, incredible words.

This play is such a vivid, imaginative take on issues of theology, self-hate, and the strangehold of regressive ideologies. The Southern queer in me feels so seen and so thrilled by this play and the way it injects new energy and spirit into the setting that usually gets flattened out by people who haven't lived in the sticks.

Had the joy of seeing a virtual reading of this script through Kitchen Dog Theatre. For the first time since quarantine began, I felt actually engaged and invested in a virtual reading, so I can only imagine the stage magic Berryman's script will bind with a live audience. These characters are so alive, so electric, and so achingly human that we can't help but want them to succeed in these pivotal moments of teen-hood. This play reminds us what the value of pop culture is and how we all deserve the experience of youthful dreams.

Smith condenses what could be a full-length novel on revolutionary thought into twenty perfectly-constructed pages of childhood and revolt. Delivering profound truths on power and culture with the restrained confidence, letting the audience feel the full weight of what we're seeing and process it in our own minds. A disquieting, dazzling piece of theatre.

This play has stuck with me in a way few other works of fiction ever have. A compact world, an image of youth in crystal-clear focus, and an exploration of how we project meaning and the soul on the things that are important to us. This play ignites the imagination and burns right into your subconscious.

A rallying cry, a funeral for integrity, and an image of a future already happening. This parable of scientific crises and the way those who seek truth are muzzled by those in power reverberates with the power and resonance of a prophecy. Berryman's script is relentless and vicious in its ideas. This play is engineered with a diamond cutter's precision to be as devastating, well-expressed, and sincere as humanly possible.

An endless satisfying game of three-dimensional chess. This play lulls you in with the drama of academia and Shakespeare's histories, then springs its true cleverness and emotional power as all three characters grow closer and closer, ensuring the potency of the inevitable blow-up. A story of self-determination, family, and fearing the future, Queen of Sad Mischance is one of the most satisfying scripts I've encountered in a long time.

This play is an incredible, tender, and heart-breakingly sincere look at death, loss, and how we do and don't say goodbye. A compact, precise diamond of focused storytelling. Not a word is wasted, and not a moment misses its mark. This play is a must-produce and a must-see.

Fox's characters instantly feel real, and leap out of the fiction into your mind like you'd known them for years. The graceful and subtle conflicts between these charming, flawed, and fundamentally clear people ensnares you before you realize it, and the play's ultimate climax is all the more devastating because of it. This is fantastic story well-told!