Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

Oh man, this is why I have no desire to write screenplays. Poor Warren has his script about Ivan, a murderous polar bear from the Griffith Park Zoo, torn to shreds by Blake who, in true Hollywood fashion, wants to make the story about something else entirely. Their dialogue zips delightfully along, and I did NOT anticipate that turn! Nor did I realize that I would be googling 'Ivan the Terrible polar bear' and 'Griffith Park cursed' after finishing the play, but I did, and it was time well spent

I listened to Broken Arts Entertainment's production of this, and even in an audio-only format, the humor comes through so well. There are jokes and twists (and twists upon twists!) and the whole concept is just SO silly. What a fun (for us - scary for Ed) ride!

This short play is my favorite kind of bizarre. Corpses keep appearing in this couple's bed, and they just keep dealing with it. This play contains the events immediately following the discovery of the 8th corpse. It's very darkly funny, and I love how nothing is explained in clarifying detail. You get a quick, dispassionately delivered bit of information, and then the characters carry on, while you are left with SO MANY questions. Ingenious. I love it.

I recognize these people! Dinah's parents are nervous flyers who go through a very predictable (for Dinah) series of actions before boarding a flight. Like Dinah's new husband, Seth, we get to bear witness to it for the first time. The whole family comes across as endearingly quirky. What a great ensemble piece for a short play festival!

This short is so silly. A woman runs into a man in a coffee shop, feels they had a real connection, and then gives his description to the police sketch artist after she witnesses a robbery, in the hopes that the cops will track down this perfect man for her. All four characters in this short play have fun things to do, and it would be hilarious on its feet.

What a masterclass in escalation! Two old friends finally clear the air, and the confessions get worse and worse in the funniest way. Every time I thought, "Surely the other guy can't top THAT," the other guy always did. This short is a lot of fun.

A sci-fi rom-com? What a delight! This short shows all the dangers/misunderstandings that can result when a human and an extraterrestrial fall in love - some of which I had never even considered. This play is a fun twist on the sci-fi genre.

Ooooh the DRAMA. This short two-hander is so juicy: politics, scandal, mysterious late night 'walks,' disintegrating memory, and a ticking grandfather clock underscoring it all. This is the play-equivalent of a dark and stormy night. I love how the audience figures out the situation more and more as the dialogue between this husband and wife goes along, instead of being spoon-fed exposition. What an engaging ten minutes.

I have never encountered a play like this one - what a wholly original idea! This short in which one character has absorbed some of the memories of the other character feels like a dream itself. I love how memories are held in items (isn't that how it feels in real life too?) and the idea of a collective consciousness. SO neat.

Oh my goodness, this monologue. Garrett has worked so hard to turn his life around, but you can tell he still struggles internally and some days are tougher battles than others. The most amazing thing about this monologue is how you pick up on it without Garrett saying anything overtly. This kind of writing is an actor's dream.