Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

  • Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend: Understudy Jesus

    Costumers are trying to hold the show together as their passion play approaches the dress rehearsal. I like that this play is about the theater, but also about losing and finding faith, and how theater can help make you whole again after tragedy. The dialogue is quick and funny, and I especially loved all the actors being referred to by only their characters' names.

    Costumers are trying to hold the show together as their passion play approaches the dress rehearsal. I like that this play is about the theater, but also about losing and finding faith, and how theater can help make you whole again after tragedy. The dialogue is quick and funny, and I especially loved all the actors being referred to by only their characters' names.

  • Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend: 8 Aunt Marys - a 1 minute monologue for a teen girl

    The teenage angst!! This monologue takes me back to those days of over-analyzing, spiraling out, and worrying yourself into an absolute state over what your boyfriend's radio silence means. It's exhausting - but Jackie is adorable. What a fun monologue for a teenage performer.

    The teenage angst!! This monologue takes me back to those days of over-analyzing, spiraling out, and worrying yourself into an absolute state over what your boyfriend's radio silence means. It's exhausting - but Jackie is adorable. What a fun monologue for a teenage performer.

  • Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend: Another True Ghost Story

    Oh my gosh, I would read a hundred of these. Just pop them like candy. A night of ghost stories, please. Christopher Soucy knows how to tell a story.

    Oh my gosh, I would read a hundred of these. Just pop them like candy. A night of ghost stories, please. Christopher Soucy knows how to tell a story.

  • Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend: A True Ghost Story

    I'm a sucker for a good ghost story (in the daytime). This one draws you in and holds your attention as more and more gets revealed about the ghost - and Dorothy. The use of a narrator makes it feel like you're being told a ghost story around a fire or at a sleepover or some other place where ghost stories are shared. Satisfyingly spooky!

    I'm a sucker for a good ghost story (in the daytime). This one draws you in and holds your attention as more and more gets revealed about the ghost - and Dorothy. The use of a narrator makes it feel like you're being told a ghost story around a fire or at a sleepover or some other place where ghost stories are shared. Satisfyingly spooky!

  • Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend: WHAT KIND OF A GOD 1-minute play

    I love this one-minute play. In just a minute, it conveys all the messiness and complications of an affair, why people engage in them, and why they can be so hard to end. It's hard to create flawed characters who are also sympathetic in just a little over one page, but Arianna Rose pulls it off.

    I love this one-minute play. In just a minute, it conveys all the messiness and complications of an affair, why people engage in them, and why they can be so hard to end. It's hard to create flawed characters who are also sympathetic in just a little over one page, but Arianna Rose pulls it off.

  • Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend: MARJORIE IS DEAD

    This play is a lot of fun. It's a good old-fashioned farce with fast, clever dialogue, misunderstandings, and lots of laughs. This would be a crowd-pleaser for sure.

    This play is a lot of fun. It's a good old-fashioned farce with fast, clever dialogue, misunderstandings, and lots of laughs. This would be a crowd-pleaser for sure.

  • Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend: Denier

    This play about a legitimate scientist getting pulled into the world of climate change denialism is scary because it's plausible. I really enjoyed watching Jillian get more and more tangled in the web, and I loved that science and its agenda-less pursuit were the heroes of the story. One character's line, "Nothing is as important as the truth, because everything else rests upon it," is a sentiment we need shouted from the rooftops today, as truth seems up for grabs even though, as Neil deGrasse Tyson said, science is true whether or not you believe in it. So timely.

    This play about a legitimate scientist getting pulled into the world of climate change denialism is scary because it's plausible. I really enjoyed watching Jillian get more and more tangled in the web, and I loved that science and its agenda-less pursuit were the heroes of the story. One character's line, "Nothing is as important as the truth, because everything else rests upon it," is a sentiment we need shouted from the rooftops today, as truth seems up for grabs even though, as Neil deGrasse Tyson said, science is true whether or not you believe in it. So timely.

  • Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend: Satan At Walmart (A Ten-Minute Play)

    This short play is delightful. The devil is summoned for some soul-selling, but he ends up disappointed by the lack of vision in the one who summoned him. It's clever, fun, and full of nicknames for Satan. If I saw this in a night of shorts, it would be the one I'd be telling friends about the next day. I love it!

    This short play is delightful. The devil is summoned for some soul-selling, but he ends up disappointed by the lack of vision in the one who summoned him. It's clever, fun, and full of nicknames for Satan. If I saw this in a night of shorts, it would be the one I'd be telling friends about the next day. I love it!

  • Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend: DINNER DATE 2020

    This short Zoom comedy has two fun roles for folks over 50 and a fun twist ending. I enjoyed watching this virtual first date heighten and heighten all the way to the reveal at the end. What a fun piece!

    This short Zoom comedy has two fun roles for folks over 50 and a fun twist ending. I enjoyed watching this virtual first date heighten and heighten all the way to the reveal at the end. What a fun piece!

  • Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend: Magnificent Hubba Hubba

    This play about aging women wrestlers getting their groove back is wonderful. It has two fabulous roles for older women - such a rarity! - and a great part for a teenage boy as well. I love that this story is carried by characters outside the typical age range of who anchors a show. It is funny, sad, surprising, and full of spectacle. I would love to see this staged!

    This play about aging women wrestlers getting their groove back is wonderful. It has two fabulous roles for older women - such a rarity! - and a great part for a teenage boy as well. I love that this story is carried by characters outside the typical age range of who anchors a show. It is funny, sad, surprising, and full of spectacle. I would love to see this staged!