Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

What a rollercoaster of emotions this monologue is! The sailor describes a truly horrifying experience in a storm with a perfect, unexpected, comedic button at the end. This would be lots of fun to hear an audience react to and also lots of fun to perform.

Sweet, poignant, and true. You know that - if things go according to plan - you will outlive the dog, but you adopt the dog and take it home and love it forever and always anyhow, even though, ultimately, you can’t keep it. A beautiful one-minute play.

I love this. This autobiographical coming of age story told through the lens of Shakespeare plays Gina Femia studied in school is wonderful. It reads like poetry in places, contains truly heartbreaking stories, and has moments of real hilarity that snuck up and surprised me. What a perfect piece for theater majors in particular, as there is so much to relate to here.

I'm the target audience for a play about a little-known President of the United States, but this play is for everyone. It makes the politics of the 1850s easy to understand and makes them feel fresh and current - plus it's a GHOST STORY. There's a ghost - well, there's lots of ghosts - and they're driving Franklin Pierce absolutely insane. This is a compelling story about a man drowning in grief at a pivotal moment in U.S. history. The way lighting and the ensemble are used here is awesome. I would love to see this live.

This short about grief, faith, luck, and love is very sweet and amazingly constructed. For such a short play, there's a full arc as we see Matthew and Leah today, flash back to yesterday, and jump forward to tomorrow. I love how hopeful the play is, despite the subject matter. It definitely leaves you with a lot to thing about and carry away. Beautiful!

You will never forget this monologue. I don’t want to give anything away, but this has maybe the best opening line ever, a fantastic button at the end, and a whole lot of delightful “What is this? Why is this happening?” in the middle.

These dinosaurs are so poetic! It's easy to tell good from evil in this short - because the evil dinosaur is wearing a very sinister moustache. (And also a flowery lei. Just because you're bad doesn't mean you can't appreciate beauty.) SO MANY fun things happen in this 10 minute fever dream of a play, and there are a slew of opportunities for physical comedy. I want to see this one so badly.

Oooh this one-minute play gets creepier and creepier! Kids saying scary things is the best kind of horror.

I was lucky enough to see Northlight Theatre’s production of this, and it’s a fabulous play. I love how the action is periodically broken as Warhol and the Iranian revolutionary take turns speaking to the audience, and I especially love the message that art cannot exist separately from politics, that everything we do, every choice we make, is either working toward a more just world or complacent with the injustices around us, all over the world. (And that Americans need to remember they’re not the only people on the planet.) It’s wonderful.

Wow, this play is a wild ride! A coyote shows up one night on the fire escape of an apartment building, and it ends up completely changing the lives of two people who live there. This two-hander is so full of magic, so easy to stage, and has a message about our disappearing wild spaces as well. It's so thoroughly theatrical. I adore it.