Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

This short comedy is a reminder that peer pressure never stops - not even when you're in your 70s and your friend is trying to convince you to go to a strip club for a bachelorette party. What a fun play for two older actresses! Instead of dying of dementia (as so many characters for older actors), they are arguing over whether or not they should go to a strip club to celebrate their friend's upcoming wedding. I love, love, love seeing older characters living like this!

This short is a treasure. Jesus, Peter, and Paul are imprisoned together, Jesus makes pot brownies to calm their nerves, and the entire play is a delight. I love the mix of Biblical and modern language ("Would you calm thy country ass down?"), and any audience would be helpless not to laugh along at their sheer delight and silly jokes as they get gigglier and gigglier. This play is my favorite combination of very smart and very silly.

Spooky!! You just KNOW that no good will come of this cold, wintry, late-night encounter at a motel, and you spend the whole time waiting for that other shoe to drop... So suspenseful! What a dream for a light and sound team.

Craziest writers' retreat ever! This premise reminds me of Clue, if all the guests were writers, and if Clue were a thriller: A bunch of writers have been invited to a reception-less island on Lake Superior where they are tasked with looking for clues to solve an unsolved murder which took place on the island in 1899, and then they need to write a short story about it by the end of the weekend. I loved how each character had a distinct voice and how I truly didn't know what would happen next!

Oooh this short is so clever! I love the distinct character voices and how the whole thing plays out (especially the end!) Also what a fun challenge for the actors playing the angel and the demon, to get to do all their acting with their faces and bodies, never uttering a word.

The pacing in this short comedy is great. You know something isn't quite right, and the hints/reveals drip out at the perfect speed as the full situation slowly takes shape. This is a great piece for comedic actors, with amazing opportunities for both verbal and physical humor.

I read this one for the title, and it was as wonderfully ridiculous as I hoped it would be! I was on board from the character descriptions. There are so many wonderful opportunities for physical comedy in here. A trio of comedic actors would have an absolute field day with this short. So delightfully bonkers!

The satire is SHARP with this one. This short play about America's love of the Second Amendment is an absolutely merciless four pages. I love it.

This is a sweet little play about mercy, kindness, and fresh starts. I love how flabbergasted and distrustful Mr. Man is of the way the child greeters are welcoming him to his afterlife experience, given how he lived his life on Earth. It would also be fun for a pair of child actors to get to play the ones in charge!

This short is adooooorable. Two strangers strike up a conversation in a laundromat, and it goes to some delightful places as they make discoveries about each other. What a great example of what a short play can be: This piece truly feels like a little ten-minute story with a beginning, middle, and end, with depth and breadth and nuance and surprises, despite not having a ton of pages in which to accomplish that.