Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

Oooh creepy! The horror in this short monologue play is found in the disconnect between Ellie's words/tone and her actions - and the actions of the ghosts trying desperately to send warnings. What a great role for female actor. There is little scarier than a chipper, smiling woman assuring you everything is wonderful when all your senses (and three ghosts) are telling you it's not.

I love how this play takes a big topic - the Easter Rising in Ireland - and distills it down into a small story about a few people who are participating and/or caught up in the events of the week. It does a great job humanizing the history books and showing how much people sacrificed, both intentionally and unintentionally.

This one act is fantastically bizarre! Iggy is not having a great day, to put it mildly, and no one who shows up improves the situation much - in fact, most are only going to make Iggy's day worse. I loved watching Iggy get more and more confused and upset, and the final moment is great.

This full length is a good play for our divided political moment, when we could all stand to sit in a healing circle and share where we're coming from. It tackles Christian hypocrisy, vaccine skepticism, and the breakdown of civility, among other topics we're grappling with today. We could use more people like Laurel and her friends out there these days.

Oh, poor George. Like any good farce, things become more and more chaotic as the stakes rise and rise for George as the play goes on. There are so many great moments of physical comedy in here, as well as hilarious lines and situations. I love how the pace never slows and you're left wondering how George will ever get himself out of this one.

Four woodland nymphs set out to make their first kill, but all is not what it seems. This short is a fun mix of silly and scary, of kisses and murder. It's fun how quickly the nymphs toggle between the two at times. I wouldn't want to cross them OR an ogre in the woods!

This play is a race against the clock to save a mosaic from floodwaters behind a new dam. I love the juxtaposition of the water covering everything and new artists covering old artwork with their own. I learned so much in such an engaging way from this piece! What a fabulous piece of theater!

I saw a reading of this a week (two weeks?) ago, and I have not stopped thinking about it. Vince Gatton's level of talent is offensive. All four of these characters are fully-formed and messy and questionable like real people, yet they also each have moments to shine and arcs and when all four of them are put together it makes a play that says so much so simply, and how did he do it??? A perfect play for this moment, when so much seems to be coming together to resist change all around us.

I WAS NOT PREPARED. It says it's a horror play, they are in a deserted cabin in the woods, and STILL I was not prepared. Aly does such a great job convincing you of one thing while all the while something else entirely is happening, and then you look back and see all the little breadcrumbs, but in the moment you're just like, "Wait, there are mushrooms that can walk? What?" And the ending. OOF. This is terrifying as much for what you learn as for what goes unanswered. MASTERCLASS.

What a fun concept! I love how what would be a feel-good play with one character as the protagonist is a tragedy with a different character as the protagonist. This is a great example how much can be done in one minute, if you do it right.