Recommended by Tom Moran

A nuanced meditation on reality TV and how unreal it is, and just how twisted the family dynamic can become when it's all done for the camera. Compelling and believable throughout.

What a fascinating piece. It starts out with a fun and wildly entertaining clash of genres, but devolves into something much darker. It starts out silly and could have easily concluded that way. but O'Neill chooses a less obvious and more fraught path, and has created a play that I think will long linger in audiences' minds.

An intense, sad piece that builds up to a strong, affecting reveal. Though it deals with universal themes, it draws much of its power and effectiveness from being strongly rooted in a specific place and time.

A silly, breezy piece that lives up to the title. Radtke does a good job at writing a piece that is both a bad play and a self-aware critique of bad plays, and that leads to a convoluted but very satisfying reveal. Fun to read and would certainly be entertaining live.

Gibbs' piece starts out silly (and meta) and ends with an unexpected spurt of emotional honesty. Gibbs does a good job of modulating both, and crafting a substantial-yet-entirely-believable arc of change for a short play. So many plays about people separating never quite establish what brought them together in the first place, but "Interplanetary" shows how some of the things that attract us can also ultimately pull us apart.

A funny, well-crafted, and thoughtful meditation on what makes life worth living. Which is a hard thing to do in a 10-minute piece, but Dellagiarino pulls it off with a tight script, engaging characters and a plot that hums along at just the right tempo.

The term psychopath has (unsurprisingly) a pretty much universally negative connotation. So it's fascinating to see one both treated sympathetically and inserted into a love story. That bold choice has resulted in a well-crafted, tight narrative that raises a host of interesting philosophical questions and continually goes in surprising directions.

An imaginative look at the inner workings of the human body with a drak, dark ending. Ollett's play benefits by not dumbing itself down, revealing its unique setting only gradually. It also has some great moments as we see the cause and effect of some of the brain's actions on the "Body Corporate." Good fun.

A biting satire on bureaucracy that whisks the reader along into a horrifying but all-too-believable world where the purpose of bureaucracy (and its attendant acronyms) is to avoid executing any actual responsibilities. Funny, engaging, pointed, and relevant.

A surreal, (appropriately) dreamlike, frequently hilarious, and ultimately touching journey into innocence, loss, and growing up.