Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

People are so quick to believe what they see on social media, and in this short, Jason exploits that and heightens it to high stakes (and hilarious) levels. This entertaining two-hander is also a cautionary tale about taking what you see and read on social media with a grain of salt. Very clever!

This is adorable. What a fun challenge for the actors (one carrying the whole play with his words, the other playing almost his entire part with wordless reactions). I love these two and their affirmations and the fact that they started eating cake early. Just a delightful piece.

What I like about this short play is it shows someone grappling with a problem, trying to decide what to do, and by the end, things are clearer, but far from resolved. It feels very true to life, this talking through a problem with a good friend who offers sound advice and helps figure out a plan of action. While on the surface this play is about a woman trying to figure out if she and her partner are too sexually incompatible to work, it's also a wonderful study on friendship as well.

I love Tom Moran's writing, and I love Biblically-inspired comedies, and this short play contains both! This play puts a clever spin on why some parts of the books of Moses are so baffling as well as why women deserve more of a seat at the table of religious authority. Plus it contains a delightful mash of modern and biblical language, like "Oh, comest thou on!" Great stuff!

I love this short piece. Women so often only see the flaws when they look in the mirror, and watching three reflections of Meg build her up for ten minutes from the dressing room mirrors left me all warm and fuzzy. This would be a great piece to be performed anywhere, but especially in high schools, where young women often take criticisms to heart and carry them on through life.

This play is bonkers hilarious. The very first line is "I'm cheating on my wife, and you're the only one who knows," and with that, we're off and running. It is so fantastically, unabashedly silly, while at the same time has some very real criticisms at its core about government and celebrity. The scene where Gwen makes her presentation to the board is perfection, and every word out of Nicholas's mouth is gold.

A murder mystery centering theater folks and the MeToo movement, this play is entertaining while also making some great points about what women put up with and why, as well as making the art you want to make versus making the art you think people want to consume. Geraldine was my favorite character, and there was something cathartic and wonderful in her response to the cop dismissing the idea that someone would have killed Trevor, when she let him know that she hated him and was glad he was dead. So much going on, and a murder mystery to boot!

I love this. I don't know how Mark Harvey Levine came up with this idea, but I love it. What a sweet play, and what an emotional rollercoaster for only five minutes! I'm glad it ends in a hopeful place, too. Lovely work!

This short play rockets along through the rise and fall of an oil town that existed for the briefest of times. The pace never slackens, giving the play an appropriate, frantic kind of energy. I googled Pithole after reading this, so I was entertained and learned some stuff too - a win/win!

What a great piece. Tyrell James somehow finds himself thrown backward in time to the American south in the 1830s, seeing firsthand how his ancestors lived. One part that really got me was Tyrell telling the enslaved couple hiding him that he dropped out of school, and how they couldn't get over that he had schooling available to him and cast it aside. In an America where history is being rewritten in many school curriculums, this play is more necessary than ever.