Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

This timely short about two kids living on either side of US southern border is sweet and sad and hopeful in turn. Plays starring children are rarely as powerful as this one. This would be an amazing play to see live.

This didn't go where I thought it would! This fun short play starts with a quirky premise, zips along with clever banter and ends with a darkly comic surprise. I love how it drifts lightly along until the ending sneaks up on you.

Art humor! I love it. This short about a Renaissance painting of the Annunciation which is moved into the same room as the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, much to Mary's displeasure, is smart and funny and just an all-around clever piece. It deserves all the productions it's had and more!

I love quirky comedies, and this short is perfection! Marla and Joel have finished a successful first date, and Marla doesn't want to mess this up, so she's doing things differently with this guy - which Joel finds baffling. The dialogue in this piece is sharp and fast, and even on the page you can tell that this would be a blast both to watch and to perform.

This short play about office coworkers takes a sharp dark turn pretty quickly, and I am here for it! Sharp, dark comedy at its finest.

This short's clever portrayal of the afterlife has a very deep question at its core for a play whose dialogue feels so light and flows so smoothly. In addition to being so engaging, it's also very easy to stage, which makes it a great play for theater companies with a variety of budgets.

The twists! Every time I thought I knew where this short was going, it took a surprising turn. Fun and cathartic in equal measure!

This is hilarious. Some games last a long time, like Monopoly, and then there's THIS game, which has gone on forever and become part of Erin's identity. What a clever short with a button that is absolute perfection.

Well, I love this. Morey Norkin takes an awful chant and turns it into an amazing play, in which a white supremacist finds that he has, in fact, been replaced in the story of his life by a Jew. A Jewish grandma, to be precise. This short finds humor in a very unlikely place and is an absolute delight.

I didn't realize I needed a short play about Henry VIII in therapy, but here we are. I love how self-absorbed he is, and how he keeps repeating that he's the King of England. This poor therapist has her work cut out for her. What a fun, original piece!